Severance Pay
...Time hands seconds past the minute,
winter melts the sands,
sprung barter the seeds to take root,
petals leave for lands.
Abandoned juice bathes the barren,
weather soaks wet dreams,
towering...
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Categories:
grocers, environment, growth, imagery, new
Form: Rhyme
Cicada Dreaming: Where have the cicadas gone? 2021
...Cicada Dreaming was told to Roland Robinson in 1965 by Julia Charles of the Yoocum Yoocum clans from the area around Wollumbin in the headwaters of the Tweed River, Northern NSW and is used with perm...
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Categories:
grocers, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Saddle Your Horse
...Saddle your horse and get ready for the ride; this will be your final day before you take off to the sky, the weather is too dry over here and we have nothing more to share; I have to reserve what I ...
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Categories:
grocers, appreciation, business, celebration, funny
Form: Lyric
The Gs Have It
...glib glassy green-eyed gruesome ghoulish goblins grabbing gloriously
glitzy glimmers of gourmet garnish. Giants give garbled ghosts gruff
growls. Gargantuous groups of glamorous gargoyles give gr...
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Categories:
grocers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Exemplar
...Did I learn a worthy trade? Study war as a warrior?
Was I a helper, a first responder,
nurse, nanny, priest, pumpkin farmer,
a horny handed laborer,
did I lecture nitwit’s on the liberal arts o...
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Categories:
grocers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Vegan Megan's Sandwitch
...When beef and ham went underground
The grocers cheered for they had found
When meat has roots
No one disputes
The moldy green that grows around...
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Categories:
grocers, food,
Form: Limerick
In Search Of
...I found it in a small community grocery store. It all started back in March when the q...
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Categories:
grocers, desire, food,
Form: Narrative
Love In Post World War Ii
...LOVE IN POST WORLD WAR 11
3rd and final episode of trilogy
My Grandfather was incredibly anglicised
Studied in London and qualified as an optician
My mother learnt English at school,
She was m...
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Categories:
grocers, love,
Form: Free verse
The Hyperactive Stranger At Bristle Grocers Where's the Beef - a Narrative Poem
...The Hyperactive Stranger At Bristle Grocers WHERE'S THE BEEF - A Narrative Poem
One day at a grocery shop,
I met a man selling meats,
For the money, he wanted to swap,
But I wanted some wh...
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Categories:
grocers, analogy, engagement, how i
Form: Narrative
These Days
...The hovering heavy clouds of a Monday,
Where behind tight windows
Those who once were a part of God’s world
Wander hidden away from others.
Where once more they wash and rewash and clean,
And f...
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Categories:
grocers, confusion, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Battle Hymn of Covid19
...I cannot let this obsession with Coronavirus (COVID19) go
It is apparent, from the number of deaths projected, to be in the hundreds of thousands, that many Americans still are not heeding the warni...
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Categories:
grocers, america, death, health, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
In the Far Off Land of China - Edit 1
...In the Far Off Land of China
(To the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Edit 1
By Franklin Price
03/28/2020
In the Far off land of China many thousand miles away
The Coronavirus came to...
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Categories:
grocers, america, confusion, health, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
In the Far Off Land of China
...The Battle Hymn of the Republic was the rallying song for the United States of America during the Civil War. It was written and published the first time in February 1862; shortly after the war began....
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Categories:
grocers, america, encouraging, health, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Hard These Days For a Crook
...It’s hard these days for a crook.
Go anywhere around and take a look.
Ain’t no shops to rob of jewelry.
They all closed up and got security.
Not even restaurants for him to rob,
and at the groce...
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Categories:
grocers, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Not Nutella
...US americans
spending weeks
camping on a beach
in Greece breaks the body
down to where
we've gathered one
by one collecting each
and everyone's drachmas
we need
peanut
butter
the
re...
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Categories:
grocers, muse,
Form: I do not know?
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