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To Speak of WomenMen ...
Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
As if ANY man ever had...
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Categories:
growing old, appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form:
Free verse
Life's Fading Light-Part 2-Heroic Crown of SonnetsAlone
For in the end it's just one soul that's passed.
Alone I'll lie in sod of greenest grass
to answer for the sins that I've amassed
at gates of gold I'll see if I may pass.
In to this...
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Categories:
growing old, age, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Letters From BatmanPlaying Batman and Robin is a lot different
When the Riddler is your Stepfather
And simultaneously an alcoholic and pedophile
When your secret mission is to keep him
From bringing heroin and pornography
To Gotham city
Your mother wanted to...
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Categories:
growing old, abuse, adventure, courage, death, hero, introspection, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
New Year's ResolutionsJim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O'Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the homes...
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Categories:
growing old, new year,
Form:
Prose
Goodbyed HelloGood morning from the ascending light
Good night from the descending night
I'm sorry, darling of past glee
I'm not sorry that we were together and happy
I'm a house and you're the ground
I'm the mouse, caught...
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Categories:
growing old, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Why Alzheimer SWhy Alzheimer's
Sitting blank with nothing to think on my mind
Feels like a dry well in my head.
Nothing old or new under my sun.
Thirsty for knowledge of anykind;
I keep Pumping until there is a drip,
I stick...
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Categories:
growing old, anger, daughter, evil, farewell, father daughter, judgement,
Form:
Prose
The Death of TutankhamenTHE DEATH OF TUTANKHAMEN
I.
The king is dead--and layed within his place,
and night has fallen as it...
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Categories:
growing old, future, mystery,
Form:
Sonnet
The Death of TutankhamenTHE DEATH OF TUTANKHAMEN
I.
The king is dead--and layed within his place,
and night has fallen as it...
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Categories:
growing old, absence, culture, history,
Form:
Sonnet
Burning Paper HousesSlowly creeping out of winter
Would it ever be the same
If I showed up at your door
Out of breath, out of line
With a million excuses behind my manic behavior?
A video diary full...
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Categories:
growing old, betrayal, extended metaphor, imagery, loss, winter,
Form:
Free verse
I Am LeavingNobody lives in that house anymore
It was built to ridicule the poor
Nobody lives in that house anymore
They must have gone beyond the shore
The operator is no longer around
Greed has driven him out of the miserable...
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Categories:
growing old, analogy, break up, business, change, confidence, courage,
Form:
Free verse
My TownIt was 'My Town' for 7 of the most ...
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Categories:
growing old, chicago, memory,
Form:
Verse
The Defiant Miniature Pinscher PuppyIt feels as though I have sing all the songs
It feels as though I have correct all my wrongs
It feels as though I have read all the books
It feels as though I have something...
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Categories:
growing old, america, anti bullying, betrayal, community, death of
Form:
Free verse
Have I Ever Told YouHave I ever told you ...
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Categories:
growing old, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
The Birdland OperaAll my life I had loved music, and rapturous harmonies thrilled my soul,
As the sound of a wild driving beat, causes eager feet to take control.
As a longtime concert pianist, I'd been fortunate to follow...
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Categories:
growing old, bird, color, fantasy, imagery, nature, romance, song,
Form:
Couplet
Gramps"He made a difference."
Gramps, my mother's father,
Dave Luke -- my grandfather,
a tall unlettered white (decidedly white)
Louisiana man -- was born August 1888.
He lived 87 years. He grew under
the...
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Categories:
growing old, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, age,
Form:
Free verse
The Old House and the SpecterThe pale apparition swirls in on night mist.
It envelopes her body, then breathes out its kiss.
Cold to her cheek as the fog to the shore;
She utters a sigh then sleeps deeply once more.
She’s new...
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Categories:
growing old, dark, evil, fear, house, murder,
Form:
Narrative
SymposiumSkinned shins on tree skins,
Space-viewed landscapes of rust and paint
Showing mirrored continents imagined;
Worlds within worlds at every turn,
Outlines of Octopi on Oil slicked streets;
Every post and pole or stone a step:
Sat on,...
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Categories:
growing old, adventure, growing up, imagination, insect, journey, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Timely FragmentsOld Jambu tree
Still bearing fruits;
Generous delights
~~~~~~~~~
NDP crowd
Massive tapestry;
Community celebration
~~~~~~~~~
Each passing year
Affirms our country;
Diversity in oneness
~~~~~~~~~
We celebrate
Our little red dot;
Gratitude remembers
~~~~~~~~~
So much to see
So little time;
Familiar complaint
~~~~~~~~~
Fireworks display
After The Pledge;
Poignant philosophy
~~~~~~~~~
Politics means action
Mere words concede;
Happy results...
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Categories:
growing old, blessing,
Form:
Haiku
Saved to the UttermostGrowing up, growing old, growing wise –
Or are we merely shadows,
Falling over the memories, the growing -
Stirring embers of hope and mercy,
Gentling as tears on a letter,
Silent, yet sure to speak more stridently,
louder than anything...
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Categories:
growing old, appreciation, faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Tree - Story Poem----------------------------
He was the first of many of his kind,
grown long before his siblings came to be
And from the start it was his job to mind
all tiny things that weren't as strong as he
When furry squirrels...
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Categories:
growing old, bereavement, best friend, caregiving, devotion, friendship, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Nature's Bliss"Has solitude ever led your steps down a forest path . . . "
...
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Categories:
growing old, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, creation, inspiration, muse, nature,
Form:
Verse
Punctilious PunsI was a happy, fluent linguist, fruitfully helping revive endangered languages,
As colorful rainbows walk across the sky, in buttery hours, turned languorous.
I enjoyed doing practical fieldwork, and establishing useful literary programs,
As the honeysuckle sun loves...
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Categories:
growing old, fantasy, imagery, language, nature, word play,
Form:
Couplet
"a Rose From Heaven Grows"May we always address dis-complacency, the vacancy,
And remove all opposes, to our roses,............................................................(Acts 18:4-6)
Here at Poetry Soup, completing love’s 100% loop, in our soup,
For an authentic rose, from God it grows, always knows,
It’s own heart,...
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Categories:
growing old, allegory, funny, inspirational, lovelove,
Form:
Rhyme
And here we are, on the orbit of our illusionsAnd here we are, on the orbit of our illusions,
civilized madmen who have lost their compass,
the divine savage in garments of convention,
hiding the mysteries of the true soul,
living in the shadow of dreams, searching for...
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Categories:
growing old, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Stargazer's Ride For Wild Wild Westcowboy ContestTHE STARGAZER'S RIDE
...
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Categories:
growing old, adventure, animal, cowboy-western, life, pain, animal, animal,
Form:
Free verse