Another Perspective
...I think at first perhaps she pitied me
With my fumbling teenaged kissing
But to her as a separated mother
I provided some love she was missing.
She risked her very reputation.
I, perhaps, riske...
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Categories:
teenaged, first love, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
You me she and she
...you, me, she and she
love is us, the four of us,
you, me, she and she.
it is the way we bust out
in spontaneous dance moves
in the middle of our living room
when our fam-fave beat comes on
a...
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Categories:
teenaged, family,
Form: Free verse
Feels Like a Saturday
...My childhood of the 1960's,
all those years ago,
feels like a Saturday in my
journey nostalgic.
The Cowsill's song "Flower Girl,"
their purity of song, of smiles.
A daydream streams,
of runnin...
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Categories:
teenaged, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Last Goodbye
...The Highwaymen softly play
Me And Bobby Magee
And for the next four hours
Every single drink is free.
Order what you like friend
And stick it on the slate
Tonight we’re saying goodbye
To my b...
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Categories:
teenaged, friendship, funeral, goodbye, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Drop-In Centre
...There’s Scottie in his chair
Tongue firmly in his cheek
Trying to wind up Old Noel,
The highlight of his week.
Noel, over eighty, Veteran
Of the Korean War
Gives as good as he gets
And dishes...
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Categories:
teenaged, caregiving, loss, memory, military,
Form: Rhyme
Gramps
..."He made a difference."
Gramps, my mother's father --
Dave Luke -- my grandfather,
a tall unlettered white (decidedly white)
Louisiana man -- was born August 1887.
He lived 87 years. He g...
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Categories:
teenaged, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye: Upon the Death of Sibling
...Once, I’d stood beside a man
Who, with heart and soul o’erwrought,
Silently searched for answers, but answers found him not.
His sister recently had passed from Earthly life to next,
And left h...
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Categories:
teenaged, angst, brother, cancer, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Rolling Back Memories
...A muted awakening this morning
By a gentle wind driven rain
Beating a light tat rat tat rat
On the half open window pane,
Waking me with the trio of
Rain, whispering breeze
And the sighing of ...
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Categories:
teenaged, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing Like Fred Astaire
...The discovery at aged seventy
Explained to me at last
The source of my problems
From way way back in my past.
Not just a clumsy country idiot,
All my life there’d been a cause,
A condition cal...
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Categories:
teenaged, dance, desire, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
Discarded a True Story of Healing
...A song by the Allman Brothers, titled Melissa, I was, hearing Sweet Mellisa over and over, while writing this.
The Story begins as a teenaged College student is informed by her Doctor that she is p...
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Categories:
teenaged, birth, encouraging, feelings, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative
The Enchantress
...
She seemed to float into the dance.
Stunning, emerald-like, on a silver cloud.
With ruby red lips, whispering velvet sounds.
We, young girls, knew we hadn’t a chance.
Our clot...
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Categories:
teenaged, beauty, dance, fantasy, high
Form: Rhyme
Get Back
...If you have movies taken back
When you were just a child,
You’ll know that seeing everyone
So young is really wild.
The clothes, the styles, the mannerisms
Take you to that time
When some on ...
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Categories:
teenaged, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Lucky Seventh Son
...What made you so special my freckle faced friend..
the day I heard you singing to a record, from your window next door.
Bell bottom clad teenaged knock out, with a ballerina's step..
In huge ...
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Categories:
teenaged, crush, house, proposal, sad
Form: Rhyme
To Ceo
...Cosmopolitan look of this CEO
Perfectly carved in a ratio
Suit dark suits him much
He rocks in all seasons such
Hailing from Guntur chilli region
Bay of Bengal being his swimming station
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Categories:
teenaged, angel, appreciation, art,
Form: Couplet
Some Special Tune
..."On the day that you were born, the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true. So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue." From the Carpen...
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Categories:
teenaged, song,
Form: Rhyme
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