Short We Have Seen Better Days Poems

Her robot hubby always called her honey,
his demeanor almost always sunny,
sudden mood change,
wife's seen better days,
blew a fuse when wife spent too much money.






11-20-16...

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Heard an old lady at the beach utter these words
“Men were dressing me with their eyes” how absurd
Not a real good looker
A “seen better days” ex-hooker
Line between beauty and age has become quite blurred...

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Pelicans crack me up, they waddle like Aunt Bea
But they're much more agile, they can also fly free
Aunt Bea jumps then crashes
On her multitude of fat asses
Methinks she's seen better days when she was three...

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Feeling my way through the fingers of spring 
 I walk inside that beautiful rain 
 with an organza hat that has seen better days 

 undone by the petrichor scent of each inhale 
 I loose myself and suddenly I am young again

 April 10, 2019...

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True love 
Is like a pair of slippers
They go together but don't always fit
But have room to grow.

They may get worn
And have seen better days
But they are comfortable
And too familiar to throw away.

Best kept in pairs.








Peter Dome. Copyright.2017....

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I never realised it was a temple
Until it was too late
Unfortunately my temple by then
Was in a dilapidated state

With permanent crack lines
On the the temple top
Outside walls have bulged
Loosened and dropped

This temple has seen better days
As maintenance it has lacked
No longer a temple
Just a worn out old shack...

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I never realised it was a temple
Until it was too late
Unfortunately my temple by then
Was in a dilapidated state

With permanent crack lines
On the temple top
Outside walls have bulged
Loosened and dropped

This temple has seen better days
As maintenance it has lacked
No longer a temple
Just a worn out old shack
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I have a pair of friends I've had for years

     Should we part I would surely drown in tears

          Together we've trod byways

               Although we've seen better days

                    My scruffy old shoes that I bought at Sears

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Entry for Skat's "Shoes" Contest...

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I miss the old days
 my sixties, seventies and eighties
when I was young and unafraid,
 but now it seems
those years have caught up with me
 and I find my old grams words in my head
that I've seen better days;
 but in my heart
things always turn around
 and though the past cannot be undone
tomorrow's future remains unknown 
 and is still to come....

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My cousin has seen many Bibles that people have thrown away.
Bibles are our greatest possessions, the world has seen better days.
The Bible is like a letter from God and that makes it unique.
It can help us to gain eternal life, that's what we should seek.
The words in the Bible can bring peace even when things seem gray.
The Bible is our greatest possession so please don't throw yours away....

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I seen better days before
Days were my heart was far from 
being broken and sore
Days were tears didn’t fall from my eyes
Causes I didn’t have to hear your lies
I seen better days you were not around
Thanks to that my heart didn’t have to
hit the ground
And now that I have a love so clear
I know he’ll love me always 
And to my heart he’ll always be dear
So I know I will see better days...

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Baby love, you're always there
when i need you.
A guiding strength
to protect me.
How can i repay you
for everything you've done.
When hard times come my way
and i've seen better days
There you are making a way
pointing and guiding me to the right way.
When one family has forsaken me
and so called friends
have no time for me
At least i know
My God and You
will be there for me
A comforting strength from a distance....

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I'm never really in a rush
To traipse through gushy, mushy slush
Like that on any city street
Where puddles form from melting sleet.

The passing traffic sends up sprays
Of wetness that's seen better days
To splatter on your favorite coat
(And splash avoidance seems remote).

So in your boots just stride right through
And do what all New Yorkers do,
Which is to shrug or maybe kvetch
'Til we complete this slushy stretch....

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Out with the old; in with the new
A face from the past simply won't do
Joseph Biden's fairly melting away
Don't get ideas, Hilary
You've seen better days...

The same thing back in 2016 was true
Jeb Bush checked all the boxes then too
A moderate whose wife was Hispanic
Jeb himself spoke fluent Spanish --

His downfall precipitated by one fatal flaw
He was yet another Bush family member
                          ~ That ice never thawed...

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He never had a hobby
Not one he could claim, anyhow.
Oh, he'd tinker with this, 
Build that.
He learned so many things
Tried so many things
But nothing stuck.
Except love... That was
His hobby.
He'd love a bit,
And watch how the sun found him
Tomorrow.
Some love turned out beautiful
Some had seen better days
And some was unfit to be called love.
He could never bring himself to sell love
But as a true hobbyist does
His best works he gave away....

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I take you down and look you over,
you've seen better days. 
Not so young as you used to be,
and you smell musty. I lay you open
and begin my examination.
I take off your jacket.
In all honesty much of your language 
is extraneous, in need of editing. 
Simple is as simple does. 
You're green and moldy, 
and rough around the edges; 
you'll need a good rubbing with linseed oil.
I close your pages, 
and put you back on the shelf, 
a labor of love for another day....

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hoardings  of shops on the isle of ridiculousness
the feral pigeons pontificate
the leaking roof of the civic theatre stays
you've seen better days
you've blundered into desperation
bankrupted twice
and now you're turning the middle
of town into millionaires row
ill afforded by the minions
even our local Market is shrinking
an ebb tide of the municipality
Westfield as vexing as a fox in chase
The Central library feels lobotomised
is it part privatised?...

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(This fictional poem is based on the cartoon character.)

I called the police and reported a rape and they rushed to where I live at.
But they beat me with their sticks when I told them that the victim was a cat.
Somehow my cat got a long streak of paint on her fur.
When Pepe Le Pew finished, she sure as hell didn't pur.
I gave him a good kick and I got sprayed.
I cut off his balls, he has seen better days.
He treated my cat like a whore.
He won't rape cats anymore...

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The Army Beret

My favourite hat is an army beret
That still holds the shape of his head
Woven with wool that has seen better days
Rim hanging from tattered threads
Stained with the tears I have shed.


~~~~

Author: Elaine Cecelia George, of Canada
For: Carol‘s contest:  My favorite hat
Awarded:  First Place


Author's note: 

This poem is about my Father's Army baret.
 (A Beret is  a french name for a round flat hat with a tight rim and is  pronounced 
beray)...

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The old wooden church had seen better days
of family times and God-fixed praise; 
of mournful whiles with countless tears, 
and sad goodbyes throughout the years. 

For those who look out toward her way
they see a shell from yesterday. 
No pastor there, the children gone; 
no parents left to carry on. 

But deep in the hearts of those she knew
she lives there still where their souls grew. 
No, she’s not dead as you’d suppose; 
she’s planted elsewhere, and there she grows....

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I think there's a hole
or a leak in my head,
all the words have spilled out
and left parts of me dead.

I can no longer muster
an original thought,
the words that I find there
are weak and distraught.

The well has run dry,
to coin a phrase,
but that, too, is trite
and seen better days.

Seen better days?
I've done it again.
You could fit my creativity
on the head of a pin.

Another trite phrase!
I've truly run dry
and now I'll be gone
in the blink of an eye.

Oy....

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