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VincentVanEgo
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VincentVanEgo in Poetry & Free Verse

Penny

Fare thee well, my little friend

The days, now so long gone

For five of you

Bazooka Joe!

A bag for just a buck

Sold for a quarter in junior high

Detention, just my luck

RIP $0.01

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VincentVanEgo in Poetry & Free Verse

Wash, Rinse, Repeat

It isn’t often that I represent

Someone who cares

Where the money’s spent, but I

Prefer results more than philosophies

Good intentions don’t mean much to me

A little bit jaded, somewhat out of touch

Political correctness doesn’t matter much

And I

Understand you better than you know

Because I’ve been there

And there isn’t much to show

As the years went by

I saw the changes happen

And I didn’t ask why

They were changing

As I turned the page

To become relegated

To a bygone age

And it’s rough

I know that I’m not the only one

It’s tough to see it happen

Watch it all undone

You’re only young once

And then we all will die

It really happens in the blink of an eye

and then

I go to light up a cigarette

My childhood dead

And much to my regret, I find

The world, it never belonged to me

An inherited lot left overgrown in weeds

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VincentVanEgo in Poetry & Free Verse

For ME

I prefer to write in awkward rhymes

Because I like constraint

I find that limits that the poems place

The styles that I try to test

A challenge that I give myself

(And if I must confess)

An exercise to bring some focus

To an aging but still agile mind

Not too ravaged, yet, by time

Haphazard scheme, but simple lines

To bring it all to rest

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VincentVanEgo in Haiku

Fishing

A paradise found

Baited hook cast forever

Patiently I wait

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VincentVanEgo in Haiku

Practice Makes Perfect

I tap out a thought

They can’t all be fantastic

I keep on trying

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VincentVanEgo in Haiku

Army of One

The path plainly marked

A single ant marches on

Important and not

Cover image for post Repatriation, by VincentVanEgo
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VincentVanEgo in Haiku

Repatriation

A new moon rises

The tiny pack treads fresh snow

Finally, a home

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VincentVanEgo in Poetry & Free Verse

Sketelons

I haven’t many bones left for my grave

My closet’s overgrown now

And though my soul’s laid bare

The stones I’ve overturned

Have granted me no shelter there

I gave away my hopes, my dreams

The parts that made me brave, it seems

I haven’t many bones left for my grave

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VincentVanEgo in Poetry & Free Verse

We’re all poets

Writing isn’t difficult

It’s easy if you let it

Just be something that you write

And then forget

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VincentVanEgo in Poetry & Free Verse

Life’s little surprises

I put out my tongue, once

To taste the warmth of the sun

It was nutty

Like an insect or a gnat

But I opted to not think much

About that

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