Stolen
...A withered hand,his body frail
Where once formidable strength
had been,
He still had a cast iron will,
but there was so much
that stroke had stolen
By: J.N.R Dutton...
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Categories:
dutton, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Mary
...Everybody called her Mary,her story is legendary in her small home town,
after a night of dancing,a drunk driver ran her down.
As she lay among the shattered glass,
Sweet Mary she breathed ...
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Categories:
dutton, dark, death, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Flowers
...She said "Bring my flowers now, while I'm living"
and man, that really struck a chord with me
Too many people wait, and bring flowers to the grave,
crying over what could have been, and m...
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Categories:
dutton, love, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Time to test,
...Its time at last..The furor'e is well past.' For those who fronted
Who shamed? And claimed the high ground? and spoke of a
Deaths knells blast.' Who trotted out (so called experts?) And ranted as w...
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Categories:
dutton, anniversary, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Anything You Need
...Jamie cussed the weather,
there was black ice on the road outside,
she told her husband
"If it doesn't get better
We're gonna freeze to death tonight"
The wind was howling louder th...
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Categories:
dutton, life, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Norma -A Story Poem-
...Norma was a little girl lost,
she came from a broken home.
Her mother was prone to madness,
fits of delusion,rage, and sadness.
Though her early life was a portrait of devastation,
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Categories:
dutton, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Love Oasis
...To me this is one of the best descriptions ever
of what love is like:
Like there’s a thirsty man in a desert thinking he may die
but then out of nowhere, what does he find?
An oasis runni...
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Categories:
dutton, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lost Years
...It's a sad state of affairs,
People habitually stuck with
noses in their phones
Before they know it, they are old,
and precious years,long lost, have flown
By:J.N.R Dutton...
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Categories:
dutton, addiction, poetry, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Lessons From Cory
...Cory swore off the needle,
did his best for a while
to keep his beasts at bay,
but @ thirty years old he gave in one more time,
and death quickly came to snatch him away
If you pla...
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Categories:
dutton, addiction, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Play Back
...If you could watch your life rewind
& then play back, what would you find?
Have you been a person through whom
light and Love shined?
By: J.N.R Dutton...
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Categories:
dutton, light, literature, love, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Once You Set A Poem Free
...Once you set a poem free,
it’s out for all the world to see
So make sure when you’re writing
That you’re giving your everything
This can never be said enough, I think,
Always strive to...
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Categories:
dutton, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The Ballad of Miss Dutton
...THE BALLAD OF MISS DUTTON
Little Miss Dutton,
Bright as a button
Sits with hands in her lap just so
Neat and petite,
Friendly and sweet,
With little girls all in a row
Quiet and demure,
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Categories:
dutton, life, lost,
Form: Rhyme