Why? - Tune of our mortal coil
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The tunes of my cries goes
Why the breathe, the life?
A question that has creapt its way in and taken root into my very soul
At times a wail but mostly a cry to be freed of it all
Why?
No ...
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Categories:
wrinkly, deep, destiny,
Form: Free verse
seventy three
...prickly and simply
wrinkly and pimply
old aged and one paged
ungauged and enraged
wildly carefree
honest living at seventy-three...
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Categories:
wrinkly, age,
Form: Rhyme
What Are The Clouds Sitting On
...What are the clouds sitting on?
Carved castles
Powerful shapes and delicate dollops
But clouds are flat on the bottom.
The clouds are flat on the bottom.
They are like my great, great, great w...
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Categories:
wrinkly, imagery, imagination, sky,
Form: Free verse
The Now Continuum
...The sky bathes the harbor in cyan turquoise
cadet-blue sea foam bubbles the only gorget one has
versus the flamingos and canaries absconding littoral mire
the gashes on my feet, the burn in my <>
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Categories:
wrinkly, age, beauty, bird, first
Form: Free verse
Nurses
...NURSES
Tell me this question nurse
Describe how you ever see me
A wrinkly old fuss pot woman
At the grand old age of 93
You wash and you dress me
You feed each one of us
Its your job but i h...
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Categories:
wrinkly, age, emotions, life, remember,
Form: Rhyme
grandmothers hands
...the back of my hands are spotted
with brownish red splotches and dashes
they are as wrinkly as a Chinese dog
blue veins are popping up in ugliness
so this is why old women wear gloves!
the same ...
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Categories:
wrinkly, age,
Form: Free verse
Digital World
...Texting at 7:00 pm.
Is almost too late.
People are washing dishes.
They are tired with wrinkly hands.
If I texted anyway,
Maybe the shadows would leave.
Texting at 9:00 pm.
It’s never ok, it’s...
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Categories:
wrinkly, angst, depression,
Form: Free verse
Daydreaming and Dishes
...To write a song.
I have to be famous.
But first I have to start a band.
And learn to write music.
But I don’t have friends.
I don’t have anyone.
I don’t have anyone who would want t...
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Categories:
wrinkly, angst, dream,
Form: Free verse
:: Box of Treasures ::
...I pull down from the shelf
The beautiful box of treasures
Ornately carved
Warm, yet well worn
To the gentle touch of my fingers
There is no rush
As I sit in this cosy spot
The sunlight of m...
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Categories:
wrinkly, family, friendship, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
March Madness
...Game day snacks were on my mind
as I quickly got into the check out line.
March Madness enlivened a cold, gray day
and made me impatient with any delay.
Still, my line was express so I had no dou...
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Categories:
wrinkly, basketball, introspection, march, spring,
Form: Couplet
a beauty you could adore
...He had been to steampunk conventions before
But had never seen a beauty that he could adore
This woman was a goddess with hair of spun gold
He stared from the corner, feeling wrinkly and old...
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Categories:
wrinkly, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Knowing Mamie
...Mamie has a rather shabby coat, it is a mainstay
We all know it; green with tassels, a bit scraggly
It was her mother’s coat, she will never get rid of it
It still smells like her, she tells us.
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Categories:
wrinkly, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
Overjoyed-Originally Del Valle
...If vain thy earthly hopes did prove, thou canst not mourn their flight; Thy brightest hopes were fixed above. And they shall know no blight—Anne Bronte
Overjoyed
An am...
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Categories:
wrinkly, baby, birth, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Willie Worm
...Wriggly, wriggly, Willie Worm,
you’re so cute when you squirm!
You move your body to and fro
and that propels you to up and go!
Squiggly, squiggly, Willie Worm,
you soften the earth when you t...
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Categories:
wrinkly, 2nd grade, animal, cute,
Form: Rhyme
Unspeakable Joy
...There are wrinkles
Now, lines erasing a past
Where the fine contours of her face
Were drawn, in color
Crisp, clean lineages from
Time echoing hope,
Soothing away the fragments
Reality connect...
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Categories:
wrinkly, faith, hope, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
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