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Premium Member Reflections On My Seventieth Birthday

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                            Marked by seven decades on land and sea,
                           my asymmetrical soul always out of place.
                       ......

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Categories: trying on, birthday, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme

The Aging Process

...Many years ago, when we were all young,
We really thought life, would be so much fun.
While playing dress-up, trying on mom’s stuff,
Putting on make-up, we found to be tough.

Then came our schooling......

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Categories: trying on, age, childhood, children, daughter,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Summer of Crazy

...I still have that letter somewhere.
You made me promise to not tell anyone you wrote it.
So I kept that promise,
I kept it for thirty years.
I’m kinda thinking it’s long enough.

Why was I attr......

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Categories: trying on, adventure, break up, emotions,
Form: Prose

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Premium Member The Prismatic Self

...Spelling, syllable count, vanity, too simple, Simon! Be prolific, cruel, smart, up to par, above the bar, fit for the stage. Tap, tap, tap…
—by poet

The Prismatic Self

See the ......

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Categories: trying on, angst, confidence, introspection, writing,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member The Other

...It is always there,
never quite within range
where the mind can snare
some shadowy form, or shape
an outline and hold it long enough 
to name. 
It waits for the sun to go down 
and the evening......

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Categories: trying on, eve, self,
Form: Free verse

Ode To My Daughter On Her Birthday - 26

...My Sarah
When I looked at you last week trying on your new boots
Those almond eyes sparkling at something new, a gift
I saw my little pink girl, a princess, playing dress up again
Your long hair ......

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© Eiken Laan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trying on, childhood, daughter, devotion, family,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member The Birthday Party

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     It was my seventh birthday party, mother had everything planned,
Decorations were in the dining room, invitations sent out, balloons;
          And on February first, I was going to have......

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Categories: trying on, birthday,
Form: Narrative

Premium Member The Choices We Make In Life

...Oh if I could go back in time.
The choices, I would change.

The going on a blind date and regretting it ones.
The just one more drink ones.
The wrong Christmas present ones. 
The going over th......

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Categories: trying on, humorous, philosophy, new years
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Busting My Zip

...Getting ready to go to the big school
Was such a worrying thing
I heard grim tales of bullies
The teachers and the cane
And when I saw the savages
Get of the bus and fight
The worry almost drov......

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trying on, childhood, clothes, education, funny,
Form: Free verse

What Is Sexy

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                                          Sexy is Delicate in Definition
                                   Ranging in Geography or all life positions
                  From going to Mexi......

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Categories: trying on, love, water, water,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Happy Mother's Day

...To you whom gave me life, 
Rocked and sang,  sweet melodies lullabies
By night, and cradled me safe and warm,
Within a mother's loving, and tender embrace.
Taught an awkward child, to take her
F......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trying on, beautiful, family, international, love,
Form: Free verse

When I Look Into Her Eyes

...Every time I'm feeling down, or feeling so blue
As if there's nothing I can do
My spirits always seem to rise
When I Look Into Her Eyes

I'm new at this, this game of love, but got no shame
Get excit......

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Categories: trying on, angel, angst, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Romanticism

The Reconciliation

...The reason we must find ourselves
Is because somewhere along the way it was lost
Misplaced on childhood’s dusty shelves
Heedlessly forgotten, carelessly tossed

Countless discarded costumes and ......

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Categories: trying on, childhood, life,
Form:

If I Was Leonard Nimoy

...If I was Leonard Nimoy I would rush about the place, 
I would hold my long pointy fingers in front of me as I sprang from door to door,
My pointy boots deftly propelling me from shadow to shadow my p......

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Categories: trying on, humorous, people, me, people,
Form: Ode

A Mother's Reward

...A shoulder to cry on and a hand to hold
Someone to take care of me when I am old
A smiling face to greet me each day
Breakfast in bed brought on a tray
Birthdays and Mother’s Day never forgotten
......

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Categories: trying on, daughter, family, me, me,
Form: Couplet
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