Best Stipend Poems

Last night I awoke to the sign of Orion, and the big dipper pouring beauty into her
countenance.

Though the stars say she is a Capricorn, a...

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can't even fart anymore
without kicking up a hurricane
halfway around the Earth
according to reports this has occurred
at a great loss of life and mind
within minutes of...

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Please stop child labor
Let the poor kids go to school
Please give them stipend...

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Learning disabled, hopelessly unemployed
Troy can't write the address for his next interview.
Warehouse stock, 331 Tiffany Street, in the Bronx.
His girlfriend, Trinity, also unemployed,
with one child...

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I Don't Want to Live This Life

(Change of pace equals review of book
long out of circulation,
but eyes experience immediate hook
so perhaps...take a look
and best locate...

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What can I say about my sisters?
Are they a thorn in the side, like blisters?
Or my oldest friends, indeed,
Always mentors in time of need,
The family...

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In bridled hovel on denuded strand
Tanned damsel loiters on barter stand
Waiting for purloined fealty her title to brand
Festooned in ritual garb, decked with lavish garland
As...

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Poets ponder
They cannot squander
A stipend they do not receive

For paid in thought
Their piece of mind
Are words formed and conceived

A tale of sorts
Depiction of life
Even death,...

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Wake! and see the extent to which you’re still enslaved
        enslaved by your own kind who hanker after...

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November is disappearing quickly
autumn colors remain unnoticed by the masses
only thing to look forward to is Thanksgiving,
but after the turkey and pumpkin pie are gobbled...

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At first sight of first snow colour 
Scrapbook memories stir with folk within
Where spirits of love, caring, and sharing were
Whispers of our life we shared,...

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there once was a time
when i had value---
a worthy member
of society---
a respected entity;
but that was
when i was a young twig…
today i am seen as a...

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Austrian princess taken from her home,
stripped of everything that she ever known.

Her mother arranged a political marriage,
sending her to France with a horse and carriage

Off...

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Let not this fire spread

To the rising smoke & flame put an end

To the oil, tears and blood spilled and shed

To the loss and broken...

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Reflection, relaxation around the bend
Long work week careening to dead end
Hard work's gratuities in rear view portend
A brief sabbatical our inflated value to pretend
Week's rat...

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