The Fifty-Seven Firestorm
They met back in school when perms were in style..
Now they’re fifty-seven and wickedly wild.
A sisterhood forged in detention and pranks..
Now fueled by cocktails and cackles and tanks.
Derani and Adrianne? Soulmates for sure..
Joined at the hip and bonded by lore.
They gossip, they giggle, they drink in sync..
And dare you to challenge
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Categories:
fifty seven, friendship, fun, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Micro Fifty Seven
To choose you over everything all the time?
They call me insane. I call it.. love.
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Categories:
fifty seven, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Fifty Seven
What can you do well
with a broken leg there's time
for work-life balance
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Categories:
fifty seven, allusion, irony, memory, remember,
Form: Haiku
Fifty-Seven Years Ago Today
Fifty-Seven Years Ago Today
With new dress and suit, flowers, and hair fixed just right
The dreams, plans, and labors of our lives would unite
My brother and his gal stood beside us on the spot
To give witness to the world that we tied the knot
We stood nervous before the preacher at his home
Promised to cling to each
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Categories:
fifty seven, anniversary, boyfriend, dad, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
The Fifty-Seven Brand
Through darkness three sons rode the land—
The father fallen like a tree—
They feared the fifty-seven brand.
That death mark made each one a man—
Age fifty-seven he died free—
Through darkness three sons rode the land.
Those years went by like snaking sand,
Their father’s death a memory—
They feared the fifty-seven brand.
As each year dappled face and hand,
His age at
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Categories:
fifty seven, angst, cowboy-western, death, father,
Form: Cowboy Poetry