Best Cents Poems

BROWNED-CENTS

One of the true ways 
to remain in captivity is to keep silent to avoid your captor’s 
hostility and confusion

A penny for my 
thoughts has provided me with the ammunition 
To fight for what I believe in, though anything I say can and will be...

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She worked at a boozy ballroom, dancing for 10 cents a dance 
Barely enough to eat and pay her rent in a rundown seedy hotel 
So young, so alone raised by no one but herself 
Oh, she had parents, but they didn’t see her, didn’t...

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one two three
my all time favorite
fancy and bright
pretty to look at

delish on my tongue
sprinklings of sugar
squishy between my teeth
yummy on my lips

spearmint delights
refreshing jujubes
perfect molded leaves
three two one

~ sweet nostalgia



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on November 3, 2018...

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Just 38 Cents a Day


Throughout history food has been used as a
Weapon of Mass Destruction.  The Romans
would pillage and plunder – then burn the
fields of the defeated, punishing all who
survived.  The Apache are alleged to have
poisoned the water holes when retreating
through the desert...

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I got a call today from a bill collector. He said I owe 67 cents to me it makes no sense 
why you call for only 67 cents. You say if I don’t pay you will put it in the news paper 
that will cost...

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Here we go again bein' charmed by every political buffoon,

Promisin' each of us ever'thing, the sun, the stars, the moon!

Looks like Trump and Clinton will be nominated fer the election.

Lord, have mercy on this nation!  Ain't very much of a selection!

One who has a...

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evolution isnt a scam
progression is all that i am
so hurdles i clear
without any fear
means i dont need parts of a ram.....

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Coffee freshly brewed
With sugar and lightener
Sixty cents per cup...

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I'd rather be a nerd than a turd.                                     ...

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A pack of cigarettes cost 15¢ 
those were the days
I’m not lying
I remember

my first flight
everything was different
I could see the back yard
the trail to the woods

under the baby robins 
mouths wide open
mother flitting back and forth
back and forth

across miles of picket fence 
wrapped around the...

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21 Cents

The information blackouts
Are drawn at Whitehall, while
Our controls are being hacked 
And hijacked, those freedoms
That our parents fought seem 
Threatened by a dangerous dream.
Eugenics shadows of the past, 
Mechanics to assist or replace.

The voluntary amputee goes
Beyond the boundaries most
Would wish to traverse, or
Rather climb...

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Does that make any cents

Sight sound smell taste and touch
are the five senses

not to be confused with

five census

because

you don't need all of your senses

to be listed in a census

does that make sense to you?

five pennies should be called five cents

but isn't that called a nickel

does...

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The concept of time is an elusive dream
The concept of thought in time more elusive
Since i overcame the space time constraints
And followed a path ordained from the start

      ..Paid they thirty cents of coins to the betrayer
   ...

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Till cents,

In scent,

Till recent!...

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her name is not even mentioned in the Holy Scriptures
but the widowed woman who gave two mites left a lasting picture
when no one mentions their name most people get put out
but who cares about a name as long as God's business you're about?
as quick as...

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