Best Shorted Poems
How I Got Richer and What I Did Next
...How I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making f......
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Categories:
shorted, allegory, funny, heaven, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Neti, Neti
..."Don’t try to drag me into Oz
It will never work
I’ll kill the Munchkins and the witch
I swear I’ll go berserk"
--From "Malice In Wonderland" by Joyce Rugg
The scandal behind us,
We look to b......
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Categories:
shorted, evil, , hinduism,
Form:
Free verse
Resonance
...When will it happen that
in an assemblage of
two or three computers,
in a house wired badly
by a drunken electrician
twenty years before, a
steady wave pulse emerges
between the dishwasher,
and the ......
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Categories:
shorted, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Shorted
...Procrastination
time well wasted or a gift
for work compacted......
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Categories:
shorted, work
Form:
Haiku
The Deception of the American Public - a Satire
...The Deception of the American Public - A Satire
By Elton Camp
I’m so shocked I don’t know what to say
We are shorted out of an inch at Subway
About that delicious inch, I really care
Without it, I......
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Categories:
shorted, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Alphabet Soup
...I make my checklist
And begin
Words and lyrics don’t blend but
Numbers
Concise, not deris{ive}
Begun thinking again. Stop.
Classical music; diction-less connotation.
The history bar grows longer b......
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Categories:
shorted, computer-internet, life, social, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Texas Rainbows Flicker a Lilibonelle
...North Richland Hills grew a rainbow I wanted to hold in my hand
Wand for wishing I don’t know what to reach-ask for?
Plethora is sunshine below the bow along your Texas land
Donned a different app......
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Categories:
shorted, faithinternet, rainbow,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Depression Is
...Depression Is
Depression is...
a dog-paddle in The Tar Pit of Agony
a slow drop into Quicksand
a dark marsh at night
a fallen, hollow tree
a desert of endless ......
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Categories:
shorted, bereavement, death, depression, mental
Form:
Free verse
The Good Samaritan Comes Home
...This good Samaritan tending to
this loney neglected grave,
making it look as clean as it
had been in ages.
A tear rolls down his face, knowing
that too much time had passed by,
he s......
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Categories:
shorted, fatherhome, home, i love
Form:
Free verse
Gaining/Loss
...Each day I'm growing shorter
And I was not ever tall.
Perhaps instead of dying
I'll just shrink to none at all.
Is that an oxymoron?
How can anyone grow short?
But that's what he said I'm doi......
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Categories:
shorted, funny
Form:
Light Verse
More Than the Cat
...When working in a garage late,
I heard a funny sound.
The workshop lift had just begun,
To rise up from the ground.
Now it was late and only me,
Should still be working here.
To hear the lift......
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Categories:
shorted, jobs, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Some Things Are Better Unplanned
...all in the astrological
a probable obstacle
opposing a closing
on misquoting
avoiding acknowledging
a declaration
of ever changing information
staging the hesitation
as engaging the conversa......
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Categories:
shorted, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
La La Land
...Don't think everyone eats
Because you eat
Or drinks clean water
Because you still can.
Don't think everyone has a bed
On which to lay their head
Don't think there's a stove
Like yours in e......
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Categories:
shorted, allusion, dark,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Black Hand.
...Woke early morning hand gone dark,
Pitch black soaked through.
Picked up phone to check messages and battery died,
Flipped on light and bulb shorted out,
Put on shirt and tore a hole,
Tied shoes......
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Categories:
shorted, adventure, confusion, death, life
Form:
Free verse
Finger Stomping
...Down the road at 45 per hour
to the recycle center.
Just minding my own business.
When here comes a car
across the line in that 55 zone
STRAIGHT AT ME !!!!!!
Some idiot thumb stomping a cell ph......
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Categories:
shorted, funnyme, me,
Form:
Free verse