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Premium Member John F Kennedy - Martin Luther King Jr - Robert F Kennedy and Donald Duck
it was the sixties
we were young
we were going to change the world
spin it like a basketball on our finger
take the three point shot 
win the...

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Categories: sixteen, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: sixteen, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Debacle
* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sixteen, confusion, evil, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: sixteen, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mr. Truly Amazing
Sixteen years old and in a world of her own
Confined to life lived in a wheelchair
Ever since birth, doctors don’t know what went wrong
But, it...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sixteen, animals, inspirationalfamily, family, horse,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Choir Director
My choir director
                    is a painter
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sixteen, music,
Form: Free verse
Can You Hear Me Mama
Can you hear me, can you hear me Mama
                ...

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Categories: sixteen, how i feel, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
The Sun Is a Liar



It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed...

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Categories: sixteen, childhood,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Lego Narcs - Under the Cover of Night

Night! 
It’s around nine thirty 
maybe ten. 

The phone rings. 
The voice is irritating, the words frightening.

Within minutes I’m in a car with my mate....

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Categories: sixteen, abuse, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member She's Wet
I took her hand at sweet sixteen
Kissed her on the cheek
The clouds looked down
We were about to be drowned
No umbrellas to protect our dreams

I held...

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Categories: sixteen, beauty, creation, cute love,
Form: Light Verse
Crabby Old Man
This poem was written by an old man who died in the geriatric
Ward of a nursing home in North Platte, Neb.  He left nothing...

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Categories: sixteen, lifeme, heart, old, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Timeless Love
They met at first around sixteen,while they were in their teens.
A young man tall and handsome, a girl with many dreams.
Years later they did meet...

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Categories: sixteen, family, life, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evening's Come
The evening’s come.  Now close your eyes,
And gently drift into the night.
Release your soul from earthly ties;
The evening’s come.  Now close your eyes.
Move...

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Categories: sixteen, death
Form: Triolet
One In Four Women
Terror seizes you, and it isn't kind. 
 You try to go somewhere peaceful in your mind.
But the pain rips you right back to here...

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Categories: sixteen, angst, life, peace, sadme,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Michael Collins
It has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron...

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Categories: sixteen, england, ireland, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things