Long Mid twenties Poems

Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...

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Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning

Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...

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STRAWBERRY SWEET 
Strawberry scent 
At the picnic place
Late in the afternoon
Birds singing up in the trees
With the joy of spring season`

The basket half empty all the pies gone
Red wine from one glass, but we had...

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Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023

Above title attests 
how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.

Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...

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Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvi highlight of February 13th, 2022

Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.

Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...

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Watching toilet bowl lv highlight of snowy February 7th, 2021

Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf
flush with adventure overflowing excitement.

Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
culmination of decades worth hesitation and trepidation.

Ever since garden variety generic...

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The Reality is 
A broken mirror reflects ultimate terror.
The reality is

We all have the ability to get the pain when expectations run away from our brain.
The reality always hits you.

Forget it, even if I told...

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Exactly five years ago I lived in a city
that I named as the city of my struggles
quite an imposing brand you would say
but I found it appropriate in my mid-twenties.
I crawled against my inertia to...

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Who ARE You Contest
Sponsor: Catie Lindsey


Hmmmm...Who am I?

I have asked myself this question many times.
My strength from past incidents has depleted
my insecurity. Now, I am free to be me....

As a child I was seen as...

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My name is Christopher Hobart,
and it would be a real safe bet
to say most of what I’ve done in life,
I have come to truly regret.

There’s lots of thing that I could blame,
I was raised in...

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Sometimes when am emotionally strangled 
I sit in the corner of my room
and think and blink,
also cry untill my eyes run out of tears..

When I am hurt for any reason..

My..
Mind blabbers:
"May be I shouldn't have...

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To Mom Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Francine Roberts


At birth the cord was severed, though our hearts stayed connected,
    I’ve seen more beauty in your heart the more I have reflected. 

You quilted a Peter...

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It’s starting to cool down here in Connecticut. Leaves are falling, like giant, burnt snowflakes (science says that trees send chemical signals to their branches to clip leaves away). 

Peter borrowed a friend's toy-like, pea...

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I am in my mid twenties and life is slowing down, 
I guess I am maturing, but I don't like the turn around. 
Acquaintances today, don't know who I used to be, 
wild, crazy, adventurous,...

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If there ever was a way I could easily go back in time,
I may change a few things here and maybe more there,
only a few crucial moments do enter my questioning mind,
one is of myself,...

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*“We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?” Christine Feehan
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      Time Stops for No...

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I'll bid by time
Telling myself we'd grow old together
And that given just the right amount of time
We'd be inseparable & we will die together 

I've loved you from my younger days
When I had all my...

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Owakuhona-oru!
The name given to me by my father,
Meaning,"if at all I go through this!"
It was during the November famine,
Of the late 1999 that I was birthed;
By a young woman of roughly eighteen,
To a young man...

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Jake was a sweet little boy; sad his mother died when he was two.
He watched for her every night for a month or so.
Daddy remarried a few years later, and this lady became “Mommy”.
Jake was...

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Listen To The Warm


"It happens just because we need to want, and to be wanted too when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and... listen to the warm.”-Rod McKuen 


years...

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My life started with adoption
then realizing had a stammer as well
struggle through school glad to leave
at fifteen still struggling to tell

First job was electrician so spark
but colour blindness put that off rail
then worked as storeman...

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God knows the future from its beginning
His eyes see all things in His sight
nothing is hidden from our creator
who works always perfectly right

I was married in my mid-twenties
to a lovely Christian girl Jean
her witness to...

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I’m learning a lot, dating Peter. For instance, I have a whole new awareness of how clueless older Americans, like people in their mid-twenties, are about things in the modern world.

I think Peter’s learning things...

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My life started with adoption
then realising had stammer as well
struggle through school glad to leave
at fifteen still struggling to tell

First job was electrician so spark
but colour blindness put that off rail
then worked as storeman rest...

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I want to be up and happy and feeling my best.
But I don't get it, I wake up and feel depressed.
I have nothing to be in a bad mood about.
But I just want to sit...

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