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Fifty Six Poems - Poems about Fifty Six

The Late Michael Alldredge
...He guest-starred on "The Jeffersons" and "Serpico". He also guest-starred on "The Bob Newhart Show". He starred in "The Sting II", "Iron Eagle" and other flicks. This very talented man died at the......

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Categories: fifty six, cancer, celebrity, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Phone Sonnet
... I see a phone as mostly an annoyance, I get ten or so calls as each day goes by. My comfort zone is the bottom of a rut, and most calls want a slice of our pie. My first two lines I w......

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Categories: fifty six, technology,
Form: Lyric



First encounters
...First encounters in the past two decades. 18.1.2009, A helped me to move in my quarter. A decade of caring friendship and neighbors. He taught and loved me unconditionally. Fifteen years and six......

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Categories: fifty six, best friend, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Diploma Reads School Of Hard Knocks
... My Diploma Reads “School Of Hard Knocks” Miracle Man 1/6/2025 Your time and your talent I once heard said, was all a young person needed to get ahead. So I’d rise up early and lac......

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Categories: fifty six, blessing, education, god, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member united in happy thoughts
...Fifty- six years of togetherness; some think it is strange. For Ida and Frank it is normal They have been best friends since their teenage years They cuddle on their swing looking over their lake ......

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Categories: fifty six, 12th grade, marriage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member two thousand dollar insurance perk
...My husband has a perk with his insurance They provide two thousand dollars worth of free stuff a year We think vitamins are included, they are not We think Kleenex are included. We are also wrong......

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Categories: fifty six, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Space To Process
...To call you a pansy insults the flower. It seems you cried for nearly an hour; your mother called to say she’d lost. So ‘space to process’ at a cost of fifty six thousand for the year to cancel ......

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Categories: fifty six, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cream Rises, Work Smarter
... Cream Rises, Work Smarter Miracle Man 8/28/2024 When doing any job, work smart, don’t stop My mothers advice, “Cream rises to the top” Her advice seemed sound, and to it I became b......

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Categories: fifty six, retirement, truth, work,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member 1856
... During a bad storm one night I turned on my television Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wai......

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Categories: fifty six, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Spring Sonata
...Springtime, you always arrive so gently, as high school proms bring tears of friends who know they must soon part. I will try not to weep of fifty-six years ago, as I see the vision of my sibling......

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Categories: fifty six, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kensington Avenue
... "Sweet child in time, you'll see the line the line that's drawn between good and bad" Having cold sweats again in this godforsaken ninety degree heat. Shivering uncontrollably. God, ......

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Categories: fifty six, emotions,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Heatwave
...frantic leaves blowing heated sun beats down on me fifty six- heatwave......

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Categories: fifty six, weather,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member I Could Get Hit By a Truck
...I could get hit by a truck tomorrow It might drag me a hundred and fifty-six feet My head could get crushed I would want to die. My husband says nothing. He is a wise man. I might live, I tell......

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Categories: fifty six, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
No Regrets
...You wanted to have me as your girlfriend Knowing that I was saving my body For the man should I one day wed I am fifty-six years old now And still never been married But I continue to believe ......

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Categories: fifty six, body, dream, for him,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gumball Machine Is Full of Fun
...The red gumball machine was full of fun A machine that knew she was number one Other contraptions thought they were a contender They were certainly not said my cousin, Sam Lender. I have had th......

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Categories: fifty six, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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