Long Fortieth Poems
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I Talked Again
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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Categories:
fortieth, life, miracle,
Form:
Free verse
Walled By Religions, Painted By Books
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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Categories:
fortieth, arabic, community, earth, education, environment, history, nature,
Form:
Ode
Tishmandu
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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Categories:
fortieth, adventure, dedication, fantasy, health, inspirational, mystery, nostalgia,
Form:
I do not know?
Memorial:Cousin Bruce, Porsche Race Car Driver
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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Categories:
fortieth, cousin, memorial, thanks, tribute,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Life as a Rat
Life as a Rat
Yes, every city is a labyrinthine cage
woven from streets seen from celestial heights,
but also – from the silken threads of your habits:
The paths you follow, or avoid,
the cafes where your presence lingers...
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Categories:
fortieth, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Fortieth Legal By T Wignesan
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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Categories:
fortieth, abuse, anti bullying, leadership, people, power,
Form:
Free verse
A Positive Attitude
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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Categories:
fortieth, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Thirtieth High School Reunion
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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Categories:
fortieth, funny, school, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Thirtieth High School Reunion
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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Categories:
fortieth, school,
Form:
Rhyme
More Than a Brother
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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Categories:
fortieth, blessing, brother,
Form:
Sonnet
The Meaning of Easter
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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Categories:
fortieth, death, easter, good friday, religion,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Fortieth Anniversary Salute
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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Categories:
fortieth, anniversary, god, family, family, god, inspiration, love,
Form:
I do not know?
Normandy Beaches
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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Categories:
fortieth, beach, remember, soldier, vacation, war,
Form:
Narrative
Villanelle: the Only Game Solution To the Human Condition
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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Categories:
fortieth, satire,
Form:
Villanelle
A Perfect Gentleman Friend At Forty
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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Categories:
fortieth, happiness,
Form:
Verse
Who Would Have Thought It Only Forty
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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Categories:
fortieth, age, health,
Form:
Lyric
Wake Up
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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Categories:
fortieth, death, life, love, wife, life, heart, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Now You Know Better
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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Categories:
fortieth, birthday, character, children, family, father daughter, love,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Being Here Without You
I am living in a world where the wind no longer blows through your hair my love ...
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Categories:
fortieth, anniversary,
Form:
Free verse
Noah's Adventure
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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Categories:
fortieth, adventure, animal, appreciation, bible, blessing, boat, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Judy Marisa Reflects In the Fall of Her Fortieth Year
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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Categories:
fortieth, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Forty Days
Forty Days
Astronomers time track a cycle of forty days
...
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Categories:
fortieth, body, men, prayer, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Watch the Sky
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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Categories:
fortieth, god, space,
Form:
Ballad