Disbursed Poems

Premium MemberSaid in the Same Breath as Freedom - May 8

...“O’!, work, work, work away,—ignore your thirst
and shovel steadily—keep nourrishing the coals
of locomotive life!(the cost is but your souls);
All other occupations?—to hell dispersed!

“Amen! ...
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Categories: disbursed, america, freedom, irony, jobs,
Form: Italian Sonnet

The Loser's Heart

...Never count your chicken before they hatch because you cannot tell what is hiding around the back, never build your hopes too high or place your dreams above the sky, when in doubt, do your researche...
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Categories: disbursed, america, career, endurance, environment,
Form: Narrative


A Cup of Tea

...I kept thinking what life would be like if someone invited me out for a cup of tea in the middle of the night, I kept thinking what life would be like if morning was evening and evening was night, an...
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Categories: disbursed, america, business, caregiving, celebration,
Form: Narrative

Learning when how to close seat then

...Learning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!

Bull leave me you, though how bison
teen and juvenile 
from a sixty four year old
married male no less!

(alter...
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Categories: disbursed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAugust

...Assuage the scorching heat I pray.
Unleash the heavens’ clouds to burst.  
Grant the winds that will cool the day.
Unfurl the skies with rains disbursed.
Send g...
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Categories: disbursed, august, environment, god, heaven,
Form: Acrostic


Premium MemberThe Toilet Paper Revolution

...Date  June 2024
A large group  picketed outside 
Of the toilet paper factory. 
People held picket
Signs marching in a circular line.
The Group chanted: 
Revolters deserve better bottom
Paper o...
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Categories: disbursed, anger, history,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberChapter 80 --Damian Delilah Mallory: Congregations

...Damian Stood in the Hugh room
Surveying the expansiveness of
The place. "Yeah, this will be a
Imperial family event in my house.
The judges will be here too. 
There were two large tables 
The c...
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Categories: disbursed, abuse, confidence,
Form: Alliteration

A Bag of Spiders

...A bag of Spiders

Today, a special delivery came,
Spiders in a bag, a new game.

Open with caution, it warns,
If you are careless, they will swarm.

This writer is a fighter
And will not be ...
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Categories: disbursed, anxiety, games,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Pepperman and the Quantum Dot Program

...I OPENED A DOOR TO THE QUANTUM DOT WORLD 
OF INORGANIC ORGANIC MATERIALS.
ALSO KNOWN AS SYNTHETIC BEINGS. PART HUMAN 
PART MACHINE. ONE MIGHT EVEN SAY CYBORG.

CONTROLLED BY FREQUENCIES RADIATIN...
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Categories: disbursed, imagination,
Form: Free verse

An Empty Chair

...An Empty Chair

Behold, that golden sunset’s
Reddish tints of yellow
Fade unwillingly beyond those darkened trees
Where stood so many of our boys and theirs in days gone by
In their youths, the...
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Categories: disbursed, war,
Form: Free verse

A Voice To Be Heard

...In Silence, one speaks
Few words disbursed
In joyful as seek
Humbled, while meek
Time has come
A voice was heard
Inspirations to others
Gatherings of Sisters and Brothers.

Awards, achieveme...
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Categories: disbursed, appreciation, environment, future, giving,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAutumn Is Exquisite In Design

...leaves gently fall to the ground
in which they have no pattern
oranges, yellows & reds
disbursed in the streets and on lawns
autumn is exquisite in design...
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Categories: disbursed, autumn, red, yellow,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTwo Times Six Is Ten

...Two times six is ten?
This is an angry adult voice.
I do not recognize it.
The third grade class is silent.
Most of their eyes are popped open.
I smell fear as I enter the room.
It is the teach...
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Categories: disbursed, teacher,
Form: Narrative

The Oocupiers

...The Occupiers 

 Outside, the only road in my village
a horde of carts pulled by skinny horses full of furniture and children 
demanded access.
Our great grandfathers built this house we have
t...
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Categories: disbursed, absence, betrayal, hope,
Form: Blank verse

Kaleidoscopic Webbed Wide World Une

...Against light source well crafted 
tubular structure appended with eyepiece gazing
offers viewer eye-opening, mind boggling 
instantaneously birthing then vanishing
resplendent myriad colorful 
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Categories: disbursed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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