Long Birthday Poems
#birthday
Diaryofabasketcase
Poem Published
6th Apr 2024 4:37am
6th Apr 2024 4:37am
Thirteen
#mother
#teens
#childhood
#birthday
#drugs
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Diaryofabasketcase
Poem Published
11th Feb 2024 11:48am
11th Feb 2024 11:48am
The Birthday Party
I ordered my own birthday cake
I even bought balloons
Invited friends and family
The party starts at noon
I broke up with my boyfriend
Actually he just dumped me
He couldn’t understand my mind
He asked to be set free
My tiny old apartment
Didn’t have a lot of space
I put out food to snack on
Afraid it’ll go to waste
My mom called first to cancel
After that it was my sister
One by one, they dwindled
My best friend too, I’d miss her
I set up streamers on the wall
Even though no one...
I even bought balloons
Invited friends and family
The party starts at noon
I broke up with my boyfriend
Actually he just dumped me
He couldn’t understand my mind
He asked to be set free
My tiny old apartment
Didn’t have a lot of space
I put out food to snack on
Afraid it’ll go to waste
My mom called first to cancel
After that it was my sister
One by one, they dwindled
My best friend too, I’d miss her
I set up streamers on the wall
Even though no one...
#depression
#loneliness
#romantic
#birthday
#ShortStory
144 reads
6 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
17th Dec 2023 7:41pm
17th Dec 2023 7:41pm
Cendra's Birthday Parties
Cendra had an unusual last name
Skin shades darker than mine
Parents years older than most.
No siblings.
She was confident and self-assured.
Additional qualities I found exotic.
I liked being around her.
Her 11th (12th?) birthday was at Gooney Golf
There was a giant dinosaur at the entrance.
The last hole was an igloo.
Even if you missed, it captured your ball at the end.
Gone.
After miniature golf, we went back to Cendra's house for cake.
At her decree, we smeared frosting on our faces.
When her...
Skin shades darker than mine
Parents years older than most.
No siblings.
She was confident and self-assured.
Additional qualities I found exotic.
I liked being around her.
Her 11th (12th?) birthday was at Gooney Golf
There was a giant dinosaur at the entrance.
The last hole was an igloo.
Even if you missed, it captured your ball at the end.
Gone.
After miniature golf, we went back to Cendra's house for cake.
At her decree, we smeared frosting on our faces.
When her...
#childhood
#friendship
#birthday
#WritingPoetry
#admiration
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Nizana
Lauryn
Lauryn
Poem Published
8th Sep 2023 2:42pm
8th Sep 2023 2:42pm
Another Birthday
The passing of another year snuck up on me a few days ago. Life’s been complicated but in the middle of the mess, I turn a year older today. I think I'll stay here a little while longer.
Twenty-six years ago, my mother pressed me to her breasts for the first time. She told me she cried when she first saw me and didn’t want to let me go when the nurse said it was time.
“I didn’t expect you to lunge for me the next time they brought you in.” She said with a smile. “You had a passion for life and insatiable appetite from the beginning.”
She told me that the...
Twenty-six years ago, my mother pressed me to her breasts for the first time. She told me she cried when she first saw me and didn’t want to let me go when the nurse said it was time.
“I didn’t expect you to lunge for me the next time they brought you in.” She said with a smile. “You had a passion for life and insatiable appetite from the beginning.”
She told me that the...
#mother
#sex
#birthday #daughter
#birthday #daughter
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6 Comments
Tenderloin
Poem Published
6th Feb 2023 3:18am
6th Feb 2023 3:18am
Dessert Before Dinner
#sex
#birthday
#passion
424 reads
5 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
15th Jan 2023 8:27pm
15th Jan 2023 8:27pm
By Any Means Necessary (Happy Birthday Martin Luther King, Jr.)
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mama, I know why the caged bird really sings
When the mind as an offering hears sovereignty echoed from the mountains let it ring
From the cradle of birth is to give authority to our mental dreams
Our deferred aspirations we seek to the highest of our esteem
How can I learn to fly when my heart cannot even walk
Animosity, resentment is always found in wagging tongues who doesn’t know how to intellectually talk...
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mama, I know why the caged bird really sings
When the mind as an offering hears sovereignty echoed from the mountains let it ring
From the cradle of birth is to give authority to our mental dreams
Our deferred aspirations we seek to the highest of our esteem
How can I learn to fly when my heart cannot even walk
Animosity, resentment is always found in wagging tongues who doesn’t know how to intellectually talk...
#freedom
#determination
#MayaAngelou
#birthday
#philosophical
764 reads
17 Comments
Bluevelvete
Poem Published
8th Jan 2023 11:36pm
8th Jan 2023 11:36pm
The haunting bittersweetness of coconut cream pie
It's been a long while
Years are mere moments
some days shine bright
of your warm memory
it's only in dark shadows
where the sting still stings
Finding my own smile
in tattered old photos
or sounds of our similar nature
tears can't help but brim
quivering
at our alikeness
unmistakably similar
so uncanny
I can't help but chuckle
yeah, that too... is familiar
Laughing through tears
grief finds it's own way
through, over
and around
Every single one
of...
Years are mere moments
some days shine bright
of your warm memory
it's only in dark shadows
where the sting still stings
Finding my own smile
in tattered old photos
or sounds of our similar nature
tears can't help but brim
quivering
at our alikeness
unmistakably similar
so uncanny
I can't help but chuckle
yeah, that too... is familiar
Laughing through tears
grief finds it's own way
through, over
and around
Every single one
of...
#love
#father
#birthday
#magic
#healing
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RevolutionAL
Poem Published
13th May 2022 11:12am
13th May 2022 11:12am
An Electric Ode To Kahn
Lightning light me up, illuminate like fireflies
Medusa magic cast my dreams in stone" Kahn Morbee
ANC fairytales,
are not the same as the memory of The Roxy
-that midnight you taught men to wear eye-liner
just, one of many times you upped the game
"we promised our parents, we were just having fun!"
in front of a piano, choosing ivory, smiling at it's name
thinking of stardust galaxies and the road to china ...
Medusa magic cast my dreams in stone" Kahn Morbee
ANC fairytales,
are not the same as the memory of The Roxy
-that midnight you taught men to wear eye-liner
just, one of many times you upped the game
"we promised our parents, we were just having fun!"
in front of a piano, choosing ivory, smiling at it's name
thinking of stardust galaxies and the road to china ...
#birthday
#gratitude
#admiration #respect
#admiration #respect
436 reads
6 Comments
Tenderloin
Poem Published
5th Feb 2022 3:15pm
5th Feb 2022 3:15pm
Unwrapped and Bareback
#lust
#dreams
#birthday
#sexy
#orgasm
639 reads
8 Comments
randyjohnson
Poem Published
1st May 2021 9:20pm
1st May 2021 9:20pm
The Late Burkette Greene
Today would've been my grandfather's birthday if he had lived. He was born on May 1, 1910 and died on February 7, 1998 at the age of eighty-seven. He lived in Sneedville, Tennessee. His name was Burkette Greene. He was sixty-one when I was born.
My grandmother's name was Laura and she and Papaw had six kids. Sadly, the youngest of the six kids died when he was a month old. His name was Burkette Greene Junior. Their five other kids were/are Ina Mae, Everette, James, Norman and Agnes who was my mom. Sadly, Mom, Norman and Ina Mae are deceased.
Papaw used to tell Mamaw that...
My grandmother's name was Laura and she and Papaw had six kids. Sadly, the youngest of the six kids died when he was a month old. His name was Burkette Greene Junior. Their five other kids were/are Ina Mae, Everette, James, Norman and Agnes who was my mom. Sadly, Mom, Norman and Ina Mae are deceased.
Papaw used to tell Mamaw that...
#family
#birthday
#nonfiction
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juliagkrimmel
daisygirl
daisygirl
Poem Published
3rd Mar 2021 5:25am
3rd Mar 2021 5:25am
dear, 17
17 years
or 6,210 days
or 149,040 hours
or 8,941,136 minutes
or 536,457,600 seconds
that's how long i've lived
and how long i’ve been on this earth
i'm officially 17
numerically speaking--
that's a long-ass time
realistically, i blinked and it happened
a flash, and here i am
i know i have many years ahead
and many sleepless nights in my bed
but i feel so incredibly old
what feels like
2 seconds ago i was going into high school
and...
or 6,210 days
or 149,040 hours
or 8,941,136 minutes
or 536,457,600 seconds
that's how long i've lived
and how long i’ve been on this earth
i'm officially 17
numerically speaking--
that's a long-ass time
realistically, i blinked and it happened
a flash, and here i am
i know i have many years ahead
and many sleepless nights in my bed
but i feel so incredibly old
what feels like
2 seconds ago i was going into high school
and...
#depression
#hope
#childhood
#birthday
#aging
461 reads
15 Comments
JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
5th Nov 2020 11:53am
5th Nov 2020 11:53am
[ Birthday 2020 ] Light Day
It feels like forever
since the last occasion
I gifted you a poem
---wasn't so long ago
or a special day at all
I recall
but simply a pond'ering
I felt froggy about --- leaping
legal pads in pretend leather
binding together my usual
croaked absurdities ( hardly
ribeting reading material )
during what seemed
an insufferable summer
due to climate changing
a global virus rearranging
our notions of normality
...
since the last occasion
I gifted you a poem
---wasn't so long ago
or a special day at all
I recall
but simply a pond'ering
I felt froggy about --- leaping
legal pads in pretend leather
binding together my usual
croaked absurdities ( hardly
ribeting reading material )
during what seemed
an insufferable summer
due to climate changing
a global virus rearranging
our notions of normality
...
#love
#BestFriend
#birthday
625 reads
13 Comments
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