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Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 109-End
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A babe born, in darkness braved
Bring love to the world if only for a day
No questions asked, nor answered, nor saved
Let peace abide in every child, we pray
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As they stood watching their son, enthralled in...
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Categories:
getting older, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Hilda's Family Reunion
Paddy didn't want to go to his wife's family reunion. He told her that in the same nice way he had told her in years past so as to avoid other reunions over the many...
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Categories:
getting older, family, marriage,
Form:
Prose
Mommy Why
Molested the first fifteen years of my life. My mother remained silent the whole time. As the molesting continued all those years. Forced to live a pretend life all my childhood. Beaten and punished every...
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Categories:
getting older, mother daughter, mother, child, house, school, god,
Form:
Epic
Stricken With Anguished Nausea
Stricken with anguished nausea
Written three years ago tomorrow,
yet superimposed (likened to
emotional palimpsest) upon
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress
triggered courtesy war
torn legally tendered greenbacks,
where enemy bonded, heisted, and netted
mine...
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Categories:
getting older, abuse, age, analogy, angst, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Snow
The very fact of being alive, often causes one to seek adventure;
And sometimes it is no deterrent, when it carries traces of danger.
I was not a seasoned survivalist, but very much loved the outdoors,
Like varicolored...
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Categories:
getting older, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, magic, mountains, snow,
Form:
Couplet
BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
It disny seem that long ago
Toddling and having fun,
Crawling then walking along the floor
And learning how tae run.
Potty trained and full eh life
They’d run you af yer feet,
A kiss on the cheek...
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Categories:
getting older, abuse, addiction, dark, drug, family, health, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
A Narrative of Life
On this morning after the dogs have been fed and run around the yard barking at the crows and squirrels as they find the morning treats I have left...
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Categories:
getting older, feelings, life,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 124-- Damian Delilah Mallory Polly: Carter's and Lucinda's Vacation
Date: April 2049
Next day: warm spring silky
Afternoon Polly voyaged to the estate
For a visit accompanying was
her cousin Holly who
Dolly Molly and Damian would meet
For the first time. Molly and Damian
And...
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Categories:
getting older, 11th grade, allusion, color, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Friends Speak - An Echo Poem
(Brian Johnston speaks to Lora Colon)
Getting older don't you wonder
What your life is all about?
Wages earned don't leap to haunt me
Like my dreams of fighting trout -
Lightning flash and...
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Categories:
getting older, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
My Tree
The most human of things, that was once said to me, sat in the garden, under the tree, licking my ice cream, feeling the grass, wanting to grow up, wanting to ask, wanting to drive,...
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Categories:
getting older, adventure, age, anger, child, child abuse, depression,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
The Way It Is - An Echo Poem
Afraid To Face The World
You may be the one to help redeem my spirit
For you seem so incredibly inspiring.
Anything I create I destroy
Save me from destroying myself
Oh potential Muse
A wild...
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Categories:
getting older, depression,
Form:
Blank verse
Unto His likeness
In that day, when seeking Gods word.
For, purpose in this life not expecting much.
Growing up in church following along.
Mom, would say you need to go church to be good.
Great grandma saying shhhh, you in God's...
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Categories:
getting older, faith,
Form:
Free verse
Getting Older: a Reason For Celebration
" How old are you, professor?"*
I turned around trying to locate the student who had
asked this unexpected question.
It was not hard to locate her. There she was smiling,
her hand up in the air.
" I...
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Categories:
getting older, age, happy, life, old,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
getting older, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Night Before Christmas Eve
The night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price 12/23/2014
Twas the night before Christmas Eve and at the North Pole
Elves packing the sleigh for the merry old soul
The Reindeer are...
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Categories:
getting older, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
The Joys of Getting Older
The Joys of Getting Older.
We may all be getting on a bit
But lets not forget for some more fortunate
The joy of it
You don’t have to bounce up and down in bed no more
And when...
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Categories:
getting older, age,
Form:
Verse
Old But Still In Time To Live Longer
Losing hair is a sign of ageing,
Except for other eventual reasons, of course.
Thank God, I'm just getting older, not ill.
My sight is not the same anymore.
Even when wearing glasses, focus is sometimes blurred.
Knees? Oh, please!
None...
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Categories:
getting older, age, funny, health, imagination, mystery, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Ready, Set, Please Don'T Go Because I'M Not
I’ve always been your little girl,
Even now that I’m an adult.
Yes, I know I’ll always be your baby,
And I grew up way too fast.
But there’s something I can’t stop from happening dad,
And in some ways...
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Categories:
getting older, dad, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Ja'Mere
So I've got a little blessing
And his name is Ja'mere ,
he's the toughest of them all,
Like Bone Crusher " Never Scared".
He's everything to me, and I swear that he's a sweetie,
So I'll protect him by...
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Categories:
getting older, brother, cute love, dedication, deep, i love
Form:
Rhyme
My Earth, My Home
When every soul is getting older
And the trees are no longer green
When the wind is getting warmer
Not as cool as it has been
Is this earth changing?
I love planet earth like a home
I dreamt of...
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Categories:
getting older, dedication, faith, peace, old, education, earth, green,
Form:
Free verse
Everyday
I wake up everyday and it seems like it's the same old thing.
The days seem to go faster and I am getting older
and wondering what will happen next.
I never used to care or...
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Categories:
getting older, bereavement, daughter, dream, heartbroken, heaven, i miss
Form:
Free verse
Best Sports Poems Iii
These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part III
For Jack Nicklaus, at the 1987 Open
by Michael R. Burch
When you were young
every putt was makeable
and every dream remarkable;
the stars were unmistakable
you set...
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Categories:
getting older, america, baseball, basketball, boxing day , football, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Opting Out
So at 47 I have arrived.
A position most disconcerting,
Troubling? Nay,
Downright disturbing!
A blatant assault.!
An ego in default.
Should have steered left,
Perhaps joined a cult.
Having settled back into the lap,
Of my original birth sack,
I am anything but...
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Categories:
getting older, age, beauty, desire, hope, mother daughter, parody,
Form:
Narrative
My Life's Meaning
My Life’s Meaning
By Curtis Johnson
Where do we fine the purpose of it all?
What does it all really mean?
What does life mean to me?
I have been young, and now, I’m getting older.
I’m thriving to be wiser,...
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Categories:
getting older, animal, beauty, bible, bird, blessing, god, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Opening Closed Doors
Death
is when my last door closes,
and how,
and why
I stopped looking forward
toward more of getting older.
He said
before he died.
Until then,
his life had been gratitude for open
and closed doors,
windows of opportunity opening
as windows of risk closed.
I wonder...
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Categories:
getting older, beauty, caregiving, death, health, identity, integrity, love,
Form:
Political Verse