Best Thirty Two Poems

In Search of 50 Names(couplets alphabetized for ease of footnoting the names)

A) A tom cat sits in heather nearby a willow tree.
Rose and jasmine fill...

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I turn thirty-two years old today
and I have a wish to silently say
for a future that I hope to make
as I blow out the candles...

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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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(To open 10 years from today)
Dear Self,
I know you’re struggling with some really crazy things,
and the world is not the place you used to know.
Needless...

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It was a homeless old man near a shoe store who fell asleep 
He was so tired that nap turned to a sleep that was...

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The Devil wears Armani
By Steven Cooke

She was eighteen, I was thirty two
She was an unread poem,
I was yesterday’s gift.
Her heart she gave gladly,
Her beauty mine,...

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They stood and watched in horror
Their teacher was being burned alive.
Committed by what, they call themselves humans,
One hundred and thirty two children died.

What were they...

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If you go downtown early morning
You can see the shopkeepers setting
Old treasures on the sidewalk,
Writing their welcomes with chalk
On little standing blackboards,
Inviting you inside their...

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Many people have no clue 
Of the hell I go through
If they only knew
The pain and agony, too

Why do I say depression kills, age 14,
Twenty...

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One night I had a dream.  I heard a blood curdling scream.
It was death approaching me....
     Thirty-two years I've escaped...

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U-umph, Oof-fa ha!.... There, comfy now?
Hey, would you pick up your tush,
reach in here and pick up your wife's locket?
It's  down here under my...

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Two horses share the acre of pasture--
A proud Arabian, now a gelding,
Who sired seven stately champions, stands
Elegantly while I snap his picture.
The other one, a...

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There's nothing we can do, the doctor said!
     It was December, nineteen-seventy.
At once, those words exploded in my head
  ...

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She stands on cliff’s edge in her skimpiest nightie, not caring who sees.
Feeling her connection with the east wind which has always protected her.
The shale-like...

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It swept across our world at the start of this year
An invisible enemy that brought with it great fear
My government was concerned about the economy...

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