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Forty Nine Poems - Poems about Forty Nine


Premium Member Is That a Faerie On the Forty Nine Ford
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. Oh, yes, said Boss Hog. Is that a Faerie from the ocean blue? I can go ask her I offered, but she...

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Categories: forty nine, car, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
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Don’t tell me about a resolution, tell me in six months about the transformation....

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Categories: forty nine, emotions, new year,
Form: Free verse



A Great Leap In the Lord
On this day thou wert born forty and nine years ago, Scores and scores of trials passed thy way, And we watched them together passing like storms. I let my inward eye perceive thy birth from thy ‘mother’s womb’: Thou fed on by the umbilical cord of her, but she had no love for the foetus, She nourished her body,...

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Categories: forty nine, birthday, butterfly, god, happy
Form: Free verse
Forever Forty-Nine
"He wasn't supposed to be...forever forty-nine" it was the last photo taken after family vacation candles aglow a top his cake my brother's rosy cheeks ready to blow them out ...forever forty-nine we were all gathered around singing gleefully wondering what wishes he was about to...

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Categories: forty nine, birthday, brother, death,
Form: Narrative
Forty Nine
It takes stamina to dance when your whole leg clings to its plaster shell...

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Categories: forty nine, appreciation, care, heart, hope,
Form: Haiku



Forty-Nine Poems
Forty-nine poems posted Mostly in a row. Where, oh where did all the poems By other writers go?...

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Categories: forty nine, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
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: forty nine, cowboy-western, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, me,
Form: Rhyme

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