Short Forty Poems

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Premium Member Micro Forty

No part of me wants to want 
a held heart;
Except at night when your face is all I can see 
right before I fall asleep.


Premium Member Forty Five Foot Oak

impressive palm print
fills the bulk of the forest
forty-five foot oak
leaving me warm memories
heavenly haven for crows
Form: Tanka

Forty

Forty Lords a'leaping,
Forty bugs a'creeping
Forty forty year-olds,
With forty sad life tales.
Forty forty forty year-olds,
With their forty ales.
© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Forty Three Foot Goat In Sweden

The inventive Swedish town of Gayle
Every winter holiday without fail,
makes a forty-three foot goat
Out of straw and an oat
It’s totally true, not a wild tale.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member To My Bride of Forty-Five

Love's cornerstone set
Forty-five years together
Dear wife of my youth
Our sons, their wives, our lives full
May love's embrace continue 

~ to the moon and back ~
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member spoiled forty year old men

Stevie is no aberration
Many spoiled forty-year-old men
Now live in mama’s basement
Playing video games all night
Sleeping all day while mama does their laundry
And makes their meals

Premium Member Like a Man of Forty

Today I'm going to see my sweet Doctor Kim To discover what shape this guy's in From how I feel now She'll say, “Holy freakin' cow” “You're like a man of forty” I couldn't stop the grin
age
Form: Limerick

Forty Three

a number is a curious thing
the shape the color the familiar ring

reflections cast a pallid glow
winter's secrets over summer's tow

with magic beans and wicked tea
such fools take heart at forty three
Form: Couplet

Forty

Frenzied I’m not crossing
Fifty per cent of life 
Feel comfy in my skin
Free from frivolity
Focused on who I love:
Family-my backbone 
Friends- the air I inhale

Written on 09/23/2016
Contest: Pleaides F
Form: Verse

Premium Member You'Re Like a Man of Forty

Today I'm going to see my sweet Doctor Kim To discover what shape this guy's really in From how I feel now She'll say, “Holy freakin' cow” “You're like a man of forty” and not be able to wipe off the grin
Form: Limerick

Forty

FORTY

Great the age of forty
Now we can be naughty
So do not worry anymore
That life is passing by
And so will reflect now
On years that have passed
Forward looking to those coming 
But be comfy in yourselves 
© Mary Grace  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member An Old Pro At Forty

I thought someday I’d be a professional man
And not just a plain old house renovator
But I never followed up on that plan
And have not taken steps during my lifespan
So I have settled on being a ‘pro’crastinator

January 24, 2016
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Forty

Forty old?  Hold your tongue.
Having children keeps me young.
Double forty?  I don't care.
I can travel any where.

Forty here and forty there.
Forty duo makes a pair.
Forty now?  Turn a page.
Getting older is the rage.

01/25/16
age
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member You'Re Like a Man of Forty

Today I'm going to see my sweet Doctor Kim To discover what shape this guy's really in From how I feel now She'll say, “Holy freakin' cow” “You're like a man of forty” unable to wipe off the grin © Jack Ellison 2015
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Forty Years

Forty years fly by, like fast frame film
Flickering pictures of life, it's joys and sorrows
Memories made over time, some sharp, some dim
Each scene defines us, for good or ill
All are part of who we are inside.



Written on 1/22/16

Forty



I love women at forty
Because they too become snorty

Now whom to complain dear...
Equality expels all my fear

Forty makes you more matured
Love bond makes us endured

Now finding poetry in you...
Living poetry gives me cue

25.01.16
Form: Couplet

Forty

Bliss and ecstasy vibrate within
me, as everyone I have
known in my life gathers
in a blissful, warm circle, 
all ready to celebrate my 
birthday. A candle standing above
number forty reminds me I’ve
lived a quarter century miraculously!



Date: 22/01/2016

I Am Forty

i am forty
old as eighty
young as twenty
alive millenium old
centuries young kicking
forty in naughty
twenty is pretty
eighty is ancient
i am happy nice out here
dreaming of past wondering
on future smiling content like
a child i am forty again bara basulimo
Form:

Forty

By the time, I'm Forty
Can't afford to be haughty

By the time, I'm Forty
Wish I'd be more naughty

By the time, I'm Forty
I wanna be as witty

By the time, I'm Forty
I don' wanna look Sixty!

Jan 21, 2016.

For Forty - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One
fun
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Forty Words of Fatherly Advice

From father to father, here's some friendly advice
Offer love and support, be wise and concise
Responses are remembered and magnified in young eyes
Think before you speak is most highly advised
Yesterday is gone, and be willing to compromise  



   by Daniel Turner
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Vignette-Life Begins At Forty

Travellor,painter,plant explorer
With her coloured-filled fauna and flora-
With ambition to display for public view
A bequest to house them at Royal Kew.
Now readily available,to me and you

Tribute to an extraordinary artist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_North
Form: Ekphrasis

Wow - Excellent XL

Revolutionary insight excelled
for forty days and forty nights.
Noah discovered what rain was;
Moses received God’s ten laws twice.
Josh and Caleb searched out the land;
Jesus triumphed o'er Satan's tests.
Goliath’s grand boasting accrued;
Elijah travelled in anguish.

Premium Member Four Minutes Or Forty Years

Four minutes to write a poem.
Where to turn? What to write?
Four minutes to make it perfect.
I am laughing now. Loud guffaws. 

Forty years might not be enough
To perfect this art, to make it right.
Forty years I doubt I have left.
But will I waste time pondering this? I hope not.

Forty

Forty years on this earth;
Know value and your worth.
Many years you've been tempted,
Let it go, become emptied.
Grasp wisdom you have learned,
The rest....let it burn.
Better days are just ahead,
Forty years....life well led.


Contest Sponsored by Silent One
Penned 1/21/2016 at 2:12p.m.
Form: Rhyme

The freedom of Forty

Unbothered at Forty

I stopped asking permission to belong.
My peace became more valuable than approval.
Not every friendship was meant to stay.
The right women found the real me.
Forty taught me to choose myself.
Stopped peace friendship real choose.

Inspired by: The Freedom of Forty (2026)
© JRE Ehauer  Create an image from this poem.

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