Best Rent Poems

When gay meant happy and kwier meant odd
  You didn't swear in public, right in front of God
You wore a suit to the World Series, a hat to work
  If your team won, you didn't loot or go berserk

You cheered the President, shook...

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The sign read
Apartment for rent
Within heritage building
I climbed steep steps to the third level
Big windows and hardwood floors
A nice cozy nest
To call home

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May 14, 2015

Poetry/Septet Verse/For Rent
Copyright Protected, ID 05-673-104-14
All Rights Reserved, 2015, Constance La France


Written for the Standard contest, Give Me A Sign
sponsor,...

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Here ye! Here ye! Here ye!
Starting a new business I am
“Rent A Poetry Man” I call it
I'll come to your house in a van

For a nominal fee of just a dollar
I will fashion a poem for you
To suit any happy occasion
So you'll remember the do

I...

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courtesy of management in general
and particularly Jackie Geiger 
assistant property agent.

One benefit living social 
at Highland Manor Apartments
until decrepit and bent...
constitutes qualifying for reimbursement
direct deposited into checking
as chump change event,
hence one generic grateful gent
feels self satisfied as Clark Kent.

After broken wing and prayer
granted courtesy The...

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Frame is solid, some refurbishing needed; I have a room for rent
Only needs a few repairs and my patience has well been spent
Ready for immediate occupancy as soon as one can spare

Renovations commencing instantly; rent is somewhat fair 
Equipped with all the essentials; a spacious...

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       Live in my heart, rent-free
           Now and forever more.
         Don't stay out in the cold; 
    ...

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I've traipsed down a cobble of your path.
If you're ever lost, forgotten or misstep
I'll surely spruce up a room for you.
It'll be on the mundane -humble side 
but safe-warm and welcoming
like in a child's sunlit dream.
I can cloak the well-worn floor
with a pattern of your...

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the keys stick when I type,
the ink smudges on cheap paper,
there’s an old man in the corner
laughing through his dentures at my words.
he knows, I know—
it’s all garbage,
all of it.

writing the same worn-out lines,
spinning circles around rent checks
that will barely clear.
this morning, the phone rang,
and...

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Jack put his ol body out for rent
His wife got mad and did vent
Threw him out of the house
Now he lives with a mouse
In a 1940's pup tent...

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You try it,
You even buy it,
You don't get it,
You claim it,
You disclaim it,
It works,
It doesn't,
Again, you denied it,
You pay, your stay: monthly, annually
You gain, sustain,
You barter, charter,
You bargain, you bust
it stays a must.
You cry,
You cuss,
You fuss,
Sign on the line
It pays
betrays
Rent -- it stays....

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Written October 13, 2016


Your love is a fortress
But I can't afford it
The price has been driven too high
By gentrification and the likes of some guy
Who's labeled it "rustic" and "chic"
All this rent is too steep
So I walk around town
Just to find a place to sleep
Be...

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If that's that then what's this?

If it's guilt trip,
I don't have time for it,

if it's fake bliss,
why can't I return even to miss?

If that's that,
and this aint' this,

take my brain,

take my prince,

and princess,

and eagerness-

take what it is the world started,

but you entangled with prints...

'You saved...

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Small Summer Cabins for Rent on Lovegrove Lake
				by Barbara C. Agarwal


I left my chance when
A chance I did not take
When I saw you long, long ago
At Lovegrove Lake.

Do you remember per chance also,
Me perched on the wee porch there?
Me, dangling my silver sandal?
And sipping my...

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When I go to pay my rent,
In lies, no true, say I spent
Yen. Why so few stay high? Vent
Sins! Cry woes! New ways by, went
Men. Guys show blues play eyes. Cents
Spend! Buy lows who may die. Gents
Win sly dough; Views day skies sent....

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  OLD WOMAN 
I am the old woman who lives in a shoe
I have so many children telling me what to do
Some are twenty, thirty, forty and fifty too
but to hear them all screaming you'd think they were two

Tattling and fighting, yelling, squawking, all...

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