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Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: sixty, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Love Has Its Costs
THIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...

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Categories: sixty, desire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Interpretation of If By Rudyard Kipling
MY INTERPRETATION OF IF BY RUDYARD KIPLING -  

If you can keep calm when all around you,
Are frustrated, and angry with you,
Always believe in...

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Categories: sixty, poets,
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: sixty, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I, the Clone
I, The Clone

     So that I would not live alone,
     My parents thought I should be a...

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Categories: sixty, humorous, me, satire,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Bury Me In My Jeans
"I've rode the range now fer nigh on sixty years,
Brandin' dogies and ropin' them wily Hereford steers.
When I come to the end of the trail,...

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Categories: sixty, me, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oops - Please Join In the Collaboration
Sue dated an old bloke called Darren
He said surgery'd made him barren
But one errant sperm
Escaped from his ‘worm’
Now Sue’s had a baby named Sharon!

05~24~17

WRITTEN BY...

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Categories: sixty, baby, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Paintings Call My Name
My art delights me, covers my walls.
Smiling, dancing, laughing magical beings.
Reminding me how much I love to choose colors.
Appreciated by no one as much as...

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Categories: sixty, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Book of Books
A book comprised of sixty-six,
with content of a unique mix.
Though found in almost every home,
It’s very much an unread tome.

The authors were a motley crew,
Into...

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Categories: sixty, allusion, bible, christian, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
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: sixty, abuse, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Grandma's Hand Sewn Quilt
When the auctioneer first shows it,
I feel a sudden piercing shock.
My grandma's hand-sewn antique quilt
Is on the auction block.
It is the lovely basket pattern
And her...

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Categories: sixty, age, grandmother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member You'Re My Inspiration - Dedicated To My Amazing Mum
How do I begin to describe you
Such an incredible person 
Yet even now you doubt your abilities
You lost your own mum when you were eight...

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Categories: sixty, mother, mum, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angel
back in sixty-nine
awed by Victoria Station
my first trip abroad

she came up to me
old, frail and helpless looking
struggling with her case

woman in distress
hesitant, asking for help
disorientated

her...

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Categories: sixty, angel,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Town He Once Called Home
Like a beacon on a hill
The white church steeple gleaming still
For all the many years gone past
It marks the path for home at last

Up and...

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Categories: sixty, childhood, home, nostalgia, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At Age Ten
On this October's mild stirrings
I watched ached nights flicker, to glow 
Around his hair like angel wings
Recalling joyrides... so mellow.
That in hushed tones,I called Gramps'...

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Categories: sixty, age, devotion, grandfather,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs