Twenties; A Degree with No Job
... Haha, must be funny,
How I had substantial dreams for my early 20s,
I believed I would have an excellent life!
With a good job,
And possibly even a hubby.
Now in my mid-20s,
No job an...
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Categories:
early 20s, confusion, education, money,
Form: Free verse
Decisions Made That Brought Destiny
...Now coming to three score years and ten
looking back on years now gone past
decisions made that brought destiny
then not knowing what would last
In leaving school cut off from friends
for I sa...
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Categories:
early 20s, destiny, me, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Wrapped
...It’s December, it’s foggy and rainy, but that fits. Of course, a rainy Saturday means gathering in the common room with my roommates and watching either “The Hunger Games” or “Twilight.” Leong’s neve...
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Categories:
early 20s, december, internet, music, school,
Form: Free verse
Olivia, Kate and Debbie - My Poster Girls
...Music has always influenced my mind
it was something way down inside
my musical girls I would see every night
full-size posters on bedroom, I could confide
Olivia Newton-John following on 'Coun...
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Categories:
early 20s, girl, memory, music,
Form: Rhyme
Learn Guitar My Son
...There was I in my early twenties
sitting bored on a Sunday afternoon
mu mum suggested, get a hobby
but being a loner was well out of tune
My mind was blank till mum said
learn guitar, my son, ...
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Categories:
early 20s, guitar, music, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Moon Glow Ride On Torch Lake
...Steering our boat across the moon glow
Like a fork stabbed through cream
We careen in the sheen of upside down light at 3:30 A.M.
The July night tries to close on us like a lid
The result of ...
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Categories:
early 20s, boat, freedom, good night,
Form: Free verse
Remember My Youth Compare It Now
...I lived in the early-mid 70s so very different
being a lonely soul not socially active
lived in the countryside with not a friend
didn't really mind it as made me selective
This was me living ...
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Categories:
early 20s, life, memory, teenage, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Couples Counseling
...My early 20s Eldest Black Lives Matter Son
wears his disabling ADHD label uncomfortably,
impatiently,
like a possibly self-redeeming crown
but with unfortunate MessiahComplex thorns
as the Great...
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Categories:
early 20s, earth, games, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
The Cry of a Young Girl
...Pave way for your younger brothers, this is the price i have to pay
as 13 year old, first born girl I have no say in my education welfare
my dad by now has already received my bride price
I wonder...
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Categories:
early 20s, africa, anger,
Form: ABC