Movements
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Life moves time along
relentlessly
Old-timers swept along
resistantly
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Categories:
old timers, life, moving on, time,
Form: Rhyme
Baseball In Heaven
...This is the story of two all-time great baseball pitchers who are both in the Hall-of-Fame. So, the story goes like this. Last week the old-timers both well into their nineties, were out together at ...
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Categories:
old timers, baseball, friendship, heaven,
Form: Haibun
Prospecting for Gold
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Prospecting for gold
in a mosquito-infested ravine
The junior explorers all mighty keen
to prove their skeptics curmudgeony scolds
And sure enough, they return all gap-too...
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Categories:
old timers, adventure, children, humor, success,
Form: Quatrain
Bengaluru Now, I Witness You!
...Silicon city
That pulsates,
Both day and night,
The Tech Capital
And the sky, veiled
With urban haze
And dense, sprawling cityscape.
Grey city of its
Gridlocked roads
Surrounded by
Toweri...
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Categories:
old timers, anxiety, appreciation, city, life,
Form: Free verse
We Kids Sled
...We kids sled
past the home of so-long-ago.
We kids wear
snow-black boots and warm
mittens. We kids sled,
on a cold sunny day,
across the Vale’s backyard;
Old-timers let
us kids sled
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Categories:
old timers, childhood, winter,
Form: Verse
Jim's Glimpse of the MerWoman
...Jim had only glimpsed the gorgeous merwomen once
But he never forgot her gray-eyed stare
She had bored pinpricks through his surprised eyes
Was her hair real or imagined?
Jim recalled coral, st...
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Categories:
old timers, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
senile stork
...Senile Stork is out of control again
He brought a full sized eight-year-old to the newcomers
They were irritated to the max
Why don’t they retire that old bird?
It is not easy getting rid of th...
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Categories:
old timers, animal,
Form: Free verse
New Sort of Wave
...A - rresting beneath dancing fingered fronds palming zephyr's touch.
B - each building sand castles throughout dawning sunlight.
C - rumbling granules of fate in the noonday sun.
D - esigns creati...
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Categories:
old timers, allusion, analogy, beach, beautiful,
Form: Abecedarian
Corner of the Bayou in New Orleans
...Old timers say there’s a corner of the bayou in New Orleans
Where booby footed pelicans and pink lovebirds are seen
in a totem made along with turtle who has a needle nose
and wildly colored chame...
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Categories:
old timers, water,
Form: Rhyme
The Dying Breed
...Old timers, history;4th/5th generation
The friends we knew, now just memories
A forgotten world past, new bringing
AI, technology; what is it we become
The past barely existing, rotting away
L...
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Categories:
old timers, absence, change, conflict, humanity,
Form: Narrative
Mismatched Sock Puppets
...What do you do with a mismatched sock? Asked my dear.
The puppet squad a laughed when they heard this cheer.
Their googly eyes went round and round, in a wild way.
“We want some new friends by the...
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Categories:
old timers, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Thankful For Baseballand Babe Ruth
...May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life
that have, for us, thus far accrued…
and to begin each day with a word of thanks…
and thoughts of gratitude.
Today I’m thankful for ...
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Categories:
old timers, baseball, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Clotheslines
...The old timers complain nowadays,
about how modern technology.
Is stealing away all their secrets and,
selling everyone's privacy.
Information is left up for grabs,
exposed for all of the wor...
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Categories:
old timers, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Square Root of Beirut
...The Square Root of Beiruit
Ten men bending while theyre pretending to be near the ending
A capitalist nightmare glares like rotten fruit
The squate root of Beiruit
No it isn’t fair, so they’l...
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Categories:
old timers, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
At the Third Stroke
..."At the Third Stroke.
It will be four, four, and 40 seconds, precisely."
"At the Third Stroke.
It will be four, four, and 55 seconds, precisely."
Old timers like me can remember
when time was vo...
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Categories:
old timers, grandfather, time,
Form: Free verse
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