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The JourneyHe always brought the subject up at the most inappropriate time, usually when someone was trying to kill us.
Are you a believer now?
If I get out of this, I’ll think about it. We got out...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, death, faith, god, war,
Form:
Free verse
The JourneyHe always brought the subject up at the most inappropriate of times, usually when some c**t was trying to kill us.
Are you a believer now?
If I get out of this, I’ll think about it. We...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, death, god, war, women,
Form:
Free verse
The Train - POTD POTD 25 Nov 2020
Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares
I do get it about advertising campaigns.
Enough to know that,
‘strategically placed ads’ catching the eye, is huge.
But this poster...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Chuck JenningsThe bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure them by saying that everything would be fine
And after six...
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we have seen better days, america, death, soldier, world war ii,
Form:
Narrative
Murdered By My Own ShadowCold misty clouds rise above the grates
The streets only illumination, tossing shadows like pennies
Faded street lamps at each end
The cold is biting, as I roll the collar over my neck
I received a call earlier that...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, dark, fantasy, murder, mystery,
Form:
Light Verse
Edith's Hefty HandbagEdith had been suffering from shoulder pain
She'd developed a stoop and only her left shoulder would sag
When she went to see her doctor
He put all the blame on her weighty handbag
One afternoon she had time...
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we have seen better days, humor, humorous, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Our World Changing, Not For the Better - PotdIt's not hard to see or tell this world of ours
Isn't the same as it used to be. Granted, it has
Never been perfect, but I've seen better days
I've become numb to a cavalcade...
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we have seen better days, anger, emotions, life, political, simile, world,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Everything Aches'Everything Aches'
Oh my arms do ache as I write down this prose
Most days it feels like the pain goes all the way to my toes
Bring me back lazy days lying...
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we have seen better days, cry, how i feel, hurt, pain, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
You Are My Everything
I am writing this poem to my husband ...
I met you at the art gallery
and will never forget that day
my eyes grazed over you
and I was left breathless
so handsome, though
I thought you needed a...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, love,
Form:
Free verse
My Red Bike and MeI learned on a relic...quite bent out of shape,
rusty and dented..... and not even quaint!..,
An rattle-trap, hand-me-down, that had seen better days
A ten year...
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we have seen better days, childhood, fantasy, happinesstime, me, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tale of An Old ViolinThere she stands, an old violin
She has no string and no bow
Who would want such an old violin
Is what everyone wants to know.
She is scratched up and battered,
Broken, used up and torn
She has seen better...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, deep, music,
Form:
Rhyme
A Luxury Anyone Can Afford And PricelessThere are times in our lives
We see something others don't see
Or don't want to see.
Many years ago
I was sat in a park enjoying the warm weather. The birds were chirping
The trees and grass were...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, blessing, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Old Old-West TownWeeds and grass grow in the cracks
of sun-faded, crumbling pavement,
a parking lot that once was full
of stressed parents and cowboys nascent.
A grand sign over the entry
now is rotted two-thirds away,
this old piece of my childhood
truly...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, appreciation, childhood, eulogy, history, loss, remember, sad,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here - RepostNote: Reposted for my good friend John Hamilton who remembered I wrote this when I didn’t
I was just sitting there writing when I saw her stroll in,
I wasn’t alone, all eyes followed those...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, good night,
Form:
Free verse
Penniessmooth smoke lay down low
shine like diamonds in the snow
conflicted potions you know
are begged by many and many stole
in a trash can town in Tennessee
the pain in yous eyes is plain to see
but your young...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, imagination, inspirationalfire, fire,
Form:
I do not know?
Love Shared At the Bottom of the PyramidOpen hearts to victims of neglect
In communities immunized from kindness
Hardened by design to the core to select
The affluent whose blindness and fondness for coldness and heartlessness
Shunt aside concerns of the bottom of the pyramid
Whose human...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, poems,
Form:
Free verse
I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here
I was just sitting there writing when I saw her stroll in,
I wasn’t alone, all eyes followed those curves sashaying
as if she owned the place and maybe she did. . .
if...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, beauty, poetry,
Form:
Epic
Interview With a Dying Tree"Nope, nope, nope! I already know why you're here. Don't you dare fell me with that chainsaw!," exclaims the dying tree.
"Well, I need firewood. It's rather obvious you've seen better days", I said.
"Why shouldn't I...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, tree,
Form:
Personification
Rock 'N' Roll Heals SoulsWe've been given three months to leave
- How on earth will it be possible to pack
Sixty years of family, what we've achieved
Sentimental objects we can't claim back
Assured the kids we're more than capable
Taking care...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, age, appreciation, freedom, games, music,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old DogAt a point where the old road meets the hill
and runs down the other side
There's an old tin shed that's standing, still
and a grave where the old dog died
He surely had seen better days
when our...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, animal, death, dog, emotions, life,
Form:
Ballad
As IsIt was amazing
When we first met
Sort of like Romeo and Juliet
But I was quickly
Able to see
What she had in store
First the pictures in my man cave
We're taken down
And then thrown away
But the last...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, conflict, funny, hyperbole, life, music, relationship, song,
Form:
Lyric
Old House Tour" Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house; can you hear the whispering?" - Constance La France.
dilapidated and weather-beaten,
...
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we have seen better days, house, imagery, old,
Form:
Imagism
A Family In Desperation(I composed this after seeing a picture of a family of father, mother, and two small
boys resting on the bare ground alongside a freight train. They had their few
possessions with them and...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, familyfather, family, family, father, life,
Form:
Rhyme
For Leerie and IllyOh my dear Leerie and Illy
My sisters you are not so silly.
Yes I have endured such pain
A lot that my tears fall like rain.
Yes this pain is way too deep.
In my soul it has surely...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, dedication, depression, family, introspection, life, loss, lost
Form:
Heroic Couplet
A Morning In MayIf I were to tell you
Of a Saturday in May,
Of lying in bed as the sun came up
And brightened the room;
If I were to tell you
Of the fluttering curtains,
Of the cool air flooding in
And how...
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Categories:
we have seen better days, feelings, may,
Form:
Blank verse