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  Fools Die by Mario Puzo

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  Puzo, Mario. Fools Die. New York. Signet, 1979 In this fictitious novel Mario Puzo places Merlyn, a struggling writer, in a life where the main goal in life is to get ahead, get rich, and get fame. Merlyn visits Hollywood, Las Vegas, and New York seeing new places, people, and poisons. In this ne...
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  The Family by Mario Puzo

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  Puzo, Mario. The Family. New York: Avon Books.2001 In history books there are tales and rumors of the Borgias being a horrible, sinful, and merciless family. Some accuse Lucrezia of being a whore and committing incest; Cesare an unholy man that kills to only sate his thirst for blood; Cardinal Rodr...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Ballad Of The Left Bride

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  Her death was swift When she ended her life She laid there limp With the wedding knife...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Shell

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  On the outside You see Colors flushed Eyes moving But inside There's Silence Death Consumes Me....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Beater

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  The mark from my lover's hand is gone but forever recorded in my bones and skin. Everyday my mind replays the moment his hand flew upon my face the pain is still there. Such impact not only damaged my face but my love for him. Once a tower of strength once a tower of comfor...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Fooling Mask

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  She cries Every wink Every grin Every bit of laughter Covers her pain Her loss Her every fiber Shattered From the world she hides her broken heart Her broken dreams Her broken fantasies Of everlasting love Happiness Bliss Peace But no one can see No one looks past her perfect face ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Shallow

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  When you look at me Is all you see A pretty face and curved body? When you look into my eyes? Do you visualize the deepness of my soul? Or do you plainly look into the color That sits in them like chocolate gold? Tell me. Are you different from the others? Do you look beyond the paint A...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Stop The Time

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  Smash the cold clocks Trash the dials of light Douse the Sun Shroud the Moon in its own darkness Have all measurements of time destroyed Erased Forgotten Never to be recreated Have space stop in mid-step Let me remain in his arms Kept in this lucid dream Forever suspended in this sweet f...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Battle

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  Pride The never ending battle Within myself Between love or isolation To have someone or have none To give in or to simply give out To say I'm sorry rather than It's over Between a sweet short joy or a long empty void To be vulnerable with him or protected without A deci...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Puppet

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  My breath stops My heart begins to race My eyes glow bright When I see your face My feet grow heavy I suddenly feel weak My body can longer move My mouth won't open to speak I am in a daze I can't make a step Caught in your enchanting haze I have became your marionette...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Time and Life

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  The world turns And time flies The weather changes And we lives our lives People enter People leave So much happens in between Love is found Hatred is discovered Jealousy finds us Our true selves uncovered Lives twist Destinies turn Dreams come alive Goals burn Time is in...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Alone With Only Me

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  Alone... Always alone. No one knows me. I'm constantly on my own. Alone. No one to share my thoughts with. No one to understand. Can't let anyone in. Can't put anything out. I unable to handle the emotional demand. Alone. Sadness always shoulders me. Alone. Is this ho...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Unspoken

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  His presence warms me Emitting rays of joy and delight into the air Seeping deep into my soul peace and tranquility Looking deeply into his brown eyes a quiet passion unfolds in my chest And to be only expressed with looks of adoration and soft caresses to the skin My hands telling him, ...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Changed

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  Guilt clouds my mind and my self-resentment bubbles to the surface. I purposely avoid him every waking moment of my life. The excuses pile up like landfills in the corners of my brain. I try to justify why I treat my father like he doesn't exist but the guilt still remains. The man that has be...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  I Want You

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  Dear Lover, Give me not A thousand precious jewels Flirty words of embellishment Or great promises of your supposed wealth I care not for these things I only want what my body desires The deep passionate press of your lips against my skin The cold wisps of your breath down my neck The po...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Alone at the Lunch Table

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY

  For most of my life I’ve felt alone. I never really had any one who liked me enough to even be considered an acquaintance. Always addressed as the brain, the kid, I felt like an alien in my school community. The only thing that kept me going to school was the teachers and the things I would discov...
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  Is There Something Out There?...

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY
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  Beauty

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY
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  Slumber

  

  By OldYoungOne, Louisville, KY