Best Seventy Seven Poems

This self evident truth that all men are created equal ?
Never quite able as to escape these questions which arrive
Time's comical in ludicrous exposes: today as yesterday imagining
Her high courts turning unto a constitution defining something or another....
Ever evolving his living breathing documents cross fire...

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Seventy Seven
Written: by Tom Wright
1/15/2016


77 Feels Like, 
Going From Fine China 
To Styrofoam Cups and Paper Plates;

The gourmet meals, life formerly volunteered,
Have vanished from the menu, leaving unexhausted items 
I’m found without appetency for.
C/enter>...

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Seventy Seven
Written: by Tom Wright
1/15/2016


77 Feels Like, 
Going From Fine China 
To Styrofoam Cups and Paper Plates;

The gourmet meals, life formerly volunteered,
Have vanished from the menu, leaving unexhausted items 
I’m found without appetency for.
...

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Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945

Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today
August 6th, 2022, our collective ability
to lay waste major metropolitan areas
would make unleashing atomic warfare
synonymous with the ways and means
to annihilate, decimate, eliminate, et cetera
avast swath of the biosphere, nevertheless...

Once again, I...

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“Seven Times seventy Seven”
Locked inside a room behind a wooden door;
A young man is imprisoned there; who will be free no more.
   You can often hear him screaming; behind the walls so thick;
   And you may often hear the clicking, as...

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"Offer this to Me, your "everything" please child?" 

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What? 

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"Your "everything?" 

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My "all" You mean? 

Well Lord this is going to take some doing, I've tried and have kept trying to apply myself apart from this? 

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"Who other than Myself, can...

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Three score and ten
years have gone by.
Where did they go?
Where did they fly?

Old friends are fewer.
New friends are more.
Not counting.
I no longer score.

Seven years later
2 brothers are dead
Posterety has doubled
Are we getting aheqd?...

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Knowing that you changed me 
was the biggest crisis of all....

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Seventy-Seven

The faster you go
The rounder you get
And time flies on by
On the wings of a jet
The birthdays pile up
Like old dreams on the table
I’ll check em’ all out just
As soon as I’m able
It’s fun to reflect on 
things back in the day
When I was much...

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