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  July 2021     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 3 total

Waiting

These days run one into the other with a finality only grasped by the old.
There are not hundreds of sunrises ahead, nor sunsets left, each one more precious than the last in their passing. Old friendships have said all their words so many times...

– by Sharon Irvin

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The door

Deep within ones soul, a door it seems
But not necessarily of hopes and dreams
A lock with no key to be found
Futile and hopelessly bound
This place of darkest dark and saddest sad
Not so very good, mostly bad
At least for you in this hidden place...

– by Sharon Irvin

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added 2 years ago
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Ode to a golf ball

A photo showed me it’s spherical lyrical magnanimous attitude
Arrogant though in its dimpled perfection almost rude
Knowing and accepting its superiority in every way it could
Able to bring a grown man to his knees to worship as he...

– by Sharon Irvin

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