Housed Poems

Ha ha ha gotcha!

...Ha...ha...ha... gotcha!

The imagined intimated response
linkedin to a swindler's
imagined thought bubble
silently spouting you ain't nothing
but a pluperfect sucker...
rendered penniless suff...
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Categories: housed, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEarthly demise

...nature to human
exploring relationships  -
human to nature 

Pastoral
Spring arrives on queue
Verdant colours warm the soul –
Wonders of nature

Pictures
Turner et al pain...
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Categories: housed, earth, humanity, nature, world,
Form: Haiku


Yugoslavia

...Yugoslavia

My first wife and I went on holiday
55 years ago, in Yugoslavia
The tourist industry was struggling
to find its feet, we stayed in a freshly
painted barracks, which caused some
jok...
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Categories: housed, anti bullying, birthday, care,
Form: ABC

Premium Member9 DEAD BODIES BURNED ALIVE BY GARGANO LAYING IN THE HALLS

...THE BODIES REMAINED IN THE HALLS DUE TO THE SMALL EXAM ROOMS NO DOCTOR COULD WORK IN SUCH A SMALL SPACE NO DOCTOR WOULD SQUEEZE A CROWD INTO A TINY ROOM IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN CIRO GARGANO DECIDED TO SLA...
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Categories: housed, allah,
Form: Naat

Bigger Battles

...On a Carnival Night
Maybe I mean to smoke 
might not style and steams 
legs of metal and four bearded
heart pumps blood and builds me 
source code to see stomping grounds
stuff pulls me to an e...
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Categories: housed, abuse, addiction, age, anger,
Form: Free verse


Deliver me - Isaiah 55

...He wasn’t thirsty nor did he yearn for food 
For he had already found nourishment in Your words

He didn’t spend money on things that did not satisfy
But he clothed the naked
Housed the homeless...
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Categories: housed, anger, bible, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS ANDREW HENRY OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE

...I CONTACTED SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND 2003 ANDREW JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY BREAKING INTO MY HOME SEARCHING FOR IDENTITIES IN MY FAMILIES OBITUARIES ARRIVING WITH GUNMAN ANDREW HENRY TO END MY LIFE ...
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Categories: housed, allah,
Form: Naat

Though an atheist

...Though an atheist..
please oh lord brace and fix me with monetary salvation

After umpteen times being swindled
reducing me to abject poverty
psyche of mine
broke into a bajillion little pieces...
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Categories: housed, absence, abuse, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse

Chinese Arsenal

...the Voice of a Shadowed Engineer

They speak of missiles,
as if war is still waged with fire.
But in the hush of midnight laboratories,
beneath the quartz veins of the Tianshan mountains,
we bu...
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Categories: housed, betrayal, conflict, crush, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAccentuate And Celebrate

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As we approach the celebration
of our country's founding, one
could view the glass as half empty
Or half full.  Or one could complain
about how far we have yet to go as a nation;
Or be divid...
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Categories: housed, appreciation, family,
Form: Narrative

Future Archaeology

...You just will not believe what we
found in the desert sands,
a city lost a thousand years
out in the western lands!
I led the dig that found the place,
and I’ve got to tell you,
what we’ve dug ...
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Categories: housed, city, confusion, fun, future,
Form: Rhyme

As an underdog given a short leash on life

...As an underdog given a short leash on life

alternately titled give one targeted scapegoat a break,
an unquenchable thirst for moolah before I wake
from nightmare of computer hackers. 

I tread...
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Categories: housed, adventure, age, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse

endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me

...endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me...

like the infinite vista
upon the midwestern plain
farther than the eyes of mine
(an ascetic and copacetic
shortsighted father of tw...
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Categories: housed, absence, adventure, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

A Mother's Love

...When a mothers love is supposed to be your first, 
It makes it all hurt a little bit worse. 

For you never taught me what love was, 
Only reminding me that it was all because, 

It’s hard to g...
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Categories: housed, betrayal, childhood, daughter, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Town

...Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town
In my little town
“My Little Town” by Paul Simon



My Town
I walk the streets of m...
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Categories: housed, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

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