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Premium Member Lifeboat the Sinking
As to the this and the that and the how and the why,
    I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
  ...

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Categories: thirty nine, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



New Year's Eve 2022
New Year's Eve 2022

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022 
sequestered (with the missus) 
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd  
entertains reckons partition of time 
into...

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Categories: thirty nine, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form: Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamics
and spoils of Western Civilization.

Thrum of the central heater...
manually activated upon advent of twilight
(since yours truly not resident within "smart home"),
nevertheless warm cockles and muscles
appreciate basking, and luxuriating,
within climate controlled environment,
whether bone chilling deep freeze...

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Categories: thirty nine, adventure, earth, green, heaven, inspiration, journey, light,
Form: Free verse
New Year's Eve 2021
New Year's Eve 2021

December thirty first
two thousand twenty one countdown
will transparently and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty two,
whereby the Ball a geodesic sphere,
12 feet in diameter,
and weighing 11,875 pounds.

The aforementioned Ball...

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Categories: thirty nine, adventure, culture, dance, humanity, inspiration, new years
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mama Em
My days were short but God has lengthen them;
My body sometimes hurts, but that's because of sin-nature;
God is such a beautiful King;
Back in my day (I'm not that old);
As a child you always had to...

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Categories: thirty nine, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, dedication, encouraging, family, grandparents,
Form: Free verse



The Poor Mans Child
USA Fourteen percent of the population 
create thirty nine percent of the crime
Fifty seven percent of USA male prisoners 
come from live's of poverty
Seventy two percent of USA female prisoners 
come from lives of poverty
The...

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Categories: thirty nine, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
The Mysteries of Gomer and Tarish
First off Biblical scholars have compared to Gomer to: Being part of the nation of Tomagrath or modern day turkey! Pastor John Hagee, of Cornerstone Church as compared Gomer to the modern day nation of...

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Categories: thirty nine, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When Friday Comes
PHARISEES with questionable motives: "Jesus, Herod desires to kill you".  <<    JESUS: Tell Herod I am very busy performing miracles and healing people today and tomorrow. Tell him that the day...

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Categories: thirty nine, christian, easter,
Form: Prose
Our Family Reunions Are Strange, Part I
I will sometimes be asked how it came about
that my children have one set of grandparents,
and I know just what you are thinking now,
but hear me out, an all of this will make sense.

I’m explaining...

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Categories: thirty nine, confusion, family, humor, love, marriage, relationship, surreal,
Form: Narrative
The Tragedy Fades
At twenty-three, Brett found his girl,
A green-eyed vision with strawberry curls,
A year of dating came and went,
And wedding bells the sky did rent.

Life was good, he worked as a welder,
And rushed at night, tales to...

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Categories: thirty nine, depression, hope, loss, lost love, love, moving
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Waltz With Life
I was born, Bronx, New York, in the year 'Thirty-Nine',
   the first child with a brother who followed in time.
Ten years later, moved North, Hudson Valley, same State
   where I've settled,...

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Categories: thirty nine,
Form: Verse
Shame of Silence
In the year, nineteen an’ thirty-nine, 
in a small town that seemed not to care,
a little girl tried her very best
to dress well, and groom her dark hair.
She’d fight for her life—whatever it took,
an’ survive...

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Categories: thirty nine, sad, socialgirl, life, dark, dark, day, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Zero Gain
Murmur no things
or strings of sounds...
Could not care less
more-ish whispers
were Wicked
Whips of Words-
Weighted.
Tongue- lashing sharp
fork- tine Torture.
Cat-0-nine-one-one-tales...
Thirty-nine...
Forty-less-one
thrashing...
thrashing...
Thrashing...!
                  ...

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Categories: thirty nine, abuse, anti bullying, community, encouraging, for her,
Form: Free verse
New Years Day 2021
New year's day 2021

Disinclination regarding tradition
to make resolutions stance
adopted courtesy yours truly.

Though such proclamation
may smack of high treason
no matter convenience to season
and ideal time to leaven existence,
I discern no rhyme nor reason

to make a promise...

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Categories: thirty nine, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
A Cyclical Life
Here in the heavy depths of insolent woes,
We gesture and talk and waste our time,
Staking claim to each minute of our earthly life,
Running the hours through a clock by the day,
Never sated, not content to...

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Categories: thirty nine, life, lovewords, metaphor, beauty, beauty, poetry,
Form: Sestina
On Old Black Coat
IT HUNG IN THE SMOKEHOUSE FOR YEARS ON END,
JUST AN OLD BLACK COAT THAT NO ONE WOULD MEND.
THE LAST ONE TO WEAR IT WORE IT IN DEATH,
HE HAD IT ON WHEN HE BREATHED HIS LAST...

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Categories: thirty nine, nostalgianight, old, time, night, old, time,
Form: Narrative
Escalating Elephants
Is it not pleasurable to endorse an escalation of elephants using escalators in the tree lined shopping centre? Is it not welcomed the sight of strong strength upon steel rotations? Variable tusk equals variations of...

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Categories: thirty nine, allah, analogy, animal,
Form: I do not know?
The Fate of the Flying Dutchman
Gather friends if you care to hear, I’ll favor you with a tale
About the fate of a gallant ship that long ago did sail
Built of the finest teak wood in the year sixteen-thirty-nine
A three mast...

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Categories: thirty nine, fantasy, mystery, seajourney, ocean, , fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Go Granny Go
Granny’s been a worrying the neighbors, as she drives without delay.
She takes off, in her golf cart, driving one handed, waving all, good day.
Pealing out of the driveway on two wheels begins her trips, come...

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Categories: thirty nine, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination, old, old,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Age Doesn'T Matter When Your In Love
This is all from my heart
It's all apart of my conciseness
And there's no perversions
I'm coming to you with true love
Just one step below agape love

You were thirteen I was eighteen
Your just starting puberty
You're, you are...

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Categories: thirty nine, cute love, destiny, encouraging, engagement, for her,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Spring Part 2
Since the spring saw us calving out fifty or more first time heifers it 
was a lot more important to have help from a night herder.  Well I fit that bill.  Billy 
had...

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Categories: thirty nine, cowboy-western, funny, me, time,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
In eighteen seventy nine; twenty second of January 
Was the day of a great battle and for the Zulus victory 
At Isandlwana the Zulu army showed no fear
Against British guns, armed with shield and spear....

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Categories: thirty nine, africa, england, river, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Nineteen Seventies
They talk about how the country these days,
has fallen into such a Goddamn mess.
It’s worse than anyone has ever seen,
must have forgot the seventies, I guess.

They talk about how the ex-president,
did not do things the...

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Categories: thirty nine, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Young Boy At the Start of World War Two Remembers
Came from a very good loving family in a small Kansas town just as World War Two 
was about to break out, it was nineteen thirty nine
As a very small child I remember hearing Walter...

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Categories: thirty nine, nostalgiadad, me, war, child, dad, me, war,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sixteen Zero Three Huntington Court
I fell in love with the Sixteen Zero Three when I was eight.
I was fifty-eight before someone located the owners who had moved on 
Thirty-nine years had passed since anyone had inquired.
I had coveted the...

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Categories: thirty nine, 10th grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs