Old Times
Old Times
Sometimes walking can be a journey into the past
Sometimes, but always, this is a lifestyle
Hmm. Take a walk in a cemetery?
Yes. Switched off the present
Old gravestones are glittering
Beautiful music is heard
Calling another life
The passed souls are
dancing from their lives
Happy people live in the past
Switched off my present
I stay with them
I live there
Stay
The past
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Categories:
old times, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
Dime Bag Days
Take me back to the dime bag days
when we were hotel hippies,
thirsty for trouble and stuck in a state
of delirium.
Our souls were scattered messes
among the unbent hills -
dreaming of rebellion and freedom,
pockets
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Categories:
old times, addiction,
Form: Free verse
I Hope It Dies
The thought of me that came into your mind,
It grew;
It blossomed;
You thwarted it;
Hopefully you are letting it wilt and die.
I do not want to ignite old flames.
I want to believe your words were true;
After all you said them,
But my mind acts as if it has a mind of its own.
It's been months but still it
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Categories:
old times, blue, break up, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry
Old Times
Over the years things have changed.
Looking back at the funny photos.
Dad wore sneakers on the beach.
Time where have you gone?
Ineed a memory replay.
Mom with her apron on.
Eeating home cooked meals.
Smells did linger though the house.
Date Written: 11/26/2020
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Categories:
old times, beach, family, food, fun,
Form: Acrostic
Old Times and New Times
old times and knew times
I was thinking about how I live now in a big apartment
with four bedrooms and their bathroom, and I study for me.
As a child, my mother and two other siblings had two
rooms and half a kitchen; the other half belonged to a woman
who had one room and two children.
She
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Categories:
old times, beautiful, birth, books, car,
Form: Blank verse
Old Times Time
Do you remember
Skipping with a rope..alone
Or catching 'jacks' with stones.
Do you recall
Tennis against an old brick wall
Or conker contests in the fall.
Did you chalk out hopscotch squares
Play make believe,games of dare
Hide and seek or touch and run
In a childhood wrapped in fun.
Is simplicity a thing of the past
Will life in a circle turn
Will common sense..return?
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Categories:
old times, childhood, remember, time,
Form: Verse
Old Times Tell
L-et
O-ne
U-nique
I-dea
S-imply
A-pply
M-essage
A-bout
Y-oung
A-ge
L-etting
C-omposer's
O-ld
T-imes
T-ell
Topic: Birthday of Poetess Louisa May Alcott (November 29)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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Categories:
old times, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
Just Like Old Times
Bumped into a friend
just yesterday
I was driving my car
and she got in the way
She said nothing was broken
the impact was minor
Mostly bruises and cuts
and a pretty good shiner
I took her to breakfast
and told her a joke
She was laughing so hard
she started to choke
I gave her the Heimlich
and then she was fine
While everyone cheered
we continued to
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Categories:
old times, funny, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Good Old Times
(none fiction)
Young and stupid old and wise.
I did my first piecing myself.
Young and stupid old and wise.
Followed by my second piecing from a dare.
My nose felt like it was on fire and that piercing took me a week.
Young and stupid old and wise.
Followed by my third piecing of my tongue on a bet.dad did not
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Categories:
old times, funny,
Form: Free verse
Old Times
Old journal page
Yellow with age
Flip through old times
Feel mellow chimes
Word pictures tell
Zest that cast spells
Here and there browse
Odd smiles arouse
Each peek now hooks
Feel in this book
Writes in clear jot
Once felt so hot
Frozen thoughts thaw
Old memoirs raw
I come to see
Flash memory
Old times can meet
On goodbye streets
Leon Enriquez
20 September 2017
Singapore
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Categories:
old times, change,
Form: Couplet
Old Times
Craft charming cheer as apt art aims,
Love makes all things to fashion proof;
Align feelings to play life's game,
Sense how time flings a lasting truth;
See that you see the way turn wild,
Instruct your heart to know your soul;
Claim what will be your prize my child.
Opt poignant start to discern whole,
Last light hurls here when day departs;
Dance
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Categories:
old times, change,
Form: Sonnet
Old Times
Go quickly now
Purge why and how
Dance in that dream
Ooze in lost streams
Go fade away
Thus ends last day
Watch old times die
Beyond those highs
Go when you can
Exit old span
Tact follows act
Don't just react
Go with a smile
Know ends that style
One for the road
Unleash old loads
Go with the wind
Unknown, unseen
Leon Enriquez
17 January 2017
Singapore
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Categories:
old times, change,
Form: Couplet
Old Times
Observe the flow of dancing light,
Urge joy to thrill that precious whole;
Reach for that glow that sparkles sight.
Glimpse how love feels in your own soul,
Oblige the cast of poignant zest;
Outlive the craze in inner child,
Dance first and last your affluent best.
Oomph floods the daze in thoughts gone wild,
Live deep delight where time stands still;
Defy the
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Categories:
old times, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Old Times
Old times speak soft
From poignant loft
Here and now hurl
As moments curls
Times once so fresh
Now distant flash
Change and old age
Cast a new page
Here we are dear
Wrinkles of cheer
So much now past
To feel at last
Old times loiter
Mind games foibles
Old primal tease
Awkward odd ease
Fumble with form
Change alters norm
Yet grace frees truth
To fact new proof
Here face to face
Old times
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Categories:
old times, allusion,
Form: Couplet
Old Times and New
Old Times and New
I travel in my wandering mind
To a different day and time
Back to the mid-40's
When a cute young secretary was I.
Back when dresses marked size 14
Are current day skimpy 10s,
That's where this reminiscing poem
Is about to begin.
Copying documents or research for themes
Required an old Xerox machine;
Filled with fluid and a tray
It was the
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Categories:
old times, nostalgia, , cute,
Form: Light Verse
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