Forty Nine Poems - Poems about Forty Nine

..."Who will believe a mountebank? Everyone if she is good." ~Andy Griffith~ Carefully she wrote on the back of a fifty dollar bill. ”Have a happy birthday dear, I know you will” After writing th......Read the rest...

...What is that creature who lingers on the ’49 Ford? Asked Boss Hog. We looked but were not sure until we saw the sniffing junk yard dog. The red car with rust? The bookkeeper asked, wondering too. ......Read the rest...

...The Symbolic Life Nine years old And picking candy Off the shelf at Woolworth. Two Tootsie rolls, and A Rolo, then a bite off of A wax bottle filled with sugar. Forty nine years old, And ......Read the rest...

...It seems that the truth is never quite square it’s just a bit catywampus you see All about the way that the cowboys lived back in them old westerns on our TV Them outlaws and sheriffs had old s......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Had I not known I was already dead I might have mourned my own passing. —Ota Dokan, loose transla......Read the rest...

...Crossroads A man stumbled into the light from the darkness up ahead, He claimed that he could play guitar just like the devil said. The sky opened up and cried while the man played away, As ......Read the rest...

...I stare at the phone It has been seven years Every time I see her name I feel guilty Can I do this? I said I would. We both love the same person, she and I. Her mother, my sister. I put the ......Read the rest...

...“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impun......Read the rest...

...The road to my hometown was a long, and arduous one. I loved the walk ,and the privacy it gave me. My mind was awash with thoughts of confusion on foot of my favourite author’s pre......Read the rest...

...Don’t tell me about a resolution, tell me in six months about the transformation.......Read the rest...

...I am wearing my red white and blue stars jacket. It is totally patriotic, and this is Veteran’s Day. A bunch of children have spotted my daughter’s picture in military uniform. One asks me “is she......Read the rest...

...One problem with gasoline is, it smells Another is, prices are high as hell -- But a real good friend of mine Pays just a buck forty-nine -- Says he stocks up daily at Taco Bell......Read the rest...

...Loving life at sixty eight Looking forward to sixty nine Sixty nine is the new forty-nine My eyes see well, my heart is happy I have new hobbies, I look forward to life I am self-actualized and ......Read the rest...

...I decided that poetry was no longer my thing Ideas were not coming, falling off my back, sliding onto my desk. I shut down my computer and stopped thinking of words. My list-making ceased. I was d......Read the rest...

...Wearing my p.j.’s again today. Third day? Fourth? Nineteenth? It is my painting outfit, so back off. I take a whiff. It’s not that bad yet. I might put it into the laundry. The laundry king ......Read the rest...