50 Age Poems

My mother and father never wavered in their routine. After each one of my siblings sprang into life, my father sat on the porch and...

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I'm still confused about growing up.
What, when, why, and how
Are we talking about maturity?
Naturally, it starts with a womb. I mean, growing up.
You should understand...

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I mop the floor every night at the local convenience store. 
Graveyard shift.
A teenage girl walks in wearing a Nirvana t-shirt.
She’s pretty ... and she...

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Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality

Countdown to homelessness – 
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register...

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In the hot A-Ga-Ming night
My wife and I skip the July 4th fireworks
At the sandbar down south on long Torch Lake

Start our own shoreline fire

Count...

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Through Age: leaves, weather, birds: 
                   ...

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A Woman’s lot!

Not yet 50 - well nearly - but not yet!
But I would never have bet
That this would be the year
That would start to...

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"Your very Mature for your age" 
What does the mean?
Why do I have to be mature to make friends
my description label is on my back...

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"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, & soon I shall be so...

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So You Say Your Turning Twenty-One Years Old (Rap-Lyric) (Contest)
so you say
your turning
twenty-one years old
today

Hootie Hoo!
happy birthday

and you want
some advice
on the game
of life
so you don't
get...

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so you say
your turning
twenty-one years old
today

Hootie Hoo!
happy birthday

and you want
some advice
on the game
of life
so you don't
get played

okay! baby
you know
you just came
to the wrong
place?

so this is...

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When you were a young-un 
With your whole life ahead of you
It's hard to imagine
Life ever coming to an end
But it does my friends... it...

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Wanna hang ? 
-I might go , 
Busted car 
-Still there’s hope 
50/50 
-I don’t know ...
Meet my crib 
-Try once more 
Jumping bones ?...

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Without Warning
David J Walker

Remembering when
Every weekend 
Was 50 years in the future

Remembering when Love was 
an elusive dream That didn’t mean 
A single thing if...

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How about if time thinks out of the box
  Let it be cunning, as sly as a fox
Instead of forward, shift into reverse
 ...

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