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Fifty Three Poems - Poems about Fifty Three


Fifty-three for fifty-two
You have been running around the world looking for a diamond girl; You have been running around the world making unfair investment and driving the interest right up to heaven. You have stolen the gold from off shore and bury it beneath the dirt; you have crossed the line and interfere with the divine....

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Categories: fifty three, change, community, courage, education,
Form: Prose
Today Im Fifty Three
Gentlemen, I’m fifty-three! “Now, can I still climb a tree? Atop tree raise hands with glee Repeating “Atop thee, Gee!”? An Apt Gift for this Birthday! Yet, for biggest cash I pray: A bad left ear should not stay; Heard sounds with the left just stray… Perhaps, I’ll try dwarfish tree For ascent with bones not free: Taut muscles that don’t agree About adjustable knee… I’ve kept...

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Categories: fifty three, age, allusion, celebration, humanity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fifty-Three Souls
The rig rolled through Laredo On the road to San Antone, Its eighteen wheels of commerce Headed north from parts unknown. The shipping costs all paid to Their coyote chaperones. The plan was clear in concept, But the method imprecise. If not the dehydration, Suffocation would suffice; The Black Hole of Calcutta Brought to Texas for a price. This third verse offers balance, But provides no peace...

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Categories: fifty three, allegory, america, anger, immigration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Micro Fifty Three
Command the room with your energy and you won’t need a loud voice ....

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Categories: fifty three, angel, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fifty-Three
fifty-three year old pear tree.... new buds appear ...

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Categories: fifty three, family, nature,
Form: Haiku



Fifty Three
You wish a friend luck Affirming "do break a leg" shows love not sarcasm...

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Categories: fifty three, allusion, friend, friendship, inspiration,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Fifty-Three Shades of Grey
in the uncoloured tint of another everyday amongst the spit polished waxed apples tightly packed in burlap bags they walked like minded in their own burly wrap oblivious to the irony to their similarity of the markets round red fruit unaware of the tragedy the horror of events yet to come it will rain metal shrapnel as human minds grasp with the purpose of their existence as...

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Categories: fifty three, child, community, conflict, dad,
Form: Free verse
Fifty-Three Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents
I've got fifty-three dollars and forty-nine cents And I'm aiming on spending it all I drove in my car To this dive of a bar And I'm planning on hearing "last call" Mr. Bartender, please You're the one who now sees How much I''m in need of a drink I came here to forget I don't want to regret And I would like to know...

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Categories: fifty three, cowboy-western, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, me,
Form: Rhyme

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