Middle Age Poems

Name-calling
We who live in the west 
do not see Israel as a colonial power
the last one in the Middle East
As many colonialists before Israel
this unlawful occupation...

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Every family has them
These unsettling times these misunderstandings
Times when many things come into play
In most cases these wee spats are soon over and forgotten
But sometimes...

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In the dimly lit corners of her existence,
She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence.
From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born,
Destined...

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The mirror reflects a lifetime etched upon my skin; a canvas of stories whispered through maturity. I stand before it, middle-aged and exposed, my nakedness...

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I guess the question begs for an answer,
at what age does our life start to plummet?
When do all of those eager years of youth,
reach the...

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Time's relentless hands cast their shadows
On a middle-aged woman in a lonely corner of her room
She drapes her shawl around her shoulders,
And there she sits...

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Love, friends and friendship became a puzzle  for me
This puzzle that I could hardly solve became a tragedy 
That I found myself in the...

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Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will...

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Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder 
if qualified to self diagnose 
mein kampf psychological state...

I lacked emotions where others concerned.

That refrain replayed itself,
when wife...

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Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...

that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024 
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago 
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when...

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It’s that one cigarette, I allow myself
after the wife leaves for work.

The sixteen-ounce coffee I walk to
the corner Bodega for every day,
I’m not supposed to...

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
the young are the kites, 
the aging are their anchors,
transforming from one to the other 
in middle age
...

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Super woman is middle aged now
Her headlights hang low; her back aches.
Her feet are as tired as the day is long.
Why do you still do...

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A tree in love

By the old road, before it meets a widened way
 in a nearby stands two trees close together
 we can see they...

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The A, class people 

there had been a mass outbreak, thefts from the store 
selling fairy tales, honestly, it had nothing to do with me...

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