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Eighty Five Poems - Poems about Eighty Five


Sarabande on reaching the age of eighty-five
Everything needs a rest- the machine - a mirror- an astronomical chart or graph- a sometimes glass?. Like the fun even though dynamo elsewhen or blue or black- glee elsewhere or G- clamp?. I tell you something is hither or thither elsewhere or how ...

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Categories: eighty five, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Micro Eighty Five
I could be persuaded to stay if you were persuaded to play me like you do that guitar…...

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Categories: eighty five, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Free verse



When I'M Eighty Five
When I’m eighty-five Once upon a time, when I was sixty-five my hair turned grey, bought hair dye. Blue rinsed looked like a stern teacher of the type of women doing good work among the poor. She said she loved me, remembered a song “when I’m sixty-five.” We are old, take our love for granted she calls me darling I call her...

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Categories: eighty five, absence, class, courage, creation,
Form: Sonnet
Reaching Eighty-Five
Reaching eighty-five All of a sudden I’m eighty-five and start remembering of things past and begin to think to relieve the burden for my children to bear I begin to think and stare. An introduction to the roll of hospice funeral arrangements, crypt for final justice mausoleum. plot,...

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Categories: eighty five, age, change, death, family,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Eighty Five Below
EIGHTY FIVE BELOW flapping and gliding underneath the Springtime clouds eighty-five below ~ humans hawking up pollen ...

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Categories: eighty five, bird, spring,
Form: Tanka




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