Best Twenty One Poems

Twenty One


So far above, you’ve been flying high with the angels
And still you stand so far above us.
You are amazing to me, when you speak about your problems 
And those things you wish you could have changed; such pain.
Impossible not to like you when all...

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Snow storm in springtime
Silhouette of a stark tree
It's a winters tale...

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When first they're born, they learn, they grow;
They change each day and need us so.
Still infants in their wants and ways:
Beguile, enthrall, begin to age.
 
The winsome years are one through three.
Our heart is theirs and just may be; 
We will survive and make it...

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so you say
your turning
twenty-one years old
today

Hootie Hoo!
happy birthday

and you want
some advice
on the game
of life
so you don't
get played

okay! baby
you know
you just came
to the wrong
place?

so this is the
first thang
i would say

been over
touch your
knees

because
your about
to take
a real spanking

life isn't what
you may think

you'll reach up
you'll get knock down
and sometimes
you...

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Poem Number Twenty-One Hundred
A true man of rhyme born and bred
Started quite late
Guess it was fate
Eventually my fire needed to be fed


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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There was a cake with twenty-one candles
Waiting for a match to make them hot
But his friends first took him to the neighborhood bar
To feed him his twenty-one shots

That cake with the twenty-one candles
Held a light that would never be shown
For they forgot to designate a...

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Your twice broken leg
recites modern poetry
alongside crutches...

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Twenty-one Scenes Of Life And Poetic Thoughts

That Resplendent Scene

winter white landscape
frozen limbs on ancient trees
old snowshoes ready

Robert J. Lindley,
Haiku, 12-08-2015

Fleeing Visions

dark shadows, death waits
sun burst upon bright new dawn
moonlight on lake shore

Robert J. Lindley,
Haiku, 7-09- 2017

Beautiful

two dogs fast asleep
clouds in a dark stormy sky
dawn's breeze...

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Shake off the dust of those twenty-one years.
The dawn of a new age makes it's way.
Let the light burn through darkest fears.

Coming of age holds no victory, it appears;
It only holds powerful young souls at bay.
Shake off the dust of those twenty-one years.

The clouds make...

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And then....
she turned twenty one.
Moments in time flash through my mind
since she became mine.

Like a little pixie
spreading fairy dust.
Bursting with love and happiness.
Tumbling curls framing her smile.

All the while
in tune with one another.
Sleeping side by side or miles away.
In each other's thoughts.

And deeds.
Similar habits and...

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Beauty is asleep
innocence  dead,
grace..passe-
ego
rules...

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Twenty One years later…

Twenty one years, together we’ve stayed
For our mistakes, our children have paid.
You chose to leave, twenty years ago
“There’s no one else”, for you told me so.	

Later I found, that there had been five
Over the road, the truck you would drive.
Booze played a...

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there are twenty-one in you 
twenty-one lives of Tara 
twenty-one magical flames 
twenty-one harmonies of love 
twenty-one erotic lights 
to painting desire by desire 
meditating on the art of glamor...

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A good time to introspect did I felt
Twenty one gave new aspirations
A time to move out from pamper shell
Show to the world I do exist on my own
Planning and moving with a sketch
Stroke sudden threw it all from me
Senses lost for days and months
Time elapsed...

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Merlin's wand brushes the sky,
As the sun rises with a groan.
The caw of crows are harbingers
Of brightening days tomorrow.
Full rightly is the special one
Seated upon the Stone of Scone.
Prayers bring full circle ancestors, 
Whose Book of Charms they borrow.
     In four...

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