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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     6 hours ago

Submitted Poems 459 total

PRAY

I do not want to do this anymore; I want to close the door and try to remember how to pray. Tomorrow is today, and I have to get away, but at the moment, I must stay
who is speaking and calling me. How can I hear but not see them? Have I lost my...

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STEPS

I take one step forward and two steps back. I don't know how long it will take to get there, but I know I will because my feet will not allow me to stand still. The person you see is not the same person you saw yesterday, nor will you see tomorrow....

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look

There's a look in my eyes, a burning feeling inside my stomach speaking to me in riddles, for this is where all the answers rest their tired heads and occupy my bed. A look lingers inside my eyes, telling me that I can not sleep with my back against...

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MIND

I do not sleep because I do not care about dreaming. This life is an open book, and I am the writer and the painter of the pictures I care to read and see. Am I going mad? Is this a message of my reality

What path must I follow when my eyes...

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SOULS

Where do I stand when I walk all alone to a beat? Only I can hear all the souls and where they went through the years. These thoughts keep haunting me like the stars haunt the evening skies. Kindly pour me another whiskey and answer all of my whys...

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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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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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