Seventy One Poems - Poems about Seventy One

...Underneath the Southern Cross, the comet makes its way, A trail of greenish fire, igniting night from day. It came from distant realms, from icy, darkened space, Returning after decades, with it......Read the rest...

...I used to be able to dance and sing Seventy-one has a different ring My ankles are screaming in pain right now Teeth are cracked and broken, cannot eat cow Would walk with a limp if I thought I......Read the rest...

...I want to kill my classmates she told me. You don’t mean that, I said. She shakes her head up and down. I would love it if they were slaughtered. I am surprised, she is an innocent looking six-yea......Read the rest...

...I am seventy-one I could die at any second. I tell this to my nurse. She says “stop!” She calls me silly. I am seventy-one. I like it. I had a peanut butter cup and creamed soda for breakfas......Read the rest...

...A tiny bit of surgery will turn you into a cat I loved the idea, and told my cousin, Rat. He rolled his eyes saying it would be dumb to do. What does he know? He is a mere baby, only forty-two. ......Read the rest...

...At the doctor’s office I spend time observing the others They have no idea I am doing it For I am staring at my phone, instead of them Taking sneak peek glances. no one sees me anyway. At seven......Read the rest...

...I did not hesitate for one second. I am an elementary school counselor. I get to play with children. They uplift me, and delight me. I do my best to stop their tears and get them back to clas......Read the rest...

...I usually do not bring in a photo when I get my hair cut. But today I felt like it. So I did. This is what I want my hair to look like. The hairdresser stares at it. We can do that. I won’t loo......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Had I not known I was already dead I might have mourned my own passing. —Ota Dokan, loose transla......Read the rest...

...Michelangelo was seventy-one years young when he began designing St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican’s Dome Lying on scaffolds for hours a day, it was a labor of love His final hurrah, a worthwhile sacri......Read the rest...

...They sat on a bog log. eating some hot lunch. And when it was all gone plugged their axes into a stump. Frog says to fiddler. I won't let it go, son. Seventy-one years old it's on a long run. ......Read the rest...

...Caught with the heart of a gypsy that longs for what says 'I'll never let you go.'......Read the rest...

...He said, "Old folks ain't worth nothing." He said, "I'm thirty! and if you're over thirty you ain't nothing." I said, "That's a lie! I'm seventy-one and young at heart." He hadn't seen me sunnin......Read the rest...

...He said, "Old folks ain't worth a damn. I'm thirty, and if you're over thirty you ain't nothing." I said... "That's a lie! I'm seventy-one and young at heart. He hadn't seen me......Read the rest...

...Martin Luther King junior was the inspiration For the Northern Ireland, Civil Rights association Protests were held and they marched peacefully The unionist majority tried to stop them brutall......Read the rest...