Short Twenty Three Poems

Dream with the power of one thousand Moons.....

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Married 13 days
You break your left leg again
and restart the pain...

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Zeina, Zeina,
Where you be?
Tryin' to find you before,
I get to twenty-three...

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Look in the mirror
   What do you see?
If you're seventy-eight
   You might see twenty-three...

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my wife the cougar
Sue was forty when we met
I was twenty three



By Jack Horne for Dr Ram’s Cougar Effect contest...

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twenty three adults
a cute flowers family
rare pinky flowers
two so cute babies,
and one lovely teenager
that is the whole folks...

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A bodyguard at twenty three?
would have done a world of good for me
my self esteem unbounded
those playground bullies more than a little confounded....

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women amid floral bouquet
transports me back to nineteen twenty-three
I was here, on this boardwalk, with my lover
how I know this I do not know, but I do....

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A K-9 Spaniel who sniffed down crooks
started getting suspicious looks
To avoid detection
he’s in witness protection
with ten butlers and twenty-three cooks...

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Michael Jordan, number twenty-three
Greatest of all time, that ever be?
  He and his Bulls were sure 'a-rambling'
  Till he ran afoul of his penchant for gambling...

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We are now swimming up the Boteti River, we twenty-three
To get to grasslands and savannah woodlands, you see
swimming is fun, sang the zebras, and the eating is free...

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Important Margrave of Germany
Put his new Margravine on his knee.
Bounced her soundly three times.
And then quizzed her with rhymes.
Quickly lost wife number twenty-three....

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Linda never lived up to her husband’s fantasy
Sheba had porcelain skin of alabaster hues
Her ruby lips hid a brilliant mind
She passed at twenty-three
Leaving an open wound...

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When I was a young lad of just twenty-three
Wanted to be a gigolo between you and me
Had the equipment
Had the commitment
Only thing missing was partners you see...

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fantasy
is a flight

i'll bring
a bunch
of those

wee little
bottles of
booze

sit on my
bed closing
my eyes

five hours and
twenty three
minutes

time of
arrival...

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Believe or not I'm really only twenty-three
Look old for my age, had a rough life you see
In spite of my trials
Have no rivals
Stunning and admired, can't believe my esprit...

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Our Earth orbits on an angle
So we yearly get birds and bees
Don't thank God for the Summertime
Thank Him for twenty three degrees

5-6-19
Contest: Quatrain Summer
Sponsor:Caren Krutsinger...

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Believe or not I'm really only twenty-three
Look old for my age, had a rough life you see
But in spite of my trials
Really have no rivals
Stunning and admired, can't believe my esprit...

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There once was a highly strung society maid.
Whose sole important passion was being afraid.
She spent twenty-three years inside,
From all kinds of people she'd hide.
Barricaded by choices few others have made....

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E-ver amazing zenith
R-emains November twenty-three; 
R-ay from the beacon above
I-s producing
E-cstasy.

G-leams, lights, and glows
O-f the crimson underneath
M-ake the sky so wonderful, 
E-ver amazing
Z-enith....

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Have you seen my arrogant cow? The farmer asked me.
I am not sure, I told him. I have seen at least twenty-three.
She is the one wearing curlers, as prissy as a cow can be.
I had not seen her, but now I was searching avidly....

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Wonder how many breaths we take in a day
So I looked it up and here's what they say
23,000 is the big number
8.5 million a year, what wonder
Roughly 675 million if you live to eighty

(at 82 I'm working on 692m)...

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Flapper Shirley Shively sighed and thought, how could she?
She'd love to do that hootchie-kootchie dance, but would she?
Though the boys she loved to tease,
She was, sadly, quite obese.
Surely Shirley Shively shouldn't shimmy, should she?...

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at one
of the many
intersections
in the multiverse

i quickly
shifted my
car in reverse
having just passed

a parking
space back
in nineteen
twenty three

but i knew 
it was a ticketable
offense to park diagonally
in a parallel universe...

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I am young, and have much to learn
(so much) of life and all the alignments
of the stars,
I know this at least
( or at twenty-three I do)
That few of us have a will
to change, and fewer still
succeed.
(But who knows what I will know
at twenty-four)....

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