Best Twenty Nine Poems

Foot on the gas
No time to slow down

Paddling harder
Not wanting to drown

Reaching for oxygen 
Atmosphere's thinner

Still in the race
Eat the dust of the winner 

Adventure not waining
For some skiing off piste

Soulful confessions?
Time to contact a priest

There's life in the old dog
Though the snow on the...

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"He is brave and a warrior fine--
In a stroke, killed twenty-nine!"
Thus went word from town to town,
Only to come back around...
"A better man there be none,
Seekest thou a finer one?"

Crept-in a common sight of doubt:
Who's it they talk about...?

"'tis the Tailor from this land--
He hath...

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Twenty-nine words to write my story
Twenty-nine words is all I’ve got
Twenty-nine words is my limit
Twenty-nine words, then I'm through 

Twenty-nine words to write my poem
I’ve got to get started
Twenty-nine words is not too many
Many words have parted already 

Twenty-nine words to write my rhyme
Twenty-nine words...

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Our Twenty-Nine
©2012 C. Brent Cloyd

You have been my darling for twenty-nine
Traveling state to state, place to place
My partner, my lover, my valentine.

We’ve had and held on in good times or bad
We’re not rich, nor poor, but our house is full
You have been my darling for...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Nine

“Sire!” cried a lame yea-sayer: “I know this mad hookah addict!”
“Then drag him here by the scruff of neck be it hook or by trick!
But first when thou seest him Jap-slap him before and after!”
The unfortunate crony jerked...

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Some days I just loathe
this rigid cast that robs me
steals what's best of you...

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Through paper thin doors,
Seep the colours of my twenty nine skins,
Hanging from mismatched wire shoulders.

On one side are the statues,
Full circled, halter neck statues,
With shiny black plastic eyes,
That warn me not to touch.

Their colours catch me like wasp fur,
I am terrified by their beautiful boldness.

Glistening...

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O' Lord i pray the biggest gift
as Thou hath promised in the Book of Psalms;
grant me abundance, that'll bridged the rift
O' heal my wounds, with Thy holy balm.

Thou saith "but i am poor and sorrowful,"
adding, "O God, set me up on high,"
my current state change...

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Twenty-nine cavities
My dentist said,
Gleefully twenty-nine times
Twenty-nine novacaines
Fun as twenty-nine
Parking fines
Half as many root-canals
Half as many frightening dreams
Half as many muffled
Dental equiptment blocked screams

Twenty nine appointments
To dread twenty nine days
Twenty-nine times to stumble out,
In twenty-nine a dental haze...

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This story goes as follows back when I was 19 a hot boy 
my vision it was hollow she was 17 the sweetest girl that I 
ever met, we wrote each other poetry but she never knew 
the real me or rather the me who...

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M-orning March twenty-nine 
A-ims to meet the dawn; 
R-ed ray early Wednesday 
I-s rising above the horizon. 
A-fter the twilight ends, 
N-ew dawn has broken; 
E-vening shadows disappear, under the blue heaven. 

M-orning March twenty-nine 
O-pens the day with light; 
L-et the night moon turn...

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Every place I travel is too small for my thoughts....

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Today's my birthday
What have i done with life?
Why am i here alone?
Nobody's wife

Am I so fussy
Looking for what's right
Or am I too busy
Maybe i put up a fight

Looks  are not important
Money is just greed
Its whats inside them
Love is all i need

Loyalty also
That is a must
Somewhere...

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