Bonus Rounds
This year I turned 41
That's 16 more than I thought I'd get
I mean teachers, police, parents
Hell, even the statistics said 25 was it
So for me, my day-to-day is weird
Every morning a hard-earned prize
Since I never thought I would see it
Nothing matters for me, a constant surprise
I feel like I already hit the lotto
The biggest prize
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Categories:
bonus, america, appreciation, black african
Form: Rhyme
a geek's bonus
An unshaven programmer tech
Drooled java on a Starbucks deck
His net earnings grew
As fooled patrons threw
Dinero to pay for his check
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Categories:
bonus, humor, irony, money, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
February's final bonus
A prime-numbered day if years leap
Adds one extra cycle for sleep
This calendar fact
Keeps seasons intact
And discounts our rents that ain't cheap
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Categories:
bonus, february, money, sleep,
Form: Limerick
- My Bonus Child -
~ every memory is of infinite value - my poems were born ~
(My first poem: 11/26/2011 - Old Memories -)
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Categories:
bonus, birth, poems,
Form: Monoku
Grand Bonus
While to myth seers, leap year is mysterious
Science explains it, never injurious
For me, the Lord meant such as victorious
Wondrous grand bonus for gracious day’s gift*.
*Ecclesiastes 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
January 22, 2020
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Categories:
bonus, appreciation, blessing, christian, day,
Form: Tail-rhyme
What Bonus
Feeling hopeless
Feeling down
Looking at the paper
Here in my hand
They say it’s a bonus
They say it’s really good
But what I read
Sounds like a bill
I need lots of money
More than I have ever had
And give it to them
I don’t understand
They’ll give more papers
They say I can sell them
Are worth even more
But I don’t got the money
They
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Categories:
bonus, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bonus Time
...happening today
She watched me tilt my head and look eyedrops into each eye and shuddered, saying "I can't do that" I looked at her in disbelief! She, recovering from her 3rd fall, same wrist broken twice, bravely isolated in a re-hab facility with that dead-air & feint chemical odor. My eyes, swollen with allergies following
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Categories:
bonus, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Christmas Bonus
Christmas indeed is blissfully wondrous
Yet one character makes my child nervous
A Santa granting no gift
As if showing dearth midst thrift
Negating spirit to be generous.
My boy’s Christmas fright can be humorous
Yet his demands for giving* is serious
Toward season’s blessed lift
Against “mine alone” rift…
Thank God, He's poured his special needs’ bonus!
*Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all
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Categories:
bonus, appreciation, child, christmas, god,
Form: Limerick
Prisoner of the Pen With Bonus Stanza From Darren White
"Last letters fall off a lonely page, punished the pen
sits silent, recovering from past strokes of sage."
Bluebirds sing along with Springs triumphant return
red and yellow tulip's splendor fall out in front of me
my inquisitive mind inhales nature's fresh awakening
as my pen stares off aimlessly to another place in time
Write for me they plead,
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Categories:
bonus, feelings, freedom, muse,
Form: Free verse
Bonus Time
My moisturizer’s from Clinique.
When I am running low,
I wait until it’s bonus time
And to the store I go.
For give-aways are advertised –
With purchases, of course;
You have to spend a set amount,
Which all the clerks enforce.
So 27 was the price
You’d need to qualify
For the make-up bag of goodies
That Clinique would then supply.
I plucked my lotion
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Categories:
bonus, business,
Form: Rhyme
Butterfly Bonus- Haiku
Butterfly Bonus – Haiku
giant boulders block
gale winds turn crunchy brown leaf
butterfly follows
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Categories:
bonus, butterfly, image, insect, nature,
Form: Haiku
Defend Thy Bonus
Defend Thy Bonus!
(For Boris and Those City Boys of London)
“They’ll leave! They’ll leave!”
He cried, with a look of sheer panic
In those innocent blue eyes
“And ‘The City’ will be poorer without them....!” (he lied).
“Let them go! Let them go!” I cried
In fact let me help them pack
So I can be sure they
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Categories:
bonus, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Kamikazee Kid---Extended Version of Kid's Nowadays Including Bonus Footage
Lemme tell ya'
about a kid
whose mind is so far down the gutter
he was seen scheming on another kid's mother
being obscene
at the scene he
whistled and muttered
"Nice Udders!"
I'm telling you
little dude is smooth
with more game than Milton Bradley
at nine years old
he already got hold of
College Girls Behaving Badly...
if you think that's bad
lemme tell
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Categories:
bonus, funny, teen, urban,
Form: Light Verse
Stubborn Ol' No. 9 Bonus Clue
Some have come close, but you've got to figure ouy all the angles.
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Categories:
bonus, adventure, confusion, mystery, nature,
Form: I do not know?