Short Ninety Two Poems

we drifted apart
long lost friends brought together
class of ninety-two...

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fourteen, ninety-two
three ships head to the unknown
yesteryear's spaceships...

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mourners are crazy 
the ministers death was good 
he’d had a good life
good grief he was ninety-two
with cancer, ready to go...

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winter is on hold
October feels like summer
Kansas looks like the Ozarks
hills and trees, trees and hills
ninety-two degree day in late October
weirdly no longer abnormal in Kansas...

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In the year fourteen-hundred ninety-two
Indigenous Peoples, Columbus screwed --
  He gave them worthless trinkets
  So now they've 'rethinked' it --
Virtue-signaled Chris' moral turpitude...

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Can't wait for baseball to start up again
The Blue Jays are favoured to clean up AMEN
They're certainly due
Since nineteen ninety-two
Our tongues hang out while cheering for them


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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Conversed today with my ninety-two-year-old sister
Now that's longevity, perhaps I should whisper
Case the gatekeeper's asleep
The great benefits she'd reap
Or maybe the gatekeeper could be into the liquor...

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Whopping big or small sized -
With inside red flesh of
Wonderful sweetness, this
Weighty fruit’s percent of
Water is ninety-two!
Wow! That’s great hydration.
Wish I had some right now.

May 10, 2021
For Kim Merryman's Pleiades W Poetry Contest...

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I love this sweater, I will never stop wearing it!
His great grandmother was thrilled, but smiled, knowing better.
When he was in college he became a dress designer.
And he turned his sweater into a man-bag
Which he carried until the end of his life at ninety-two....

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My friend and I were talking about retiring.
I chickened out. I like big money.
She put in her papers.
She is older than me by a year and a half.
I will miss her terribly but I cannot do it yet.
Two weeks at home was two or three days too long for me.
I will go out in a body bag when I am ninety-two....

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BLUE STREAK

Hair dyed red with a streak of blue.
The sort of thing punk rockers do,
Not something I’d expect of you.
I wonder what possessed you to.
You say it’s time for pastures new.
But, Mother, you are ninety-two!

5th June 2021
Bite Size No. 4 contest
Sponsor - Line Gauthier...

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she’s a bit round he was quickly told
they forgot to mention she was truly old
she can play music and sing well too
Her teeth are straight, her hair is blue

She has a sense of humor tall as a giraffe
You should hear this woman truly laugh
She would be a terrific blind date for you
They never mentioned she was ninety-two...

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her hair is all over the place
wackadoodle with curls
filling up the space between chairs
stiff burgundy and black locks
twirling around the bottom of our feet
Which would have been okay in normal heat
It is ninety-two degrees in here.
So her wackadoodle hair is slightly irritating
to those of us who have to watch how we move our chairs....

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I've been smoke free for three months, that's a quarter of a year.
I quit because of health concerns, I quit before things became severe.
I've been quit for ninety-two days which is 2,208 hours.
All I needed was seven nicotine patches and some will power.
I have something to say to smokers that is true.
I quit smoking and if I can quit, so can you....

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Grandpa bear did not know what to do
When he was home alone at age ninety-two
His wife had gone to heaven the day before
Make yourself tea he heard from a cat’s snore

So he made some tea and stared into the fire
You have to get over me his wife whispered higher.
He drank more tea and stared at the flames
Just surviving without her was now one of his aims....

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You’re ninety two, well blow me down
I never would have guessed
You look so young and sprightly
And seem so full of zest
You’ve got your hair, its all your own
Your teeth are yours, not false
The way you talk, it’s obvious
Your mind’s intact, of course
What’s that you say, I’m sorry
Sometimes I can’t quite hear
It’s fifty two, not ninety
My word you do look queer 

© John W Fenn  22-05-2009...

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Cultivation of distressful life was starting in our family after the cyclone
No shelter we found except a crushed hamlet on far dale with full alone
On the next year we’re moved to hill tracts for probing of best living fate
Through a little job my father cared us with his loving effort to be settled
The year nineteen ninety two was my first year of institutional learning rail

©Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
07/11/2022...

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legos were invented ninety-two years ago
in 1933
their name came from two Danish words
leg godt
meaning “plays well”
six lego bricks can be made into 915, 000, 000 configurations
I have no idea how research knows this
I imagine this was calculated by a computer
Lego makes more mini tires a year than
Goodyear makes automobile tires
In my family Legos were not a hit until the 1990’s.
I had no idea they were invented in 1933...

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School is starting in one hundred and ninety-two heat.
Surely you jest! Said a staid guy name of Absolute Pete.
It’s hotter than a sauna, so you be the judge, okay?
This was said by an exaggerator whose name was May.

Put them together, and their story might make some sense.
This was said by a few gossips across the clothesline fence.
One tells such whoppers, and the other can barely embellish a bit.
Of course, they married and had children, named one Nit-Wit....

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