Forty Five Poems - Poems about Forty Five

...I was never going to retire. I will be dragged out in a body bag at ninety-two I told everyone. God laughed at my silliness. He made the drive more difficult, harrowing drivers who almost kill me ......Read the rest...

...Where art thou unknown spellcaster? If in fact such a female and/or male exists an insufferable existence clamors for surcease against riptide of ineradicable anguish. Living hand to mouth f......Read the rest...

... Couples make a big commitment, when, at the altar, they say, “I do,” vowing to love, hold, and cherish and declaring, ‘Til death do us part.” Not aware of what the future holds. The unknown “f......Read the rest...

...Dear Lord, Hear our prayers, Send your angels to Turkey and North Syria today. Forty-five thousand dead, please send miracles our way. There are trapped children, who are under the rubble. Your s......Read the rest...

...("Night Sky Serpent", 2013, original pen and ink) Sitting With The Wood Dragon For over forty-five years I’ve been meditating on and off, Some times a lot, Some times not at all B......Read the rest...

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fittingly dubbed “The Pearl of the Orient Seas” an archipelago of 7,641 islands, the Philippines majestically sits in vast waters between Pacific Ocean and South......Read the rest...

...DISCOMBOBULATION The clock on the bedside table Says two forty-five in the morning.. Hours of precious sleep time yet Until the day is dawning. I shine the torch around the r......Read the rest...

... I. Fold, crease, unfold, sheets of paper thin as possibility, a crisp white plea to gravity. Forty-five times, a cosmic origami building bridges from table to the moon. The mind dreams, un......Read the rest...

...Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew. Ah... what luxury to wax poetic as freedom to trumpet thoughts, ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane, especially if president number forty ......Read the rest...

...How far could he possibly leap? The child asked her father. Stop talking and start backing up slowly, her Daddy told her. He already knew a snow leopard can leap forty-five feet. Which is longer t......Read the rest...

...“turn the table” from sweet to sour is my listening taste broken bouzouki Greek wedding plates thirty-three to forty-five or hearing live when i’m sixty-four on seventy-eight......Read the rest...

...It was a bus of ghouls And it was speeding through painted lines Pumpkinhead raised a brow and scoffed As the bus passed me by. I wondered where they were headed I figured they were in ro......Read the rest...

...[Not strictly limericks as syllable count is out, But hey… be a rebel… ignore the rules!] _______________________________________ I met the young lady from flat forty-five I told her, “Your be......Read the rest...

...On Saturday night, I was watching a movie Till I fell asleep. All of a sudden, At around twelve forty-five, I heard a loud thump. "Who is that?" I asked. I waited for a response, But ther......Read the rest...

...I will be creating a nonet poem the reverse format will be my example in forty-five syllables this line will have eight syllables and the final line, nine syllables.......Read the rest...