Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare
...Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare...
Earlier this merry month of May
a goniff who possibly did gossip
about his/her surreptitious exploits
when he/she brazen...
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Categories:
hard cash, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Destination
...Walking on orange clouds until I can't feel without instructions.
Tie the tourniquet as tight as you can as I take in the spring air from my window.
To grieve my past self would require energy that...
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Categories:
hard cash, addiction, drug,
Form: Free verse
WE
...I go here, I go there
I can go anywhere
I talk to him, I talk to her
I am confident, that's for sure
I do this, I do that
I go where the adventure is at
I work hard, I work fast
I make b...
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Categories:
hard cash, analogy, devotion, feelings, how
Form: Rhyme
streets of solitude
...after doors close after hours when scarlet neon flickers out red-light nights fill voids of need my body is a ripped flower my throat tingles to the burn of vodka-fire gleaning the ...
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Categories:
hard cash, business,
Form: Free verse
A Kilo of Flesh
...If I give you a kilo of my flesh would you leave me to bleed to death?
If I give you a kilo of my flesh would you approve the deal and stop the steal? I have no hard cash but I have assets that coul...
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Categories:
hard cash, animal, anti bullying, business,
Form: Narrative
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:
hard cash, abuse, children, life, wine,
Form: Rondeau
We as Characters of Narratives
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Each of us is born the main persona
in the narrative of his or her own life.
Through ever-changing atmosphere,
supporting characters and diversity of settings,
we help to mold the rising acti...
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Categories:
hard cash, life, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Mina Verbena
...Mina Verbena is selling her herbs
in a cart that she sets in the road by the curb.
If you’ve got some spare change, then she’s got some thyme,
or a nice bit of parsley, for only a dime.
Mina Ve...
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Categories:
hard cash, nursery rhyme,
Form: Quatrain
Mock-Bot
...You forget who you are
Amidst the chaos of this journey
You ignore your true purpose
Trying to chase your problems
You lose your identity
As you suck into the society's labels
Before you even r...
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Categories:
hard cash, identity, irony, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gin Trash
...See, forty bucks in cold, hard cash
can fill your trailer with gin trash.
And for growing fine tomatoes,
forty's pretty small potatoes.
The big box products like Black Cow
will truly set you bac...
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Categories:
hard cash, garden,
Form: Rhyme
A Happy Pug
...A happy pug adored as essential
had doting owners quite influential
But with the stock market crash
she was sold for hard cash
Now she’s forlorn and inconsequential
1/13/22...
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Categories:
hard cash, dog, humor,
Form: Limerick
Labyrinthia
...Her full name was Labyrinthia Pennyweight Babineaux, but her closest friends called her Libby. She was of blended French, German, and Native American heritage. Her Great Great Grandparents were said ...
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Categories:
hard cash, beauty, character,
Form: Prose Poetry
An Early Morning Visitor
...A stranger came knocking at my front door
Early in the morning, quarter to five,
Asked if I believed in helping the poor
Told him at five I was barely alive,
But if he was needing help to survive...
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Categories:
hard cash, anxiety, caregiving, food, giving,
Form: Dizain
Patrick Oflanagan
...Patrick O’Flanagan’s covert shenanigans
Make people ask where he gets to at night
There’s a perception that Patrick O’Flanagan
Visits a door with a glowing red light
What people don’t know abou...
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Categories:
hard cash, age, dance, humorous, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Darkness Reigns
...Darkness Reigns
The dark has settled and I am at my height
of delicious evil as I rage through the Earth this night.
A basement of torture in the East, where I relish the lash,
in the market of c...
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Categories:
hard cash, horror,
Form: Rhyme
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