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I have been writing since I was eight years old, born & raised in northern New Jersey. After having two near-death experiences and losing my passion for writing poetry, my daughter, girlfriend, and grade school teacher got me back into the art of words. I remember a conversation that I had with my teacher. He told me the jocks might get the girls now but keep writing poetry because the words will get the words the girls once the jocks are old and fat later. Now I have the love of my life due to the poem I left on her car windshield. P.S. The poem The PROPOSAL was a success. She said yes, so the teacher was right."I THINK MY WORDS KNOW YOU" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. Web. 24 Jul 2023... PLEASE CHECK MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL, THE POETRY OF A MAD HIPPIE POET

  September 2022     1 day ago

Submitted Poems 541 total

MAKE-BELIEVE

I want and need to breathe. I need to feel something lasting and honest, like the kiss of your bloodstained kiss and warm embrace. Oh, sing to me that song you used to sing that would have my thoughts and guilt erased. I want to touch your face like...

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TELL ME WHY

Paint me a picture in vivid colors and tell me why all the peasants and whores want all the riches and gold without a single story being told but yet they demand to sing the songs of yesterday as they go their separate ways.

You want answers, do...

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BEAT OF THE DRUM

The sounds are getting louder with every beat of the drum, the stars are starting to fill the skies, and the night is becoming undone. There was too much to lose, all of the gold and riches I had just won. I choose to walk because I'm too old to...

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THERE COMES A TIME

There comes a time when a man needs to strip himself of all of his worldly things, look around, open his mind to every sound, look to be lost, and hope once again to be found. Tears will fall like the rain from the sky, but the whys will soon be...

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CALLING

She is calling me, but I only see her at night. During the day, I lose sight, but I still hear that angelic voice that sets my soul on fire and leaves the taste of desire on my tongue.

Looking at the moonlight fill the room, and the scent of her...

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Favorite Poets 14 total

Voted Poems 95 total

Collection 349 total

Latest Comments: 37 total

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same

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kick ass poem

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thanks for the vote

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thanks yours as well

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thanks

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thanks check out my YouTube channel please

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there is always that one girl

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really dig your work; keep it up

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thanks means alot

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so true

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thanks glad u enjoyed

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thanks i just found it after 30 years and tweaked it

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what are you talking about

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truth

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i never heard of them until you brought them up

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