Long Fiftieth Poems

The Sandless Sand Castle

Let me tell you about my eldest brother.

I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...

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My Dearest Daughter

Melanie, dear Melanie, I know that you know my thoughts
are always about you, my concerns are always for you,
my heartache weeps for you, this you know
for there are numerous pages in your possession
that...

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Down by the reverie lived a lovely lady named Princess Marie. 
She stood out in a crowd and was more beautiful than the rest-
She saw things of the Kingdom that even the King couldn’t see....

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Thinking back on my all White
but One,
all Right
but One,
classroom learning experience,

I can see why
many of my straight white male classmates,
especially those with early varsity team excellence
and above average grade point systems
tipping toward future capital-valued employment
might...

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There’s a man across the ward from me with a hearing aid that whines,
‘Old age coming on you see, I’m only seventy-nine.
Me hernia’s shot, and so’s me sight, my specs they’re thick like bottle.
But, I...

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Winter morning light filters through lace curtains,
Reaches down, spills onto the corner kitchen sink,
Through east and south facing windows.
The glass jar, the scrub brush and pad in plastic butter dish,
A down-turned, empty yogurt container,
The pink...

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My spouse and I attended my thirtieth class reunion at Lydia's Smorgasbord.
I had avoided such past events since in high school I was largely ignored!
But my wife proclaimed that we would attend, thus ending that...

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We gathered for our thirtieth class reunion at Lydia's Smorgasbord.
I'd avoided such past events since in school I was largely ignored!
But my spouse proclaimed we would attend, thus ending that debate!
The dreaded encounter is expressed...

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To keep you from telling others your testimony

Your dear old mommy wants you six feet deep

She don't want anyone to know her business

You see she is filled with self-pity and can't stand

To talk to me...

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Somehow I knew it would be amazing. The romantic I found in you kept my fantasy hopes anxiously high. First smiles, first long stares and first kisses, all the best, causing my longing hope of...

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During their courting days into her limpid eyes he would gaze.
When in his arms his many charms set her very soul ablaze!
The sweet nothings once whispered when they would bill and coo,
Became table-thumping screaming matches...

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Many immortal words have been spoken in the heat of the moment,
During romantic settings, wars and other distressful foment!
Damsels have said, "I wouldn't be caught dead with that guy!"
Decades later she celebrates their fiftieth with...

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September, I‘m asking you, “please don’t come.” 
I can’t take the heartbreak every year.
I need something to make me numb.
Let me see if I can make this more clear.

>>>>>>>

This is the month that he and...

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With my dear spouse I'm very much in love.
'Tis truly a union sealed in heaven above!
O'er the years we've traveled a lot and seen many things.
We've watched our family grow and the joy that it...

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50TH anniversary, time for rejoicing
Jubilee
Jubilee;
Jubilee;
fifty years you see...

What is this thing called jubilee
fiftieth anniversary, time for rejoicing, yes Oh! my God jubilee
Praising you Lord God in Honor my Savior, redeemer Father
I rejoice in the jubilee

Well,...

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Twenty-nine years ago my heart gave up on me 
Just sixteen days following my fiftieth birthday, 
attacked like a ton of bricks, suddenly, on a 
Sunday evening, toward the close of the day. 

A heavy...

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INCIDENT   ON   HIGHWAY  12,  SASKATCHEWAN   1977


Black ice early morning
I heard no radio warning
Truck coming east at sixty 
Me heading west at seventy.

Closing at two hundred feet
Every second...

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Sally Jane hung out the clothes

As her employer did upstairs doze

It was the same every week

Sally Jane's outlook was so bleak

An orphan child found in the lane

By the Reverend Parson Cane

He brought her to the...

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Recollections flutter
Behind my eyes
Like autumn leaves 
Scattered by the wind.
Dreams send out tentacles
Into time long past
Calling memories up from
Obscurity into light. 
A phantom path leads back
Into the dusty library
Of forgotten treasures
Where there’s an Easter party...

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Well how do you feel, now that you're over the hill 
you know that you're now well past your prime 
happy birthday to you, I wish you fifty more too 
but remember, fifty years is...

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Welcome to the over-the-hill gang.
We're so glad you're finally here.
We know it's a wee bit scary
knowing old age is near.

It's now perfectly acceptable
to be in bed before nine
and of course it's time to substitute
Geritol for...

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If John hadn't died because of drugs, he would've turned forty-nine today.
If John hadn't died, his fiftieth birthday would've been just one year away.
The paramedics had planned to perform CPR but they saw it was...

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Wedding Anniversary

        On fiftieth Wedding Anniversary
     Couple booked a lovely suite in hurry.
           ...

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Get Out of Cooking

It either ended up being tall
Or really had seemed so small
When you want it to sound best
For it to pass each and every test.

Even when harder you will try
And in the end...

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A boulder looks down upon her children below;
Varied rocks worn smooth by the creek’s swift flow.
As the bright sun glistens on her lovely rust hue,
She shares her delight of her little ones in view.

Sedona holds...

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