It Just Won't Let Me Go
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Something’s rumbling inside me
pushing, kicking
shoving, shouting
And it won’t let me go, oh no
It just won’t let me go…
I should consider
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Categories:
cash in, flying, sound, writing,
Form: Free verse
UNAFRAID OF PETERS HITMAN OR HIS KKK KNIGHTS IF COLUMBUS
...THREATS FROM MAFIA HITMAN FROM DETROIT FAKING HIS DEATH TO IMPERSONATE MY FATHER THE SON OF A MASONIC TEMPLE MEMBER 33 AND 3RD CHICAGO CHAPTER DUR TO PETERS GARGANO TIES TO MILWAUKEE DRUG OPERATION H...
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Categories:
cash in, allah,
Form: Naat
Categories:
cash in, happiness, life, money,
Form: Than-Bauk
candlelight and romance
...Candlelight and Romance
Suddenly, Portugal was flung into darkness
electricity stopped, and nothing functioned
anymore, credit cards were useless
and those types of cards were the norm as
peop...
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Categories:
cash in, angel, baby,
Form: ABC
Samantha’s Unwritten Vows
...The aisle stretched longer that day,
a white river with no other shore.
Her fingers crushed the lace of her gown—
Where is he?
The guests’ whispers grew teeth,
gnawing the silence between hymns....
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Categories:
cash in, anger, betrayal, cry, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Ideology
...Everyone believes the news
Until it's all disproved
In some dramatic fashion
When the headlines cash in
Everyone tells their family
Their family tells their friends
It doesn't matter what dir...
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Categories:
cash in, political, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful One
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Oh, drown my sorrow, sweet love of mine
Let me recite a sacred word:
Oh, love, my love, my only love
Cash in on all your dreams,
For truth shall come upon the day
In prayer, I ca...
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Categories:
cash in, beauty, inspirational love, light,
Form: Free verse
more gift cards
...More gift cards
What is it with people and the money they dream of I’m not a money person, cash in hand is ok
Perhaps a small account is enough for everyday use to repair a puncture.
A family f...
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Categories:
cash in, absence, age, anxiety,
Form: ABC
Down Where the Wildflowers Bloom
...Down in a cabin built by Daddy’s hand,
On the far side of her Grandpappy’s land,
Long now forgotten but once filled with life,
Daddy and Momma as husband and wife…
And only one child survived Mo...
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Categories:
cash in, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Bad day at Stop And Shop
...Jack had just escaped the local slammer
He’d struck the sheriff's car with a hammer.
He tried to look normal, in an aisle in Stop and Shop
But he wondered who might be an undercover cop.
Sall...
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Categories:
cash in, chocolate, confusion, hilarious, humor,
Form: Lyric
What Love Isn't
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love,
if indeed true,
isn't putting on pause
affection, approval, respect
until a condition,
or two, is met.
it isn't employing
control tactics
over anyone;
vote
with your feet
whe...
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Categories:
cash in, encouraging, love, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse
Lunacy
...I've always wished to be insane,
to cash in my brain,
and plunge me into the sea
of unhinged lunacy.
I'd roll around the drain,
block out the sun.
and fall from clouds like rain,
before my ...
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Categories:
cash in, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Nida Fazli translations by Michael R Burch
...Apni Marzi se
by Nida Fazli Shayari
translated by Mandakini Bhattacherya and Michael R. Burch
This journey was not of my making;
As the winds blow, I’m blown along ...
Time and dust are my anc...
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Categories:
cash in, death, grave, heart, life,
Form: Couplet
Hate is a strong word
...I hate that I do
And I hate that I continuously try with you
I hate that I know you will never be mine
I dislike that in the drop of a dime
I will drop anything to see you
In fact, I forget abou...
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Categories:
cash in, love, love hurts, men,
Form: Rhyme
In this Land
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In the midst of modern day's fray—
The leaders with dispiriting sway,
—make the youth feel small and humbled,
Their potentials wilted, withered, crumbled.
Education, once a glittering star—
No...
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Categories:
cash in, natural disasters,
Form: Other
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