Best Twenty Six Poems

I’m 26. Gone to old, faded in bold
How do I start my story?
My predicament ignites in fury
Too busy making money
Tell me if cash ever makes you happy?

Where do I find my passion?
I need something to forget oblivion
I’m too scared to miss out
Call me trigger happy,...

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

Soon all the rooms at trysting hotel were for years booked through
By pilgrims from Mindanao and Minangkabau to Timbuktu
Saudi princes bought the hotels at Carrefour de Pompadour
Kings of Malaysia with retinues planned long séjours

Sea Anne-Anne’s “broken news” chartered...

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Add toenail polish
when your broken leg demands 
self esteem and praise...

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Twenty-six came fast... Possibilities
close in by the hundreds, as if they were marching
to the sound of a choke-hold.
Pressure's a good thing
when it has us make something
beautiful, or something hot.
Stardom, creation, art, 
invention, love, whatever...

Those are something.

But twenty-six years
don't guarantee illumination-
that a step forward won't be...

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Twenty six lights that will shine no more,
The senseless violence we cannot endure.
Twenty six acts to show that you understand,
Divided we fall yet united we stand.

Twenty six people who will no longer be,
Despite the wounds compassion we see.
Twenty six smiles that were taken away,
People carry...

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Twenty-six doctors
At my door                (I gotta get rid of this darn door!!!!)
With twenty-six diagnosis,
And then, twenty-six more...

Twenty-six pills
For twenty-six ills,
My voice startin' to change,
I sound like Beverly Sills!

Think I'm more...

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Three years ago today a group of 14- to 17-year-olds attending Texas Cheer Camp in Austin decided to see how many girls they could squeeze into the elevator

Twenty-six girls thought they would all fit within
Twenty-six girls both the fat and the thin
Twenty-six girls and there...

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There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.
They haven’t added any others as of yet.
Consider yourself lucky today
if your name begins with the letter “A”
In alphabetical order, you are one of the first in line.
My name begins with “P”.  You are well ahead of...

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Just like the cat in the hat,
I have twenty six plans when I go out to bat,
Now what do you think of that.

You can keep all your heavy readings,
It was my childhood dreaming's,
And an adult's simple musing's
That gave me twenty six understanding's
For twenty six different...

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Funeral of a street boy from Lawrence Kansas.
Handsome lad, bi-polar, twenty-six and a half.
Dressed like a bobsled team with fake heads some days.
His mother refused to renew his motorcycle license.
This led to his death.

He feared the police would ticket him 
Worse yet, confiscate his motorcycle
Because...

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I don’t need to think about you, about us,
Mom, you stayed in my heart that reads, 
You’re still a rose, a sugar strawberry,
You walk with me on this winding road,

You’re in the house, in the white flower,
You are in the sky that changes my heart,
You’re...

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Cantos Uno  Obsessive Eclipse Octavia
Israel  is like a mote on mankind’s face 
Born on May 14 1948 ,
A host of problems a bloody disgrace 
I see two  eclipses to change it’s fate,
A lunar eclipse Sept 7  next year
 A rotten tepid...

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Threw the process its a process, step by step but 
regardless of how high my standards looked it was you 
who I selected, I am second yeah I'll put you first no 
hesitation I might be a wretched mess but you're half 
past amazing, the...

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day twenty-six 

Today is the day after people are tired
And the toilets on the first floor of the building
Were blocked and had taken a heavy load
The silence is eerily; a man on the fifth floor
 lets out air from his
Interior followed by giggling
What do I...

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Am I your Muse or are you mine ?
Perhaps it doesn’t matter,
we consume each other’s flame....

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