One Hundredth Poems - Poems about One Hundredth

BE SMART

...
It’s okay to be ... me. 
Exercising the brain. Setting it free. 
Always seeking for more. 
Never give up, never surrender 
To be right all the time is a flaw 
Just striving to be the best I ca...

No Cents or Nickels

...
One "cent" is one-hundredth of a dollar.
It is often mistaken for its British counterpart, the penny.
They are worth so little these days.
Now, a suggestion has been presented:
The Unit...

Bittersweet Kiss

...We flirted and got closer throughout the day.
Not wanting to get caught, I pray in vain.
Our plans were just a matter of waiting.
Out in the parking lot, I stood patient.
He arrived casual and sm...

A Hunger Unfed

...from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a layer of stumbled steps, with a batter thickly made of le...

If I Were Your Love

...Three-hundred milligrams
Approximately one-hundredth of a fluid ounce
Three-hundred milligrams of water a day, I’d die
Three-hundred milligrams of caffeine after three
I find myself staying up al...

Summer Going Into the Fifth Grade

...Up on our old tar roof, Friday night, I watched football 
the high school was about a mile from my house. 
You could always hear it at night.  
I could see everything and nothing at the same time ...

Hull Cenotaph, Remembrance Sunday, 2018

...The Guildhall clock chimes
Eleven times this special day,
A great silence descends as
The two minutes tick away.
On parade at the Cenotaph,
An old man among old men
(Where did the years go for
...

A Fisherman's Wish

...In an isolated island where most people are fishermen, life was so hard.  One morning near the shore, a genie from a floating lamp appeared before a hundred fishermen and asked each one of them for a...

She Said I Will Be Back In a Jiffy

...she said i will be back in a jiffy
i said, dear, that is one-one hundredth
of a second
which is longer than a nanosecond
but i know your leagues
which are never lingering in parsecs
that adorab...

Quest

...for her sister's one hundredth birthday
      a new sweater purchase from a store blocks away
      a goal coveted, though for the aged, no such thing
                                             ...

Monoku Monday - Jan 2021

..."2020 Hindsight Collaboration"  Posted 4 Jan 2021

new year's resolutions      things that go in one year and out the other

I resolve to avoid all fatty and unhealthy... ...

Halloween Surprise

...He (she) was a surreal sight rocking in a huge red chair
beside the old house nearby. The bright orange hair,
painted face, polka dot clown suit, and grinning lips
were ludicrous. I was unnerved b...

Captain Tom

...Captain Tom
By Jan Beaumont ©

He was somebody we'd never heard of
Just a man quietly living his life
But a man who'd seen things that he shouldn't 
Like battle and horror and strife.

He was...

Trouble On the Bridge

...Twice I read a note my wife left for me 
"Be home by four-thirty, love you" - she wrote 
Twice I read a note my wife left for me 
My wife said she loves me, she wrote a note 

Yesterday was my o...

For My Dad On His One Hundredth Birthday

...I feel you hovering around me,
your presence, your spirit,
a feeling, like fingertips 
lightly grazing the skin. 
Ten years have passed 
since you shook off 
the coils of this world.  
Your pr...

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