Spring Cleaning in the Fall
Too Late to Catch the Ball
Under a Harvest Moon
Those Hungry Hearts will Swoon
Dancing 'Neath Amber Light
Dancing Free thru the Night
Everyone's at the Ball
I'm Spring Cleaning!...That's All?
Categories:
expired, dance,
Form: Rhyme
He is retired;
His duties with care he carried!
He appears wired
Remembering unfinished tasks –
Two daughters at home unmarried …
As his benefits are tarried,
He’s found expired!
Categories:
expired, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sunny smile, beanie baby
Drunk and fuzzy, oh so gone
Binge on uppers, feeling hazy
Won’t even answer your phone
When you take them you feel better
Like a bird or star, so free
If we cut open your center
There’ll be jewels for eyes to see
Milk turned sour, by the hour
Numbers stamped into your skin
Bloom and whither like a flower
Limbs in needles and in pins
Sucking on it like a candy
It stopped feeling like it’s fun
Some cheap , nothing too fancy
Makes all of your fingers numb
Choke a girl out, what a cop out
Cops on your ass, flying heels
Crawl back to him, ask for bailout
You don’t practice your ideals
You were youthful when you knew me
In our house you were the child
Now your body’s all mildewy
Didn’t know you’d go expired
Categories:
expired, addiction, drug, friend,
Form: Rhyme
my bucket list expired
I care not
nothing in it interests me
I have poetry, cartooning, dog-raising and painting
they are my go-tos now
I do not want to travel
I can see everyplace on the Discovery channel
I am more than satisfied
easily giving up river rafting
with my bad knee and worse ankles
jumping out of airplanes was never on my list
my bucket list has expired
I care not
Categories:
expired, me,
Form: Free verse
How I feel sometimes after giving my employer 100% and there's nothing left for home life
Categories:
expired, sad, work,
Form: Monoku
A few bones and the pelt are left,
buzzards took the rest.
No doubt, the stray
must have been weakened
by sickness.
The grass is very green around the remains,
a light dew refreshes vigorous blades,
the morning gleams.
If it had been summer
bugs would have swarmed the carcass already,
but on a fine day in November
the dead stand out,
clearly noticeable, impressed distinctly,
upon the land
by bright blue skies.
Categories:
expired, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Written: September 12, 2023
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Sunsets Paint the Sky
Embracing flames of loved ones~
Memories aglow.
Shared dawning vibrant
Now distant, yet remembered~
Love never fades out
Sultry afternoons,
zest height turns to modest warmth~
Winter's smooth embrace
Awaiting midnight
Living among sunsets' glow~
Embrace memories
Categories:
expired, age, analogy, appreciation, change,
Form: Haiku
My emptied path
in your absence
my love time expired
Categories:
expired, love, time,
Form: Light Verse
Times have changed at such a fast rate
With technology I don’t understand
I feel like an alien in my own world
Im so completely out of date!
Oh, for the simple days of little frustration
When the t.v had four channels and it was free
You had to physically turn the t.v knob
Disputing who’s turn it was to get up and change the station
When the family phone was attached to a wall
For the whole family to use
It was big ,clunky with a rotary dial
And all it could do was call
When a camera was used to take photos
That had a film roll inside
To take to the chemist to get developed
In either “matt or gloss” to pick up in a week or so
When correspondence was hand written or typed
Enclosed in an envelope with stamp then mailed
Music was played on a record player or radio
Dishes were hand washed and wiped
Now it’s all computerised
With passwords and codes
Beeping, flashing and telling you NO
Kept in clouds in the sky!!
I know technology and progress are a need
And one has to move with the times
There are so many positives and benefits
But I miss those uncomplicated , simple days indeed!
Categories:
expired, change, confusion, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Knowledge Perishes
Formed and found by soul's effort
And then Forgotten
Categories:
expired, age,
Form: Haiku
More chapters
Another journey to fulfill
Life's expectations
Forwarded
The time has expired
There's more ahead
Destiny as said
Life to live on
Give.
Old chapters in times have expired
Time for another journey
The past was then
Future goals ahead
As one being led
Beginning, to the end.
Categories:
expired, adventure, beautiful, career, change,
Form: Free verse
memory retired
died while it expired
using grew tired
Categories:
expired, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
They say you are done, you can’t have any fun
They say you are old, so do as you are told
They say start praying, it goes without saying
You are a wife and a mother, that’s it none other
Raise your kids right, make their future bright
How you feel doesn’t matter, now go clean that splatter
Act your age, do not show your rage
Let your dreams die, cry in the dark if you must cry
Your life is your family, why is that such a mystery?
A woman has an expiry date, after that she must wait
Life goes on except yours is almost all done
These thoughts that plague you, will only break you
Better make your peace and this pain will cease
Follow the rules, follow convention
Any other thought is not worth a mention
They say it's true there is nothing here for you
So, let it be, just let it be!
Categories:
expired, endurance, introspection, life, woman,
Form: Free verse
Seasons go and come
sometimes in a lifetime, a chapter has ended
trying to go on from day to day
another way was made
renewal and a turn in life thereafter
sometimes for the best
leaving the past and the rest
time expired
life has a newer beginning
a destiny pursued
life's renewal
time for another journey
another chapter in the book to begin.
Categories:
expired, books, break up, desire,
Form: Free verse
~ The years have treated me nicely ... I can not complain ~
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~ Aging is something that should not be feared ~
- but tastes bad
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~ The dessert of life ~
No thanks, I'm on diet
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30.04.2018
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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Categories:
expired, age, humor,
Form: Light Verse
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