Your Choice P Hardware Girl
...The first poem I posted on Soup. One of the first 200 poems I deleted. I found a rough copy in an old scribble book.
Hardware Blues.
My dad he went down fighting, to keep his local hardware stor...
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Categories:
cut price, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Unreported News
...Songs from a life, sounds like the blues,
microwave fries, pot noodle, stews,
dead on two legs, only half-nine,
saying yes, to the overtime,
this months rent and the kids' new shoes.
Paying fo...
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Categories:
cut price, abuse, children, life, wine,
Form: Rondeau
Sneakered
...In Air Jorden’s he strode proud,
with name-brands he stood
apart.
In closets
sneakers walked
not far from their boxes.
Heel to toe stock grew
Well known on eBay,
to barter, trade and ...
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Categories:
cut price, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Man Isle
...Man Isle
From Russia with love ten thousand missiles
All for NATO the US Europe and Ukraine
Forged in battle ordered fired by Putin
New way to do things poor cold soldiers
Sent to battle warm th...
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Categories:
cut price, death, technology, war,
Form: Free verse
In Walmart
...I find myself foraging, basket in hand
among the cocoa harvests of distant lands.
A shaft of light crashes
like a Chinese paratrooper
through the store’s skylight,
rays pierce high-stacked she...
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Categories:
cut price, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In Walmart
...I find myself foraging, basket in hand
among the cocoa harvests of distant lands.
A shaft of light crashes
like a Chinese paratrooper
through the store’s skylight,
rays pieces high-stacked she...
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Categories:
cut price, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Adam In Walmart
...I find myself foraging, basket in hand
among the cocoa harvests of distant lands.
You ask patiently: what do you need?
As you speak a shaft of light crashes
like a Chinese paratrooper
throug...
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Categories:
cut price, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Post Valentine's Day Cynic
...Not a good year for the roses
Cut price Valentine roses
languish in black buckets
heads drooping like a rejected lover
Calorific candy confectionery in boxes
covered with ...
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Categories:
cut price, humorous, valentines day,
Form: Free verse
Cut-Price Poetry
...Why am I drawn
to this scowling girl
selling her poems
in a Shinjuku underpass?
Every Tuesday she is here,
next to a Nikon ad,
threatening commuters
with her cyclostyled angst.
Busy peopl...
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Categories:
cut price, angst, business, city, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Color Purplish
...The man on the porch looks out
over his property and towards his daughter.
Nervousness seeps through her plum-dark flesh.
Each eye contact signposts a wicked meditation.
Women are voiceless in th...
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Categories:
cut price, culture, film, women,
Form: Free verse
The Cut Price Wedding
...Angus and Morag decided to get married
Twenty years together – too long they had dallied
So off to the registry office they did go
To book the wedding and get on with the show
Angus being a canny Sc...
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Categories:
cut price, humorous, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
The Color Purplish
...The man on the porch looks out
over his property and towards his daughter.
Nervousness seeps through her plum-dark flesh.
Each eye contact signposts a wicked meditation.
Women are voiceless in th...
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Categories:
cut price, longing, race, strength,
Form: Verse