Short Twenty One Poems

Beauty is asleep
innocence  dead,
grace..passe-
ego
rules...

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Caught between 
wanting to be social 
and destroy the media...

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I am still a boy
I may look twenty one but,
I have much to learn...

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Your twice broken leg
recites modern poetry
alongside crutches...

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At twenty-one
your life just started
how could you just give up?...

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brumous air transforms
into glistening jewels –
minus twenty-one...

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New twenty one like 
My old dairy twenty 
No notes 
Note to nothing...

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One of two at five,
Of a flock of twenty-one,
Feathered up for Spring....

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Snow storm in springtime
Silhouette of a stark tree
It's a winters tale...

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Pink Blush on the hill
Crisp and icy twenty one
Wood stove warms the bones...

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standing tall
so proud
twenty-one gun salute



posted on December 8, 2019...

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black capped terns in flock
line-up all pointing seaward
twenty-one wind vanes...

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Husband and wife lived

gladly for twenty-one years ~ 

till the day they met


Date: 06/22/2019...

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Emotions poured out
Thoughts bound together and shelved
Dreams shared on paper

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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Here are cards
Fifty-two in all.
Want to win?
You beat me?
You need more points than I have.
Twenty-one is tops.
...

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The Lost Year
Haiku: by Tom
12/27/2020

We won't soon forget,
Twenty-Twenty, the lost year.
Twenty-One brings hope.
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My first  thought,  Haiku!
I kept writing twenty one
Feverous efforts 
Seventeen syllable try
Instead of six eight six or
Seven seven.seven more...

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I didn’t mean to stub my toe
At two I cry
At fifteen I swear
At twenty one I don’t even notice
At thirty two I wake up in a jail cell
At forty? WTF...

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Pool
Happy
At grandma’s
Squeals and joy
Run to see new dog
Charlie not there
twenty-one months pure
Sadly has drowned
Hatred now
Toward the
Pool...

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New Year’s Day One-One Twenty-One
David J Walker

One-One Twenty-One 
Exhaling Decembers air
Breathing in and 
Believing again 
In hope
instead of despair...

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You gave me two picture cards.
Together, they’re twenty points.
Don’t you get twenty-one!

Robert Pettit for Twenty/Twenty contest by David Williams
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See simple Sydney, wherever he go's
He'll show you a trick with fingers and toes
Counting to twenty 
If that's not plenty
Make it twenty one, cross eyed on his nose!...

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Selecting one number's a chore
it really was hard that's for sure
        Twenty-one's the result
         'cause now you're an Adult
you can do things you didn't before!...

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Games before homework,
Going to bed after twelve,
pop before breakfast,
turns to drugs at twenty-one,
sex before marrige,
and acohol at thirteen.
Tonight rebelions unite!...

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self confidence oozed out of her
she married and divorced two men before she was twenty-one
few women had that kind of confidence in the twenties
Marguerite is my grandmother...

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