Best Nine Days Poems

High fives.
Jive talkin'.
I get off at five.

Five is dark these days,
thriving is scarcer and
scarcer.

Deprivation has lots of syllables.
So many that it distracts from contemptible
WAIT!  That sounds judgmental.

I don't want to sound that way.

So I will make my way.
Hope somebody's god grants me
patience!...

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Nine days of waiting for the results,
For the good news that I've been dreaming,
To take my vacation for one month,
Wish granted that’s what I've been praying.

The time has come and I’m so happy,
To be away from my busy world,
Take a rest while I still have...

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It was the Eighth Day, the day after,
small undeveloped brains
began to question.

Pigs were still good to eat
but hard to catch.
The stone axe and the throwing stick
were ideal for nothing much, but sufficed
to make the little men constantly
on the edge of famine.

Some thought that a man...

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NINE DAYS LEFT

Nine days until graduation day
I can’t believe it’s finally time
It’s taken a long time to get here
I have waiting a very long time
The special day has almost arrived
I hope I don’t trip across the state
Cannot wait to get my diploma
And finally be done...

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