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I have been writing since I was eight years born & raised in northern new jersey. After having two near-death experiences and losing my passion for writing poetry, my daughter, girlfriend, and my 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 CHECKOUT MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL THE POETRY OF A MAD HIPPIE POET

  September 2022     4 hours ago

Submitted Poems 429 total

MANY WILL COME

Many will come down with their tattered wings and sing their songs. With my song, we will combine to make a beautiful opera. No longer feeling like strangers, we will fight the good fight, turning on the light to open their eyes and stepping out of...

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LITTLE SECRET

Memories are falling to pieces, and they do not seem the same anymore; they are closed doors that neither of us can return to. I tried to go to a happy place only if the ashes did not cover the ground and the lonely dove singing its song was the...

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SOUL SURFING

At exactly midnight, my soul goes surfing, riding the waves of my past lives. For my body is only a buried shell, but my soul has seen both heaven and hell, and they are both make-believe. My heart has seen hatred, but by love, it was relieved.

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IT SUCKS GETTING OLD

Here I sit, almost 50, waiting for prune juice and a rocking chair. I do not want my family putting me in a damn nursing home with others like me with fading tattoos playing a game of guessing what it was and pulling each other fingers to see if we...

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IF

If you stand in one place for too long, you may drown. If you walk too long, are you walking to get somewhere? Are you truly listening to every sound that runs against sound? Do you hear the birds cry and the angels sing when you are born? You have...

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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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the opening line

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thanks I dig your work a lot but there are messages in everything they are watching

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Ty the 2nd part is called i heaven within my words

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so true

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glad you did you should read I found heaven within my words

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keep up the great job and believe in your craft

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Great stuff

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, thanks for the kind words. You should read the 2nd part the proposal

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Thanks, man it means a lot

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thanks for the kind words

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