Long Fortieth Poems

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 invited to my birthday party,
My...

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A rare Arab and Asian identity which is distinct in topography;
blessed with an excellent human resource in health services;
its heart, destroyed and rebuilt seven different times;
having a name unchanged and sustained to reach historic zeniths;
surviving...

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Tishmandu
 
My eyes can see
That the sand is like sea
And it stretches to the end of my mind
On a ship set to sail
with four legs and a tail
Tishmandu I set out to find
 
Now the...

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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 dreams coming true, but Bruce, followed them. He
packed...

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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 Fisher, dated December 1985:

“They record...

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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 only...

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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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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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To My Brother on His Birthday

You’ve been to me a brother and a friend
A great support and comfort through the years
The sadness of my life with joy you blend
And when I cry, you help to...

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jesus died and jerusalem went black
the wind howled and the sky thundered loudly
people ran in fear as the earth moaned
but the beloved stayed
jesus was buried in the early evening

those who believed in him carried his...

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Friends and family have come together on this very special day,
To join in a celebration of love that has forever stayed!
Forty years ago, Danny took Opal's hand into his,
	And made a commitment to in love...

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I was in-processing my Army unit in Germany when the fortieth anniversary of D-Day happened; but, alas, I couldn't leave.  I wanted so much to be there to meet the old surviving veterans, to...

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Villanelle: The only game solution to the human condition

The only game solution to the human condition
“Don’t nobody move a muscle” and hold your breath
Stop having sex with the opposite sex in motion

In a billion years...

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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 yet suave and...

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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 It's pages to turn.

For as surely as each...

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Do not sleep, in the Mysteries of  “ LIFE “
For You may find: You have Lost Your WIFE
Imagine the devastation   : that tears Your Heart in TWO
A PAIN inflictive in a History...

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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

So proud are we of your...

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I am living in a world where the wind no longer blows through your hair my love                  ...

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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 and lightning’s energy...

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Ageless woman lies alone.
Builds her own fires
amid perfumed air,
blending inside warmth
with outside chill.

Pretty things surround
a rarely-shared bed.
Hoping for a dream-filled sleep,
she stares into flames
then the crystal stars.

Loneliness drops gently
to a cold pillow, as
her skin burns...

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Forty Days





                        Astronomers time track a cycle of forty days 

 ...

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Through the universe our souls would travel,
Trying love’s mysteries to unravel.  
A miracle of Love would come to be.
When I first saw you and you first saw me.

In you I saw hope, A lovely...

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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
And finally...

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