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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

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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



Premium MemberOld 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

Premium MemberOld 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

Premium MemberOld 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

Premium MemberOld 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

Premium MemberOld 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

Premium MemberOld 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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