Money
...A long verse on an even longer subject
The eye of most everything is money
Their power over us is unsurpassed
Hey, got the dough? May call me “honey”
To get away, to buy me things, to have a bl...
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Categories:
big shot, money,
Form: Rhyme
What's This Picture Worth
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It has been said pictures are worth a lot
A photo of this wanna be big shot
Leaves no room for doubting
Like a child he's pouting
With want to rule the whole world, he's besot
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Categories:
big shot, how i feel,
Form: Limerick
The Fallen And Forgotten
...The Fallen and Forgotten/
Used to be infamous/
Soldiers of the streets/
No matter how you going out with a bang/
You will be forgotten/
Your name to be added/
To the list of the fallen/
There'...
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Categories:
big shot, betrayal, change, character, freedom,
Form: Free verse
A Set Of Flowering Tankas
...Tidal connection,
wild flowers woo a Clownfish;
Anemone bond,
give in give up a little;
Flourish and flow together.
Seeds of ambrosia,
birds fight over leftovers;
Mammals with munchies
pass...
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Categories:
big shot, emotions, feelings, flower, nature,
Form: Tanka
Kibitzer
...Don't frame in the midst
You might come across big shot
Bumped into a cyst....
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Categories:
big shot, conflict, culture, humanity, society,
Form: Haiku
Expresso Shot
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“Expresso Shot”
He drank tibetan milk tea
from his saucer
like a cloistered munk
his conversation
was hushed and tinctured
with fountains of try-too-hard satire
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Categories:
big shot, muse,
Form: Narrative
Dot To Dot
...What do you see from dot to dot, do you see the line I have got. ...
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Categories:
big shot, boat, flower, fun, games,
Form: Rhyme
Amazon Rider
...Twelve royal labors, you faced each challenge hard and mean.
Claimed delicate favors; made good on stripping a warrior queen.
Amazon rider, you jump her bareback as you please.
You get soul deep i...
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Categories:
big shot, allegory, bullying, mythology,
Form: Lyric
When Harry Met Meagan
...On the night Harry met Meagan Markle,
He couldn't believe how she sparkled,
For she was quite a dish,
And he made then a wish,
She'd be his for he was already partial,
To the way that she stoo...
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Categories:
big shot, funny love,
Form: Limerick
My Bucket Lists a Little Pail
...I suppose the usual suspects,
should fill up this poem,
City of lights, ancient pyramids,
colosseum in Rome,
To be honest I seen all these places,
sitting playing the slots,
Yeah we’re talki...
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Categories:
big shot, allusion, america, holiday, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Big Sleep
...I'm in a tight spot
this guns for hire
sure it spits fire
but only six shots
I'm in nightmare alley
down a side street
I see a red light
no black angel's in sight
there's no place to pray...
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Categories:
big shot, america,
Form: Rhyme
The Werewolf Banditos, Part Iv
...IV.
As the werewolves all funneled to that narrow gorge,
the brush was pulled away, revealing a cannon’s bore,
the beasts were to furious to see they were caught,
Bob pulled back on the cord, f...
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Categories:
big shot, adventure, animal, conflict, dark,
Form: Epic
The 40 Year Plan
...Here are the lyrics:
Got a dream that seems so far
With just himself and an old guitar
Taking a ride to a roadside bar
Plugging in to be a big big star.
Chorus
Just a young man and a 40 year...
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Categories:
big shot, integrity, people,
Form: Ballad
Paper Gangster
...I can't handle pretenders.
Something someone is not.
No 'spect for a paper gangster.
Living a fake life until caught.
A lawyer watching Son's of Anarchy.
Blue jeans with vest, will be looking ...
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Categories:
big shot, image, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Oscar-Ku 22 - All the King's Men
...hardball demagogue
ruthless big shot Willie Stark-
women, gambling, guns
Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Hollywood Haiku" via wattpad.com...
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Categories:
big shot, america, anger, corruption, film,
Form: Haiku
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