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Life After Eighty
...I remember when my father was in his early nineties And I had taken him out to buy a few things he liked for snacks When he saw a m......
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Sara Kendrick
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
age,
Form:
Free verse
Circle In The Sand
... Circle in the sand could tell a story of a lost world, where celestials and machines were one. A crafty place where symbiosis is tasted on the tongue. Chimera epoxies ely......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
art,
Form:
Rhyme
Magnum Opus
...My girlfriend is not a poet in the way that most people mean. She is a collector of rare and valuable information. Today, she told me about cats & the color of their coats. We adopted a kitten......
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C.W. Bryan
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
cat,
Form:
Free verse
Death In the Doorway
...death's stood in the doorway but i'm no good with words so my pleas for mercy come in the form of fresh bandages on old wounds and plastering my vices on greeting cards though the reaper argu......
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Maria Mo
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
angst, extended metaphor, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse V
...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE V Less Heroic Couplets: Word to the Unwise by Michael R. Burch I wanted to be good as gold, but being good, as I’ve been told, requires something, discipline, ......
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Michael Burch
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
funny, funny love, giggle,
Form:
Rhyme
The 30th Anniversary of Michael Robbins' Death
...r career. Time sure does fly, it doesn't seem like you've been dead for thirty years. You starred in every season of "On The Buses" except for the final season. I don't know why you decided to quit but you must have had a good reason. You guest-starred in "One Foot In The Grave" and "Turn Out The Lights". You also guest-starred in "The Count Of Monte Cristo" and "First Night". You chose not to be buried, you were cremated. When you died, all of your......
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Randy Johnson
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
anniversary, celebrity, death, england,
Form:
Rhyme
World On a String
...World on a string By Michelle Morris 23/11/2022 You want everyone to think You've got the world on a string But no one seems to realise You're struggling with everything All your parties a......
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Michelle Morris
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
courage, life, meaningful, motivation,
Form:
Lyric
One Foot In the Grave
... I almost died the other day but fate said to wait for another day I was walking along & the world looked surreal Not imagining that it was really real. I felt like there was a ......
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Sheila Van Zant
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
care, death, fate, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Halfway There
...Told my girlfriend ‘I’m halfway there’ She figured I was thirty-five… After she’d done up and married me I told her I’ve one foot in the grave ~ yet still alive......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
age, girlfriend, grave, life,
Form:
Light Verse
The Crystal Palace
...Agonizing hours blend int days, Morning, noon, and night; Trivial things, mere details, Who spends time thinking about What means nothing to you? Poisonous clouds infect the air, Invading and......
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Evan Moore
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
addiction, dark, drug, extended
Form:
Free verse
When I Grow Old
...I was asked to write a poem About when I’d grow old….. But really that’s the joke, For I already am, old and terribly cold. And looking back I realize How time has passed me by. It’s like a......
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Victor Buhagiar
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
age, old,
Form:
Light Verse
Beware Tomorrow
...Be not soft upon the morrow For the maliciousness it contrives. The future beckons unending sorrow To gamely catch the vulture's eye. 'Tis the destiny of mice and men To be laid waste by natur......
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David Mchattie
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
dark, humanity, judgement,
Form:
Rhyme
Whisper of Death
...My life spirals ever downward... The grave taunts me with its laugh. Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat As the jester of my unmerited epitaph. My angst at my ever-flounder appears Well......
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David Mchattie
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
angst, confusion, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Intervals
...Intervals We live our life, one foot in the grave. There are many dangers please try to be brave. Fear dwells in the shadows, proceed with care. Live life to the fullest, but only if yo......
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Mark Koplin
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Game
...Everyone has a soul to save Somewhere in time from cradle to grave Everyone dies as each one must Flesh to bone to ashes to dust Time brings age as do we all Every rise is followed by a fall ......
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Jeff W. Watson
Categories:
one foot in the grave,
allegory, allusion, analogy, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
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