Best Wiser Poems

What would the future, wiser me
The lonely widow I'm sure to be
Say to me, today

How precious, his baritone groan
To muted ears left all alone
Once he's flown away

Life's rivers drain abruptly swift
So recognize this timeless gift
Let this moment - stay

6/10/20

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palindromes

A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
Teenager Rex brought a can of soda;
he shook it up hard and then pulled the tab.
But Rex was too slow for their choc'late lab.

Cain: a maniac, the brown dog's head swelled,
confused by the fizz but a rat he had...

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****** WITHERED BUT WISER ******

              Older becomes withered, but hopefully wiser...
           Thinning skin becomes invisibly thicker, tougher...
     ...

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Older does not necessarily 
equate to wiser -- but wiser
can often make one seem a lot
older; in fact, robbed of youth
by poverty and war, I have
sadly met, too many premature
ancients: -- cynicism 
in their eyes; where
should reside bright, hopeful
gleams -- dreams, obliterated,
man's faux surface designs...

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Caught up in your words of sincerity
Closest of friends, we shared from our hearts
Twisting the truth was your reality.

A wounded soul, you craved security
I wanted to help you, to do my part
Caught up in your words of sincerity.

You shared past hurts, had a sad history
It...

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Dry wit
dampens the past
water under my bridge...

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I once had everything 
too much in fact 
confidence surging
until it told me that
I was wiser than the miser 
so I thought to be so
the flaw of my empire
was I couldn't let go 
of thinking people 
can be taken at word
it took losing everything 
for...

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The song will spin and rake and weave
Night draws a warm, inviting sleeve  
He walks along the water's crest 
And picks the leaves that he likes best 

How certain are the lovely girls 
The calloused hands of aging earls 
A locket with a bit...

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To tell you this I have to go way back to a time when I was all about me and to young to admit knowing wrong from right and with that said. I go back to the age of 
19 to 20. when I used...

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Watch and listen, learn, then talk
Wriggle crawl, then start to walk
ingesting knowledge, form ideas
discover pathways through the maze
fully formed then take your stand
unique among your fellow man
using wisdom air your views
be prepared for bad reviews
attend and hear what others say
Adjust, adapt and make your play
Many...

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Older and Wiser

With muscle and sinew we fight and rage
To stay the creature that steals youth so fast
And beat the long winded culprit of age
Paying to look as we did in the past

Armed with knife, dye and gym we wage our war,
Hair club come forward...

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The older wiser spider, now faster than the storm,

found his way inside and at last was dry and warm 

but he strolled to his demise when he passed me in my room, 

for the older...

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a knowledge miser
when he had become wiser
now a supervisor

what we did intend
much money to them will lend
all of it can spend

price gains and gains
from all of our money drains
price high still remains

more oil can create
high price will eradicate
how to educate

great start made to stitch
are not...

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She got a bad rap for she was a blond
But this one couldn't be fooled or conned

He claimed he loved her and she believed
Till she found out she was being deceived

She caught him there with his pants down
He'd taken her for an inept clown

Cheating was...

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Far wiser than philosophers
are writings penned by our
ambassadors of Laugh ~ our men
and women esteemed for
Comical Gaff – Let's float our 
politicians such raft; let's give our 
academics such draft: far less feces 
would enrich every thesis....

I've been helped more by humor
than any aspirin or...

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