If cancer were money!
...If cancer were money
Yo,
If cancer were money,
Then I'd be rich!
Got stacks of agony and life's a .
Thinkin' it's the cancer, but nah, it's the real cash,
Agony's my currency and it's runnin'...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, cancer, death, fantasy, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Cynicism
...im playing cards with pandora
and she’s bleeding her hand
its so painfully obvious
i see her grand plan,
because calamities hit a set
and she’s feeling alright
but theres one card left
im hold...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Cards
...im playing cards with pandora
and she’s bleeding her hand
its so painfully obvious
i see her grand plan,
because calamities hit a set
and she’s feeling alright
but theres one card left
im hold...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, addiction, anxiety, hope, mental
Form: Rhyme
Hidden By Another Skin: The Unexpected Use of An Orange
...
A curled-dry orange peel,
all that stands against gray
dark lips of gaping hole,
whose eye can steal your form,
or lift your full bankroll.
A curled-dry orange peel,
hanging pith on the ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, fruit,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Haikus of Suffering
...Haikus of Suffering
Your memory rains
Sorrow drenches me with tears.
Crashed... last fifteen years.
Now sixty-two... old.
I have no young grand-children,
but one abortion.
She lef...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, age, lost, love, pain,
Form: Haiku
Gateway Town
...Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, allusion, city, class, longing,
Form: Rhyme
The Challenge of the Night
...*Image of Night Images by Pixabay.
The Challenge of the Night,
'O Challenge of
the night spilt love,
thy fruits consumed me whole,
You wet my lip,
my heart did sip,
and bore fr...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, allusion, dark, depression, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Some Tour In Brazil
...A TOUR IN BRAZIL
Who has never seen,
when sees it passes
amazed.. how is it
big this Sampa...
At night feeling cold,
I missed the
Rio heat, city
Wonderful...
who came from behind
or climbe...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Choosing To Believe
...The weight of old age increases with time,
dragging spirits down a depressive hole.
And taking pills, prescribed to ease your pain,
the last years are anything but sublime.
You question i...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Wash Day
...The wife just went to spend a dime
But found she uncovered a crime
Inside the bowl
Was a bankroll
Of Ben Franklins sinking in slime...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, culture,
Form: Limerick
Back To Work
...A secretary must control
A randy boss's rigid pole
Her knickers extol
A lacy peephole
A fitting end to his bankroll...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, relationship, women, work,
Form: Limerick
Pauly's Bank Deposits
...Pauly’s Bank Deposits
Pauly’s passkey
Pickup hiccups
Passbook Facebook
Payload payroll
Honey money
Crossbow bankroll
5/18/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021 ©...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, analogy, confusion, funny, money,
Form: Footle
Twenty-One All the Time
...
One of my many foibles is greed.
I have placed myself in a bad situation indeed.
If I only hadn't sat at this blackjack table today.
My depleted bankroll won't permit me to stay.
I am f...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, games,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboy Lover
..."I didn't want to break your heart.
I had no thought of that at all,
When I told you I'd be leaving
Right after roundup time this fall.
A cowboy's life is lonely,
A saddle, bridle and a horse,
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, heartbreak, heartbroken, horse,
Form: Rhyme
I'd Find Nirvana
...I'd find nirvana, if I could,
on distant coast by lapping bay,
far from all strain of daunting day.
Sustain no drama, as I should,
an ataraxis of my mind
that is a spot I'd wish to fin...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
bankroll, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Related Poems