My Indentured Dragon
My indentured dragon is the best kind of beast.
He helps me sixteen times a day at least.
He carries material, threads, my sewing machine too.
Without Chet-beefer, what would I do?
He is a handsome guy, all pink and pretty.
He tells fabulous jokes. He is incredibly witty.
He keeps my water jug refilled with vodka and juice.
I would feel
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Categories:
indentured, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Time Indentured
Walking the line,
each step unmeasured and long
Walking the line,
memories distant and gone
Walking the line,
time seemed forever to last
Walking the line,
the future indentured
—to the past
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2015 )
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Categories:
indentured, time,
Form: Rhyme
Indentured
Music is more slave to fashion
—than the written or spoken word
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
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Categories:
indentured, music, spoken word, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Indentured Logger- Swap Quatrain
Ten doggone years I've sawed your trees.
I quit. I'll saw my own darn z's.
I'm done with blood and sweat and tears;
I've sawed your trees ten doggone years.
Right out that door I'm marching on.
No use to look, 'cause I'll be gone.
I'm done with aches and blisters, for
I'm marching on, right out that door.
I'll never feel this
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Categories:
indentured, abuse, anger, bullying, farewell,
Form: Quatrain
Definition of Indentured Servant
people bound to payless work,
Once done they are set free.
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Categories:
indentured, on writing and words,
Form: I do not know?