Long Mid life crisis Poems

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path 
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...

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The Ash Can  ©

I got the call on Sunday night.  I was traveling on business.  When I looked at the caller ID
 I wondered why my husband’s boss would be calling me....

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Wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...

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Mental Abuse 
By Ricky Flanigan

I wrote this when I was in my worst a few months back, feeling it!

I'm locked up mentally, increasingly destroying my reputation,
Hangin' on the line between 1st class and starvation,

Staring at...

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The aesthetic of the autocratic effigy of directing the positivity of proclivity in the nature,  the stir of it , that grit in your teeth this life gives , that digestive hindsight. Almost lost...

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This poem is written with a fair of Jamaican Patois but I hope you all get the drift.


Cow Cock Soup


Boy things a get bad, really sad.
Went to bed last night
Mi wife feeling fruity
Mi eyes get...

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As the world turns
my stomach does too
knowing that all my children
are confused, unemployed
and young and restless
all the day through,
and my husband of 30 years
decided to leave me 
for someone younger,
says hes going through
a mid-life crisis,
what...

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That's it, I've had it
She uses Miracle Whip on her sandwich
I just can't handle this, I can't take anymore
I am real careful when I leave how I slam the door
When I left, I took with...

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Why am I so enraged  is what I often want to know
Intimidation and frustration is what I mostly show
Although I am such a nice guy with a carefree kind of heart
It’s the rage that’s...

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Dion is Quiet

Their marriage had left a demineralized matrix or was it the other way around

Possibly feminine revenge for her own mid-life crisis gone hard in denial

Where once had been gems precious crystals and finely...

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Somewhere between increasing size of the uniform
Maturity kicked in, and I grew up, mom
Molded to be different than the peers I grew among
If I were to, meet my child avatar, how I would be viewing...

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Tandy was the homecoming queen,
Every boy’s fantasy;
She wed the high school quarterback,
They split at thirty three.

Tandy was still quite beautiful,
And had her choice of men.
But they always disappointed,
It seemed she couldn’t win.

At thirty six she...

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As My Day of Birth Approaches,

I'm Reminded how Fast Another Year has Gone By.

The Years Come and Go,

And in Some Respects, I Feel Numb to the Experience.

I Feel I Have Reached This Plateau in My...

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Somewhere on the darkest path 
A mature scream bellows a deadly wrath 
Give me your blessed young 
Evil words coming from an acid tongue 
We do not want these minds walking alone 
Google Ling on...

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                    It may be the mid life crisis
        ...

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TEMPUS FUGIT

I seemed to be going through a change,
Maybe the male menopause.
Or perhaps a mid-life crisis,
But I had fun whatever the cause.

I purchased a Harley Davidson
To roar about the place
And I rescued my flares from...

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How does the music flow?

Subtle single soprano notes and chorals sing out
in whispered melodies, blustery bravado mix doubts
when one tenor voice begins its solos on the rise 
blending with the symphony surprise.

At first comes the...

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So many years doing what I should
Daughter, sister, wife, mother
Expectations to meet, unrequited dreams to fulfill
Oh how exhausting it all proved to be

Stretching myself thin, reaching for the brass ring
Child, woman, seeker, believer
Knowing all my...

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He’s having a big mid life crisis
It’s a bit late, I grant you, but true
It should have begun in his forties
And not when he hit eighty two
When he traded his wife for a new one
(She...

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Its not a mid-life crisis, 
it just took me all these years
To realize the foolishness 
of all my silly fears.

See, my mom, she worried all her days 
and "caution" was her song.
She saw the worst...

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Its been a while since
I last wrote a poem
Feeling rusty
Out of shape
Man it's been a while since 
I did anything 
Feeling lazy 
Slothful
I wonder if I am
Having a mid-life crisis
If so, then I have no...

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The sounds of silence in my house,
Reminds me it is an empty nest,
The chicks and birds have gone their way.

For many years, it was bustling with voices and cheer,
Never worrying how the time was creeping...

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watching the tail lights fading

i stood there and wondered
did you ever consider staying
or was it my latest blunder

or were you
just driving to 
clear your head

or was this a convenient time
to make your escape
from all of...

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[this was written to celebrate July 2nd, the halfway point of the year]


I've been called...
half pint
half wit
half awake
...and half a dozen other half-baked 
semi-insults that I have
half a mind 
to half-heartedly
ignore

I'm somewhere in the middle...

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I am back!!!!! Hopefully this time better than ever. I hope this will be a new chapter in life. I've been stuck in a rut for many years and too much time have come and...

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