Best Filed Poems

Note: These "Freestyles Filed" are pieces quickly written, with a time limit for each line and no editing. Similar to freestyle raps but instead straight onto paper.

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Note: These "Freestyles Filed" are pieces quickly written, with a time limit for each line and no editing. Similar to freestyle raps but instead straight onto paper.

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So You Haven’t Filed Your Income Tax Yet

By Elton Camp

You don’t want penalties cause it’s late
So why or why did you procrastinate
“I will do it for sure tomorrow,” you say
But tomorrow you wait yet another day

There is a good chance a refund is due
But until...

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The tell me the waters of the sea
Are little children's tears
The rivers that flowed from me
And victims of forgotten years
In little dark corners shaking
Hungry and starved for light
Bodies bruised and minds aching
Injuries covered from the sight
Today I am going to the seaside
I shall build new...

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The old soldier, rheumy eyed and cold
Sits at attention in his wheelchair
Bemedalled chest heaving gently
Thinks of comrades not there.
Now just bones in cemeteries 
Some not even identified 
anonymous bodies collected
From where they died
To be laid in the rows and lines
Of the parade square of the...

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Night Light
David J Walker

By night
In flight
You can see the lights that
Blink and shine on the  
City of the Mesa 

Hundreds of thousands crowd 
The borders and boundaries of
The out-of-date asphalt plat
Where farm and field
Yield
 to the plans of the 
City planners 

Pushing the planters
Further...

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