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Living Hand To Mouth
Living Hand To Mouth Poems - Poems about Living Hand To Mouth
his December 17th 2024
...This December 17th, 2024... alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught with slim pickings and yours truly felt utterly miserable th......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
absence, america, angst, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Where art thou unknown spellcaster
...Where art thou unknown spellcaster? If in fact such a female and/or male exists an insufferable existence clamors for surcease against riptide of ineradicable anguish. Living hand to mouth f......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Red Hot Chili Pepper Poker Face
...Red hot chili pepper poker face... Born that way angry antithetical mailer daemon when... all of Christendom bows their collective talking heads in supplication, a temporary truce and reprie......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Momma Said
...Land sakes alive what you been into child. The sun is hot but the wind is mild. My nose itches, Someone’s coming with a hole in their britches. Haven’t seen you in a coon’s age. A hooting and......
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mp and the Gardener
...The MP and the Gardener She works for an M.P. who claims expenses Gardener cuts grass, digs ponds and mends fences The MP gets much more than he really needs The gardener digs a hole lovingly p......
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Dave Cox
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Ballad
Back In Time
...I used to hear the shouting on my landing late at night smell the stench of trash and poverty twas not a pretty sight I used to hear kid's mothers as they called them in for tea women who wore ......
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Julie Achilles
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
abuse, childhood, conflict, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Congratulations Its a Boy
...Hi there new born baby, welcome to your life, Off to work tomorrow, mother’s got no choice, Your at the teats, sister’s slung around her back, Ten hours in the field, gathering god knows what, Sh......
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David Kavanagh
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
discrimination, education, humanity, people,
Form:
I do not know?
Rags To Threadbare Tatters
...Rags To Threadbare Tatters... (a true “FAKE” story how Mein Kampf - chill as hoary frost – and totaling lacking glory.) A woeful disgraceful cautionary tale stitched from the barest thre......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
11th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Lyric
Such a Cliche
...I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise Drinking like a fish, kicking the bucket a fine kettle of fish, beyond the pale. A fish o......
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John Beam
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
funny, humor, irony, language,
Form:
Free verse
The Ballad of Nelly and Me
...Rolled about a bit I’d say Since Nell and I first met Denver down to Old Fort Lauderdale Flatland fever hit one day and Drowning in our sweat Mountains pulled us up a dusty trail Cut down t......
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Warren Dickman
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
cute love, friendship, happiness,
Form:
Ballad
Rodeoman Is Here For Contest
...Saying your a rodeo rider Makes it sound so much fun But living hand to mouth I assure you isnt fun at all Make sure your timid horse Is well fed and warm Your second in this pecking order Keeping w......
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Seren Roberts
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
cowboy-western, horse, journey,
Form:
Free verse
The Transplant Relationship
...driven from the boonies, from the sticks, from the countryside & into the heart of the cities where the pulse thumps against the brain soothing the heart simultaneously with the guaranteed promise o......
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Andrew Delapruch
Categories:
living hand to mouth,
life, heart, water, city,
Form:
Free verse