Long Years young Poems

After serving six long hard years at Methacton State penitentiary...

as mini reunion number 
XLV fast approaches 
Saturday, April 30th, 7:00 pm 
until 10:00 pm
at The Trappe Tavern, 416 West 
Main Street, Trappe, PA 19426
regarding graduating...

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Thomas was walking through his favorite part of the forest,
where the overturned giant oak tree has been a sitting spot
for him since childhood, the part of the forest that is lit
a little bit thanks to...

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It is the winter of 1980.
I’m twenty-eight years young, 
Driving a red Mustang with glass T-tops,
Feeling all of my awesome sassiness, from toe
To Afro, when I notice the cards driving ahead of me
Are all slowing...

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On one dark and stormy night… on a local, lonely, wind swept moor,
A very young and slightly mad scientist did some craziness, for sure.
Now mind you, he was only 3 years young, but, yet, still...

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Tribute Poem, Dedicated To Memory Of Our Loving Father
( 1901- 1968 )

A man of great courage and iron nerve 
as a youth into trouble he would swerve
some had called him, brute, rascal or knave
yet none...

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[A cuppa with mademoiselle Fana Tesfagiorgis] 

I had just driven my ageless self into the Kaufmanns’ 1936–1939 
Frank Lloyd Wright-constructed Pennsylvania getaway:Falling Water Mansion– 
In a 1959 Harley Earl, Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, and in the...

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For my Dad and Mom (Dorothy) on Fathers Day.

 Albin J. Gruhn who passed away at the age of 94 years young. I Love You Dad and I am missing you so much! Robert

When Albin...

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The following is about my beloved father Albin J. Gruhn who passed away at the age of 94 years young. I Love You Dad and I am missing you so much! Robert

When Albin Gruhn got...

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Out of the mouse hole of my childhood,
made your first impression
on this sprouting brain,
enticed by the endless wonder
and entranced by the majestic splendor
of your colored two dimensional tales
that filled this void of a heart,
endings carved...

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I cannot forget Trayvon Martin - slain teen

no matter manifold more young people
unthinkingly killed, who spirits aspire
to ascend higher than a steeple.

revisited and slightly revised today
March 14th, 2021.

One deliberate shameful death,
whose demise linkedin
violent cessation of...

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On October 04, 2020 I turned sixty six years young and I still remain a beloved daughter of Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son.  And the best years of my own earthly life, have...

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At the beginning of my shift at Like Home Inclusive Care,  I always check in on Miss Rosa first. I usually check her vitals and get her ready for her breakfast.
She was one of...

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Mental Telepathy
Apathetic CharlaX
Wood yew like to have a super power like mental telepathy
then rally hear what people think
when they stare at you
and understand just what they think of you?
Like the movie liar liar with Carey?...

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Two hundred and twenty stories never written but etched in time

were removed on a day which started fine.  

The silver worms traveled down beneath the floors 

carrying those whose day (lest they know) would...

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October Country's the darkened moonlight sky is reflected in your eyes.
You have nothing hidden, and do not wear a disguise.
Whenever did you learn wisdom, and the golden keys
to becoming wise?  You no longer are...

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Honoring Master Poe, Darkened Verses That Saddest Of Truths Reveals

The infinite black, oozing forth relentlessly unholy and unmerciful dread
with infinite sad cries from those once innocent and now long since dead
Only evil, and its many...

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Growing up with smiling faces
Tripping over untied laces
Laughing with a light in our 
eyes
When exactly did the innocence 
die
Staring at my reflection, I 
watch 
Judgment morphs my features, 
in shock
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Will you...

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When I was thirteen years young, I filleted my upper right thigh.
47 times.
In one night.
In one hour.
I wrote suicide notes,
Every night. 
I folded them up and put them in a drawer where the hid.
Similar to...

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It has been raining everyday
The wet autumnal wind is here
And Mommy Maine just left us today
Peacefully.  She just expired, dear
This Ebony Queen was a century plus six years young
Mommy Maine never got old. Beautiful...

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A musical throng of 400,000 strong invaded a dairy farm in New York in 1969,
 which set fire to the 70’s; but there was no chance of me being there; 
I was a good girl,...

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Once I told a married Baptist missionary, I wanted to be one.  Carol said, "Roxanne, Everett needs missionaries too."  She meant I should bloom where I was planted.  But we both were...

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My dear dearest Maya, 

This fellow poet and friend grieves so at your passing,

You were a most wonderful world poetess,

Still, you were much much more,

That wonderful dancer in you gracing the stage,

So many enjoyed your...

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Our neighbor’s husband had died one day
The rumor was it was suicide
My father made me go cut her grass
It was over one hundred degrees outside

I hadn’t seen her in about six months
Ever since he had...

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I put some thought, random thought
Into life
Maybe I should take bigger bites instead  of nibbling
On it because it doesn’t seem to keep stretching after I reach the halfway mark
Doesn’t matter now because the water...

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CHRONICLES OF ALENE COLLINS
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Alene Collins, a tender soul in tumultuous terrain,
Touched by turmoil, torn by tenderness & pain.
She grew in her teenage testimonies, trials & tears,  
She's her grandparents' guiding light across the years.4

Separated...

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