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Age is a gradual process, So gradual, one doesn't notice Changes until they are so defined That they start to affect your mind, Sometimes, more than I care to say, My mind is elsewhere is where it stays. I try to pretend I am not old, Days when the fog clears, I feel bold, Until I undress myself to shower, Which could take an...

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Categories: long in the tooth, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine... his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021 No particular rhyme nor reason garden variety indentured flunky (me) revisits his salmagundi salad days, when oral blight smote left front adult tooth, which hellacious quandary commenced when yours truly experienced broken said central incisor. Inxs of cold playing air froze natural pond, where...

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Categories: long in the tooth, 2nd grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Long In the Tooth
Long In The Tooth By: Miracle Man 8/8/2019 I’m now eighty and considered “long in the tooth,” And so, many former things, are now verboten. Today, I rest, in the shadow of God’s truth, Recounting life teachings that I’ve not forgotten. ...

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Categories: long in the tooth, age, god, truth,
Form: Lyric
Long In the Tooth Skeptic
Long In The Tooth Skeptic,... Nonetheless Rooted With Gumption Implicit virtue of humankind figuratively locked horns with vice, yet time and again this mortal celibate, (not by choice) sexagenarian thrice older father of deux priceless young women chock full, sans esprit de corps exude radiant ump pa vital to add spice to an otherwise humdrum life, begat by reproductive cells smaller than a grain of rice, yet...

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Categories: long in the tooth, art, celebration, daughter, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Long In the Tooth
I went to the Dentist to pull a tooth And patiently sat in the waiting booth. All the kids stared at my giant bucktooth; Needless to say they were very uncouth. My Dentist, who only worked on us youth, With all her might pulled out a real shark tooth. Honest, I’m not fooling; I’ll show you proof. It’s the size of a...

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Categories: long in the tooth, childhood, humorous,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



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His scheme was to choose someone older At first she just gave the cold shoulder He soon won her over His life was in clover Except when she begged him to hold her! His plan was to be very rich To run with her money, then ditch He plotted and schemed His head filled with dreams They flew to Las Vegas…got hitched!! His new...

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Categories: long in the tooth, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Bit Long In the Tooth!
He was told, "Yes, you have grounds for divorce!" His new lawyer, said, "We will win...of course!" A pretty 'filly' back then But his love faded just when... She had started to look more like a horse!...

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Categories: long in the tooth, funny
Form: Limerick

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