Long One foot in the grave Poems

YouthGroup interviews WiseElder lunch crowd

Notes:

(1) What do you recommend for improving our long-term health prospects?

Question met with quiet,
not smug,
possibly embarrassed?
amusement.


Honey,
I'm eighty years old.
My goal is to continue gracefully accepting my future losses.
I'm not sure that...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE V

Less Heroic Couplets: Word to the Unwise
by Michael R. Burch

I wanted to be good as gold,
but being good, as I’ve been told,
requires something, discipline,
I simply have no interest in!



Villanelle of...

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Left my computer on 
Grabbed the keys off my desk
Packed up the RV
And we headed out West

We grabbed some snacks
Toys, clothes and some cash
turned out the lights, Fed the pets
Shot out the door, dumped the...

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The Divide
by Michael R. Burch

The sea was not salt the first tide ...
was man born to sorrow that first day
with the moon—a pale beacon across the Divide,
the brighter for longing, an object denied—
the tug at...

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Ordinary Love
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Indescribable—our love—and still we say
with eyes averted, turning out the light,
"I love you," in the ordinary way
 
and tug the coverlet where once we lay,
all suntanned limbs entangled, shivering,...

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Sizzling Surprises 

I’m ruminating here on this promenade of sizzling surprises.
I’m sitting here, watching the living denizens walk on by.
None of these sentient beings ever look at me, 
Never see or acknowledge me, not for...

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My girlfriend is not a poet in  the way that most people mean. 
She is a collector of rare and valuable information. Today,

she told me about cats & the color of their coats. We...

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My life spirals ever downward...
The grave taunts me with its laugh.
Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat
As the jester of my unmerited epitaph.

My angst at my ever-flounder appears
Well-earned and justly placed
Where the rabid minions of...

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Rainbow Nation

Blanca is white like beautiful snow in the Drakensberg Mountains
                      she snorted star...

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               Circle in the sand could tell a story 
of a lost world, where celestials and machines 
were one.
A crafty place...

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Be not soft upon the morrow
For the maliciousness it contrives.
The future beckons unending sorrow
To gamely catch the vulture's eye.

'Tis the destiny of mice and men
To be laid waste by nature's curse.
Where foolishness belied of ink...

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"Palpable; so as we come so we go, for-mercy, for this only would I ask, many days of mercy 
Lord mercy... ."

God harbors all of them i know for me as I feel He does...

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World on a string
By Michelle Morris
23/11/2022

You want everyone to think
You've got the world on a string
But no one seems to realise
You're struggling with everything

All your parties and excess
Your fun and carefree attitude
Is a front for...

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Let me show you your own death, 
Night can fall in many ways, 
Every time a friend betrays, 
Love has one foot in the grave, 
Voices rush to call you knave.

When you can't catch your...

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visualizing moments from my past
i had friends that were too fast
and now they're pushing up grass

some pulled triggers to prove they were'nt punks
got sent to prison to spend their lives on jail bunks
in this world...

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A grievance is born the year after an abandonment of all he knew and loved. The deep secrets from within tore through him like a sword. Darkness took form, while sunlight just shied away day...

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A triggered intention to delay the sobriety. This has become her daily intention. Suicidal note helps her cope. Manic depression and a drug seeking obsession filled with no hope. The new malicious promoter is now...

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Everyone has a soul to save
Somewhere in time from cradle to grave
Everyone dies as each one must
Flesh to bone to ashes to dust

Time brings age as do we all
Every rise is followed by a fall
Our...

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Silent Warning

a perched cat on the basement parchment
 time has allowed silence to ensue
 we seek for justice to stake are claim
 while deep inside we are going insane
 lest I refrain a notion of...

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I remember when my father was in his early nineties
              And I had taken him out 
     ...

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THESE WORLD CONTRACTIONS ARE CAUSING CATACLYSM ACTIONS.THESE WORLD CONTRACTIONS ARE
CAUSING THESE CATASTROPHIC REACTIONS.THESE WORLD CONTRACTIONS ARE CAUSING CATACLYSM
ACTIONS.THESE WORLD CONTRACTIONS ARE CAUSING THESE CATASTROPHIC REACTIONS.EARTHQUAKES
HURRICANES TORRENTIAL RAINS THIS WORLDS IN GREAT PAIN. VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS NUCLEAR
DESTRUCTION...

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Grant Me The Serenity

Life, is it really worth living for ?
 I did not know until God opened the door

 And there he was in the shape of a big, bright, spiritual light;
 He said,...

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Life, is it really worth living for ?
 I did not know until God opened the door

 And there he was in the shape of a big, bright, spiritual light,
 He said, Son, believeth in...

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You starred in "The Visitation" which was an episode of Doctor Who.
Your life ended thirty years ago today on December the 11th of 1992.
You died two weeks before Christmas Day.
You were sixty-two when you passed...

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Darkness covers all of me
The blackness is so deep, i cannot see
Shadowy forms float in front of me and my back
It feels as though i've fallen into a dark sea,i'm fading into the black
Deep in...

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