Long Three score and ten Poems

If anybody ever asks me about my feelings and thoughts about Life,
I would tell them how and when it all started, meeting you, that is.
I would tell them the place where and how and to...

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He was growing old and senile and his hair began to fall,
And he perched on a stool to tell accounts of the past,
Of how he’d fought for his country and of his manifold valiant deeds,
Speaking...

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Three score and ten:

The seconds turn into minutes, then to hours.
The hours spin into days, then weeks will fly by.
The weeks then quickly dissolve into many months.

The months that fleet and fly by into such...

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I’ve lived a full three score and ten and seen a thing or two,
of life and death and love and hurt and pleasure.
Is it just age or memory that now distorts my view
of things that...

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Now having reached three score and ten
it sounds like fun to just look back
over the years that's gone by
it's a wonder all I've had on track

Born two days after Santa's day
adopted at 6 weeks by...

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Today is April Twenty Third
By Franklin  Price
4/23/2018

Today is April twenty third,
It's the best day of my life.
In the event, you haven't heard,
It's the birthday, of  Barb, my wife.

Today she is three score and...

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Alone---within myself,
I harbor myself and no other.
Proven by DNA and fingerprints,
even the likeness of my brother,
is different from me.  
As I from you
and you from he.  
One mind developed.
One soul enveloped,
one promise of...

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All the soldiers stood proudly gleaming white,
For years they all were smiling bright,
Then one by one off they went to fight.
One by one by the enemy they were got,
And one by one they fell to...

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The grieving process have just begun,
My heart is filled with pain.
The sorrow, and lost is hard to bear,
Reality kicks in, in life the fact remain.

Death is a part of life though hard it may seem,
The...

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Dear Lord,
I know the end is soon to come
My frightened heart beats like a drum

Past events in visual recall
In rapid succession I appraise them all

WAS this my life after three score and ten
The avariciousness of...

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Borrowed Time
Tom
5/17/2018

November 15th 2016, spinal stenosis surgery left me not at my best,
On December 27th, during Open Heart Surgery, they cracked my chest.
And three days later on January 1st I experienced Sudden Cardiac Arrest, 
God...

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AGE comes upon. us gradually,realisation
hits us all of a sudden.Hearing no longer
acute,coments and questions will need a
repeat for our world is no longer distinct.
One day we need assistance with what
others voice and say.Deficient,an aid. to
complement...

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O sweet lamb of God,
giver and Ruler of my life.
In whose steps I would trod.
Whose mercy to forgive is rife.

You are with me every day.
In all my thoughts and indecision,
guiding as a light the way,
of...

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My goal's to reach a hundred
my friend he said to me.
What, runs in cricket, drinking pints?
No years you dope, said he.

I want to live to be a ton,
a century I must reach.
Why on earth do...

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This is a question to really shock you
as  folk get into a panic to buy gifts
racking their brains what do they get?
when the receiver really hasn't got a clue

Now nearly reaching my three score...

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I've done my time past sixty nine,
I've reached three score and ten.
I've seen a lot but not as much as some,
What I see makes them look quite glum.
Their aches and pains and wobbly walk,
The tablets...

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Here I am nearly reached three score and ten
life has passed on through my years
it's been eventful that's certain for sure
but have survived it with no tears

Nerves have ruled most of my life
been a battle...

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Having lived nearly three score and ten
these years have known of evidence royal
for all my days Queen Elizabeth II reigned
now passed to glory her majesty so loyal

Looking back on these memorable years
so much to be...

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Lo, silver strand vertical
from chest to chest
you doth go

exhale the breath of God
breath of life from His mouth
inhaled to the lungs of of human host

LO! YON SILVER STRAND OF Life-

lovely is the dawn of day
creation...

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Great beauty lies not in my three score and ten body
Or in my bent arthiritic frame encapsulated in fragility
Nor does it lie in my wrinkled skin covered in age freckles
Oh no, geat beauty lies within...

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I heard an old graveyard, whisp’ring my name
Old stones reside there, seemed friendlier, that game
Tho not having met my three score and ten
I'm thinking these thoughts, my beginning to end?

Regrets I have many, desires not...

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The Dues I Pay

There are so many hues in the colour gray.
That colour fills – are dues I must pay
for how I have lived – my used up day
upon this plane – a misty cover...

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Beginnings.  In-between. Endings

Distances between penetration and penetration
is but a brief moment towards creation of life.

Life exists within its warm protective watery universe.
A window opens, life sees first light of day through a gap.

This Holy...

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Three score and ten
that leaves me five
should I be glad
I’m still alive

Three score and ten
may seem a lot
until you reach
the halfway slot.

But when there’s
only five at last
the other sixty
flew by fast.

But maybe
I’ll be granted more
if...

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Read Only File
2/22/22
Miracle Man

Each day I add to my read only file,
as time breathes my present to past.
Many things there warrant a smile,
But many names and faces are glassed.

Entries made there cannot be changed,
though password...

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