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Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom
Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...

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Categories: octogenarian, age, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, best friend,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Diary Notes: Another Day Sets In Paris
DIARY NOTES : Mad-House Maths

March 30th., 2018 - Another day sets in Paris

The home-bound Octogenarian trundles from the Mall's town centre
Back laden with the day's shopping
His hands numb from clutching load-packed plastic bags during the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: octogenarian, abuse, french, inspirational, judgement, life, violence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Self Help Addict Needles Unsuspecting Reader
Self help addict needles unsuspecting reader 

Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow 
scouting about for carrion 
scavenging for dead animals 
and rooting about...

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Categories: octogenarian, 12th grade, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme
Literate Lettered Latitudinarian
Literate lettered latitudinarian

Presents the following slapdash
higglety-pigglety bupkis, whereby reader
experiences being mentally hogtied
perusing pseudo poetic perambulation
devoid of sense and sensibility
welcoming character assassination
concerning pride of yours truly,
who merely strung together
words sharing "arian"

as their last five letters
for no...

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Categories: octogenarian, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, community, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me
Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and moving the...

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Categories: octogenarian, adventure, age, appreciation, creation, imagination, march, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Theories For the Way Some Understand
I have a theory Gislane Maxwell was jailed
Another theory she worked with and for Epstien
One more theory andrew windsor is served trial Doc's
Another theory 56 million was the pre pandemic death rate
A theory there was...

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Categories: octogenarian, addiction, analogy, assonance,
Form: Free verse
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years Since
August 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...

Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason: 
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia. 

August thirteenth nineteen hundred and...

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Categories: octogenarian, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion, fate, grave, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Wicked Bad Designed Day
(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia 

August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one still sending hair raising shivers down my spine
which following unpleasant...

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Categories: octogenarian, abuse, adventure, angst, good friday, grave, mom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sun Setting Over the Dark Green Fringe of a Shivering Lake
Sun setting over the dark green fringe of a shivering lake on the last day of winter
An old man still unbent sits on a deserted wooden bench
   with the load of his cares...

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Categories: octogenarian, bird, loneliness, song, spring, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lxiv and Lxv
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXIV - LXV


NOTE (facts to bear in mind while reading) : Under the French Penal Code, harm done to the infirm, minors and seniors (i.e. over 65) is...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: octogenarian, allegory, anti bullying, corruption, french, immigration, power,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Bittersweet pyrrhic victory
Bittersweet pyrrhic victory...

if a 2024 November presidential Biden win
pandemonium likely to occur, 
subsequently figurative tectonic upheaval  
might set United States in a tailspin.

Though discouraged, disenchanted,
disheartened, et cetera Democrat,
I intend to exercise enfranchisement
wherein human made...

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Categories: octogenarian, 12th grade, abuse, america, angst, animal, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Daylight Savings Time 2023
Daylight Savings Time 2023...

in Pennsylvania will begin at 2:00 AM 
on Sunday, March twelfth
and moost likely will impact
min-née-ute effect on me
a run of the mill on the Floss
amazingly gracefully aging
long haired pencil necked geek,
who welcomes...

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Categories: octogenarian, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Rhyme
Still Thirteen
a ma lingering effect from angst riddled adolescence 
written some years ago, the psycho social mental events
indelible imprint etched psyche ova this pa on a win tree day hence
though a survivor of self starvation i...

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Categories: octogenarian, age, angst, crush, depression, emotions, grief, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Daylight Savings Time Min Ute Effect On Me
just moments ago, a dawning realization
     arose within this sol son begat
from ma late mother
     and octogenarian widower father,
     oh..no nothing cat

tuss strophic,...

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Categories: octogenarian, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, humanity,
Form: Free verse
My Brio Bio Gruff Fee
i could stare at your very photogenic (albeit invisible) countenance all day (or mice elf Stuart Little as a poor substitute), all week, the entire month, this remaining year, at least one additional decade, boot...

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Categories: octogenarian, 10th grade, 12th grade, father son, hello,
Form: Free verse
Circa February 28th 1968 the Former Leiper Estate
Circa February 28th, 1968 - The Former Leiper Estate

Soon after our family settled
into the sprawling estate
named "Glen Elm" approximate
half century old from date
mentioned in title, said treasure
rosy Gypsy foretold fate

Harriet Harris, (daughter
of Antebellum Rebecca great
Kuritsky...

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Categories: octogenarian, 2nd grade, anniversary, dad, farewell, fire, grief,
Form: Free verse
Matthew Scott Harris Born January 13th, 1959
Thank ye immensely devoted sister Shari
   for availing Shana Aubrey
an expansive plethora of blessedly
   extravagant opportunities
wherein here anatomical fist-sized noggin i.e. grey
matter sponging up - less doable from me
the biological father,...

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Categories: octogenarian, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Elegy
A Stray Tear Doth Adieu Occasionally Shed
toward thee spunky gal, 
     whose impregnation and debut appearance 
     way to brief a tale for Aesop
cuz, (umpteen iterations recounted),
 
     out...

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Categories: octogenarian, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Epitaph
In Mammary Of: Maternal Bosoms
breast cancer runs rampant within me late mother side
whar moost every female diagnosed with emotional ride
into the depths of despair where metastatic cells pried
their way into the appendages whar din o suckling provide
did initial sustenance...

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Categories: octogenarian, absence, anger, angst, bereavement, cry, leaving, son,
Form: Elegy
All In the Name of Progress 1st Addition
The wrecking ball long since
     demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
     a once rural residence,
     which soulful yen
I called home
 ...

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Categories: octogenarian, 10th grade, 11th grade, 8th grade, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Horrible Hobgoblins Haunt Harris Household
Our own hagrid (in the corporeal essence of marital relatives) heaves livid rage
like real life harry potter dementors dead set on wreaking havoc
   mainly from the zison matriarch in a mental and physical...

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Categories: octogenarian, angst, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Horrible Hobgoblins Haunt Harris Household
Our own hagrid (in the corporeal essence of marital relatives) heaves livid rage
like real life harry potter dementors dead set on wreaking havoc
   mainly from the zison matriarch in a mental and physical...

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Categories: octogenarian, angst, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I Dont Want To Live This Life
I Don't Want to Live This Life

(Change of pace equals review of book
long out of circulation,
but eyes experience immediate hook
so perhaps...take a look
and best locate a cozy nook).

Authored by Debbie
Spungen early 1980's,
yours truly doth recommend
perhaps...

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Categories: octogenarian, addiction, birth, courage, death, funeral, mental illness,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lxii and Lxiii
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXII - LXIII

			LXII

If ever I had a country with streets under graffiti
And if ever I were the Minister of Transport who travels about for free
I'd give a free...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: octogenarian, car, corruption, french, kindergarten, murder, violence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
THE VANQUISHED
Folks, I perused it in black and white;
The Octogenarian verbalized after the civil war that
"There are no victors and no vanquished."
Scores of years gone by, we now visualize
Who the victors and the vanquished are.
The victors...

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Categories: octogenarian, africa, corruption, history, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things