Fortieth Poems - Poems about Fortieth

...Life as a Rat Yes, every city is a labyrinthine cage woven from streets seen from celestial heights, but also – from the silken threads of your habits: The paths you follow, or avoid, the cafes ......

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...It was when I reached my fortieth birthday. Not so young, but, youthfulness ruled the day. I was known as an educationist, around, My intelligence and wisdom, they felt, was sound. Not many were ......

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...Paulette went on a holiday Visiting Italy and France To mark her fortieth birthday Paulette went on a holiday Saw the Arc de Triomphe today And adored Venice at first glance Paulette went on a ......

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...He dreamt of car races and our sunny California beaches. Of tanned women playing volleyball. Yes, all were within his vibrant reach. Porsche-mania, though was his all. Some talk endlessly of dream......

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...I spent my day shopping for Rubies And entered an old antique store The owner took me to the back of the shop Showed me a set and had me begging for more. The one that stole my heart was a deep......

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...There he is again The kid from next door At my window Making faces like before It wouldn’t bother me so much But I live on the fortieth floor......

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...It was Raymond Walker’s fortieth on a hot and humid eve, with high beer danger conditions, therefore I didn’t want to leave, and as the night wore on and after we had sung the birthday song, God o......

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... Who Would Have Thought It! Only Forty? By: Tom Wright 9/98 Our lives are like and opened book, from which we all read and learn. We must always take a serious look, before allowing......

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...Watch the sky Was the world wide cry And there will be a sign For a reckoning divine So for forty days and nights We watched and waited for the sign that might Be the calling to us on earth ......

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...Every daughter who turns forty Should get one of these A poem from her father Saying what he sees A home you're building That's warm, safe and kind What we'd all expect And hope to find ......

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...Translation of Eric Mottram’s “Fortieth Legal” by T. Wignesan (From: The Legal Poems. Colne: Pub. by Robert Bank at the Arrowspire Press, 1985, 39p. Here’s an extract from the blurb by Allen F......

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...Never did I meet a man so warm Full of live and a sunny smile Sweet like the Scottish cream The perfect gentleman Never did I meet a man so warm With simple gestures and classy acts Humble ye......

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...Starting with first I climbed Initial steps followed all blind Quicker I paced to find Fun and Frolic to bind Growing in body and mind Longing Life’s purpose, I grind Forty you turn thi......

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...Forty Days Astronomers time track a cycle of forty days Observe prayer and fasts for sacred forty days T......

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...For forty day and forty nights, you rode upon and Ark, Animals traveling, two by two waiting to disembark! As you peek out the porthole, at the sky’s overcast, In the distance, there is thunder an......

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