Short Fifty One Poems

If you wish to taste
divorce then savor leg breaks
as appetizers...

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nineteen fifty one
and the day the earth stood still
scifi christ story


stan sand...

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There is no way that something 
that’s dismantling humanity
is a gateway to the stars....

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would life forms with a fifty one percent sadness rate ~ just go extinct 


By
David Kavanagh...

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A ROOM OF HER OWN


Byron died at thirty six
Prolific poet’s work was done
Lucky I am still alive
I had no time ‘til fifty one....

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you have nothing in common
we knew it, but we married anyway
you will not last
it has been over fifty-one years, so maybe they were wrong

you have different religions.
we know.
your backgrounds are totally opposite.
maybe that is why we work....

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It's fifty one degrees outside,
but it feels like forty five.
Rain is drip drop drizzling
and it drenches like a dive.

A cold wind chill is coming in,
perhaps that's why it feels this way,
or maybe because I'm splashing in puddles
and you and the sun don't want to play.

1/24/2020...

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A hand was put in my hand
I remember fifty years back
I still hold that hand firmly
Today unaltered.

Our wedding was accomplished
Exactly fifty one years back
The celebrations of it
Continues this day.

Anniversary is time
To celebrate today’s joy
The memories of yesterday
Hopes of tomorrow

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If we can’t agree on fifty-one percent
of what affects us both
we’re doomed
Like the baby and the bathwater
our future lost
in critical disdain

All politics of division
a self-imposed, self-righteous
Armageddon
The brotherhood of humanity
sacrificed
—on its dying altar of shame

(Tribute To Anthony Hopkins:  July, 2022)...

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Shariah had turquoise hair and rouge so red.
Usually people like this are copse, they’re dead.
She must be fifty-years old a teenager said.
I rolled my eyes, at this young corn-fed.

Fifty is my daughter’s age.
She is actually fifty-one, on a yearly gauge.
So for him to say fifty as if it is a hundred and two.
Made me extra feisty, so I gave him the bottom of my shoe....

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This is an event grander than any other.
A friend of mine has become a grandmother.
A girl was born to her son and daughter-in-law.
This is the cutest baby anyone ever saw.
Eight pounds, nine ounces, and fifty-one centimeters in length,
this baby girl named Ashley is the picture of strength.
This is a most blessed event.
There is a new life on the Australian continent....

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After thirty stares, he walks to the lady to impress, being a hip hop guy
he has recently not seen one this beautiful, confident, calm but not shy.
She counters his marvelous lines with: "I'm fifty-one years old."
and comforts him immediately with: "you're too young to be this bold."

YOUR BEST QUATRAIN Poetry Contest
by  L MILTON HANKINS
Published on the 8th. August. 2021...

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The weather became bitter cold today
And housebound I will stay
I went out to try and start the car
It's winter's coldest day by far.

Colder than the inside of a deep freeze they say
minus fifty one the thermometer does display
I keep turning up the heat
To warm my body especially my feet

I want  the cold spell to go away
Hoping for a warmer day
So you who have the sun and heat
A hot day would be a wonderful treat....

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In nineteen fifty one, brother Nigel 
died while mother gave him birth.
Folks didn't to talk to one another,
but bore their trauma deep beneath.

"Best less said," her father's words 
standing stiffly by her bed. "Press on,
my girl, forget the past and 
make the best. Nothing to be done."

Each year 'til our dear mother died
she talked of Nigel' s death.
She said she'd never even cried,
but did what father said was best....

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He awoke one day stoic and changed
his legs somehow were rearranged 
yes, he felt he had been shortchanged 

legs of steel that ran fast  

so when they kidnapped his girlfriend 
his legs were a means to an end 
the Aliens then, were godsend

although, he felt like an outcast
 
part human part Alien young gun     
came from area fifty one
he did escape but could not shun 

signals from Alien mast...

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Climate change? Evolutionary craziness. If you ask me.
I guess this shows how gullible the masses can be.
Yes, actually Tuesday it was sixty-two below.
This is Saturday, and the sun is a beautiful glow.
Alexis says we may have a high of fifty-one.
Bring your swimsuit. We will tan in the sun, and well. 
Climate change? I laugh, do tell. Straight from the bowels of …..

Written February 2, 2019                                 Contest: Pithy Pants 2
Sponsor: Maureen McGreavy...

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