I was sixteen. I’d just been dumped By a girl I wasn’t actually with And who was using me To get something else The beautiful neighbor girl From across the street Had tried to tell me This would happen But I didn’t listen I knocked on the neighbor girl’s door Because I needed a friend …
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The last kiss that we had was by my car, Two nights after our most romantic night. My first true love became my first big scar; We broke up without so much as a fight. She was away at school where she then met A guy; and love had forced her to admit That his …
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When I last wrote about her It was at my first real dance; But soon, she was my first real love, My very first romance – And all that lovers always feel We also underwent — The crystal pure elation That we could not help but vent – And it was like real happiness Was …
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Nervous? I was less nervous getting married I was less nervous speaking in front of a crowd of 5,000 people I was less nervous going into military training This was serious business. This was a High School Homecoming Dance The girl? She was breathtaking Emotionally, mentally, physically And from everything I’d read and observed I …
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We watched the clouds roll in that day Cross-legged in the sand; We heard the distant thunder Sitting huddled, hand-in-hand – Until the rain was on us, Then we kissed and up we rose; Ran in the rain to my place Where we shed our sodden clothes – Before, we’d been “long-distance”, So then this …
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I had a crush A crush I had When I was just a boy – I wanted to Impress her, so I came up with this ploy… I ordered from A comic book A Spider-Man wrist band; So I could catch her In my web And bring her close to hand. But when I got …
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This might be a cinquain.
(Alternate title: “Remembering My First… Celebrity Crush”) I saw an actress in a play At twenty years of age; And fell for her, or at least reached The fascination stage. I sought her out, and talked to her; We went out on a date — With dinner, drinks and causerie Till very, very late. Oh, …
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One day you barely know someone The next, you think she’s gold; This is a lesson that I learned At seventeen years old I’d been alone for sixteen years Plus one year more, for sure; When suddenly, she just appeared, Or, I appeared to her Her best friend dated mine, and so He asked me …
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