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These Things Happen Poems - Poems about These Things Happen

Premium Member When
...I said… In time, when my hair has gone wispy and grey When my youth like my hairline has scampered away When my joints creak aloud any time that I move When my musical taste isn’t quite in groo......

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Categories: these things happen, age, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Speaking Your Mind
...Speaking Your Mind Every time you don’t speak your mind these things happen: snails do aerobics, flamingos update their details on important apps, palm trees spill out Amish hats, comb......

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Categories: these things happen, humor,
Form: Free verse



Don’t Cry Over
...The waitress spilled a beer last night Right on my husband’s clothes. He was upset, but these things happen, Sometimes, I suppose. He went back to our room to change And rinse his threads of b......

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Categories: these things happen, drink, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why: the Sequel
...My first day talking to the creators would be filled with question about nature whose answers I’ve long awaited…the second day I’d start with nature then begin asking about the humans they created. ......

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Categories: these things happen, god,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Sailing
...Lost Sailing The boat sails this way and that Round around the waters Lost its rudder a while ago Like a person with no eyes Going about by feel alone Wondering how it happened? Up creek no......

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Categories: these things happen, humor, nonsense, political, satire,
Form: Verse



Premium Member My Old Town's Sad Decline
...It was my first time back since covid to my home town Kilmarnock by name over recent years there's been changes few for the better but what's to blame? The town has deteriorated, so many closur......

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Categories: these things happen, home, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Paedophile
...No one likes me - they put me on a register, you must be sick they told me, yes you're right; my mother made an amazing statement - like this: 'There was nothing more exciting than a twelve year o......

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Categories: these things happen, child abuse, god, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
I'M Sorry - Duet
...I'm Sorry (Duet) (FEMALE) Two months had passed, not a day was he late. He said he'd never let me down, I thought he was great. But today I sit here, is this the end? Is he gone forever? ......

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Categories: these things happen, car, fate, husband, i
Form: I do not know?
Another Day
...Another day passes me by I sit alone and cry and cry Keep asking myself why Why do i suffer in so much pain Do i have anything on this earth to gain What purpose do i serve in this world Or cou......

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Categories: these things happen, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Look At Life Different
...This isn't about me, I'm going to write with a different concept You could be having a great day, then slip and fall in one step Maybe this wouldn't have happened if you'd gone left We always over......

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Categories: these things happen, courage, dedication, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
I Miss You Grandma
...I bloomed into the person I am from a little seed that you planted. You were the water; you quenched my thirst and took care of all my needs. The voices I heard coming from my head always chanted ......

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Categories: these things happen, absence, angel, appreciation, bible,
Form: Free verse
A Heap of Logs
...They piled a heap of logs fire they light and run away cats and dogs come from sky the work well done collapses Things done in haste out of hate make plotters foolish gamblers when the world ......

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Categories: these things happen, allegory, fate, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
My Seconds For You
...The millisecond you take to read this word this second this poem is my seconds my minutes my life's time for you. For you to spend a second a minute To ......

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Categories: these things happen, beauty, blessing, remember, smile,
Form: Light Verse
Adults Only
...The twins woke up as usual again Waiting outside in the glowing sun For the train to come at 8:00 am It arrives by 8:10 every day precisely One boy blond, one girl blonde, age 5 shimmering Powde......

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Categories: these things happen, adventure, age, children, crush,
Form: Free verse
No Matches
...The art shop went up in flames No one was at fault These things happen All colors screamed out in black and white Insects inside ran furious with the paint Toasted crisp with no complaints Thei......

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Categories: these things happen, absence, abuse, confusion, image,
Form: Free verse

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