Best Teenaged Poems

..."OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
      cast of characters:
      Julius Caesar
      A Roman Teenaged Kid
      A Roman Guard
      Brutus
      A bunch of Caesars Gir......

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...When we were nine
and yearning, outcasted
I did not understand the bruised
nature of your soul. Perhaps I
do not understand even now.
I remember
how I criticized you for the way 
you sang "Twi......

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...What made you so special my freckle faced friend..
the day I heard you singing to a record, from your window next door.
Bell bottom clad teenaged knock out, with a ballerina's step..     
In huge ......

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...children's laughter
 on the beach. . . 
storm clouds gather

  My husband, I, and our two teenaged children are enjoying a picnic when we feel slow heavy droplets that develop quickly into an ass......

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...To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
Such seems your beauty still. 
~ William Shakespeare


I have looked into the mirror
Looking for a trace..........

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...A song by the Allman Brothers, titled Melissa, I was, hearing Sweet Mellisa over and over, while writing this.
 The Story begins as a teenaged College student is informed by her Doctor that she is p......

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...Once, I’d stood beside a man
Who, with heart and soul o’erwrought, 
Silently searched for answers, but answers found him not. 
His sister recently had passed from Earthly life to next,
And left h......

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...
No nylon nets
on the basketball rims
No evening street lights
as the day grows dim

More bad news
when I hit the front door
More funeral flowers
for the cemetery garden dirt floor

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...The Highwaymen softly play
Me And Bobby Magee
And for the next four hours 
Every single drink is free.
Order what you like friend
And stick it on the slate
Tonight we’re saying goodbye
To my b......

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...In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow deli......

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...XMAS EVE 1961

Five teenaged lads late on Christmas Eve,
quit playing cards and took their leave.
Got into a car and off we drove
to a hamburger joint with a greasy stove.

After a bowl of chi......

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...A single golden light 
Danced through the frame,
And spangled out of the dark house
As snow spun downward 
Into the abyss of the night.
A man trembled inside
Shaking his head in pain.
Tears grew off ......

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..."He made a difference."

Gramps, my mother's father --
Dave Luke -- my grandfather, 
a tall unlettered white (decidedly white) 
Louisiana man -- was born August 1887.  
He lived 87 years.  He g......

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...A scientist gamma radiologist
trying to make the world
A little better, yet
When engaging in testing in a Nevada dessert
A teenaged boy loitering got caught in the testing blast
Out of the bunke......

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..."OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
(Or: Rules Are Written By Idiots, Followed by Fools)
                      by Ron Arbuthnot
      cast of characters:
      Julius Caesa......

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