Nineteen Poems - Poems about Nineteen

Nestled is the slender twisting trail canyon between timeless steep aspiring mountains and meditative sopheric sea waters The frail road deepens into lofty thickness further from the harsh volcanic valley where passion’s throes are ever in abeyance as days grind on at a petty pace, as winding cathartic minds strive to be free and leave their fears...

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A month named after Maia A transition from spring to summer 24 rotations on its axis 19 circles round the sun a boy born, his future uncertain years of hardship, keep enduring pain Heart shattered at 16 and haven't recovered from the loss her body cremated and ashes in the river never got a chance to bid farewell turned 17, oh what a...

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What is the cost of one space toilet, dear? Nineteen million, the price point is clear. Why is it so costly? What makes it great? Astronaut waste is stored for a later dumping date Sent into earth’s atmosphere where it burns up Urine is recycled for drinking. Go fetch your cup....

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Rockin' tough Rockin' touch Rocket rock star's Still in love Hallowed halls of Doobie's lair The Sunset Gang Played air band there Mr. Salty Zimmer-cam Winkles and The Ramel's jam Wildman Screaming Me Pounded sounds On Adams Street Check us out On cable TV It's Sticks Rambo and Company Again its Nineteen Eighty Three...

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I am nineteen but I look seventy-two weird maybe to those who are not here yet in my heart I am singing and dancing my arthritic ankles are laughing at me I do not hear them choosing to be young me as opposed to old me my heart is full of joy I am not cynical only grouchy with one person my husband, who must not...

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Mardi Gras of twenty nineteen Was the best parade I have ever seen If anyone can top it, it will be New Orleans Where I hope someday to become the Mardi Gras Queen...

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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 same way they use to. But they must have forgotten all about, Tricky Dicky back in seventy-two. Congress showed us another bill they...

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Nineteen, your up next in my story The anticipation, the fear, the wonder of what will be written on your pages Is almost too much to bear. Nineteen, this is dawning on me all the sudden Should I feel older? While constantly being told to enjoy my youth Nineteen, please wait, hold...

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[Wrote this during Covid in a ‘Ring a ring a roses’ frame of mind. Wasn’t sure what archaic rules were in place around the world, so sat on it. Basically… in England, ‘other people’ were ‘death on legs’. This may or may not sound amusing but it’s pretty much how it was… laugh ye not!] ...

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She was just a teen girl When she got to know this cruel world And now her friends are only five That charming girl is no more alive She looked in the mirror As she knew mirror never lie Finds herself lonely in the corner And wanted herself to die The pain she endure is not reel She's just hiding how she feel The...

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Nineteen was the year that I knew everything I got married and pregnant that year. I was svelte and smart and confident. Nineteen was one of my favorite years ever. I made a lovely nineteen-year-old bride. Nineteen was the beginning of most of my favorite years. Nineteen 52, my birth year Nineteen 64, the year I turned twelve and knew I was...

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And I would be twenty in a month with the confidence that I had the world to explore. I could see the horizon out in the beyond and time was most assuredly my ally. It was a time of opportunities ripe for expanding my imagination and unfurling my wings. Youth was this verdant time of potential and I felt like a magician's...

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The nineteen fifties were an innocent time. We could buy a comic book with a nickel and dime. Our dances were lively, but girls wore shorts under a dress. Being tossed by the boys, who never went around shirtless. Malt shops were on corners, and we could have a cherry coke. We were protective of each other. Friendly, we always...

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U K minus queen, where All's not as it seems; the crowds Will Gather, there will be much piety and blather, shoulders To be rubbed, as people dive into the hub-bub at the Shop restaurant golf club or pub, has something been Forgotten? that prior was reported ; of ad-nausem top To bottom, covid...

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Way too easy, when you look at me like you can see words wade in slow draw in breath, like a magic key two eyes and all the wonders they show For me it doesn't come so easy the specter of nineteen dealin' in failure wins and winds my tongue Never knew where it grew between the creased parlor lights made to start What...

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