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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     14 hours ago

Submitted Poems 536 total

HERE I SIT

Here I sit like I did the day before, wanting less, receiving more. The music slowly plays behind these locked doors, and with my shadow, I can not help but make a little romance and dance.

Here I sit, and time is moving slowly, leaving marks on...

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RUNNING

These thoughts are running through my mind, reminding me that I am running out of time, yet the hands on the old grandfather clock are at a standstill. I am asking a million questions but getting the wrong replies, which fuels the fire that occupies...

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LOST IN FLIGHT

I'm cold, seeking answers to why I am having another sleepless night. My thoughts tell me I do not have the right to what is happening to me when everything seems to be a dream, but I'm awake. I want your hand to give it to me to take

I can no...

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WANDERING

My eyes are tired, and my head is light with these wandering thoughts. If I was to chase after them, would my feet be heavy?

I have been lost for so long, looking for a place in which I belong, but my wandering has made me take notice that I was...

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DISTANT

I lay my head down not for the reason that I am tired and need to rest but for the only reason that these thoughts are so damn heavy my eyes are seeing things that were once there but many moons ago inside the midnight hour had disappeared it is a...

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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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the opening line

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