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Redneck Family Reunion
Every couple 'a years or so 
Our family reunites
It takes a couple 'a years or so
To recover from the fights

A family like our'n
Doesn't party like most do
Ours gets a little out of hand
That's why we...

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Categories: runts, america, crazy, fishing, funny, humor, music, song,
Form: Rhyme



Checkmate
Pawn
You've been a peon, lowly pawn your whole life
Never amounted to much,
nothing much ever went right
Grew up dirt piss poor,
never knew the reason why
you were put on this earth for
So you start cyber chasing every...

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Categories: runts, allegory, allusion, life, metaphor, truth,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member How Margie Got Her 'Benji'
"You're right," I told the couple who'd dropped in to buy a 'friend' to entertain their daughter, who had just turned 5 years old,
"Tiny ones like that one there can pass for newly-borns...and runts, in...

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Categories: runts, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Second {resubmit}
I once heard and had myself a taste
The emptiness of hell is as vast as space
I entered the vortex trying to find
How to drive the demons from my mind
Like a snake I learned to shed...

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Categories: runts, lifeme, blue, evil, me, rose,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Halloween
Christmas has it's candy canes and chocolate Santa Claus doll
Easter with it's Peeps and jelly bird eggs can get a little dull
But do you recall the greatest candy Holiday of all...

Through the dark of night...

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Categories: runts, candy, halloween, kid,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The True Wonder Bread
Funny the things that stick with you
like gum beneath the table
as the years go by.
My brains goes as far back as three solar circuits;
big bro put the Wonder bread in the microwave
(package and all) ---...

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Categories: runts, analogy, angst, childhood, confusion, future, growing up,
Form: Free verse
And So It Begins
And so it begins … my crew will over treat themselves to ample
food for I have just stuffed our pantry grandly-full again:

No one will know why the stocked sweets meant to last nearly 
a week...

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Categories: runts, anxiety, candy, chocolate, conflict, family, food, silly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Political Science
Politics are the province of people in power,
Who eschew with all their might,
Our money and fear in which we cower,
Under their militant and watchful sight.

See the skies and you'll see the spies,
Who spray poisons in...

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Categories: runts, political,
Form: Rhyme
Another Day Another Jovian Dollar
ANOTHER    DAY   ANOTHER   JOVIAN  *  DOLLAR

Strolled down to the café to meet the guys,
The braves  as  we call ourselves in vain.
Get  a breath...

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Categories: runts, adventureearth, red, planet,
Form: Quatrain
Misfortune of War

They were wavy heart told,
there was a silver star-shaped pot of gold
at the end of the hellstorm rainbow

This was the time-honored 
private talk 
to the latest crop 
of pawn fodder privates

Battlefield grunts on the frontline
A...

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Categories: runts, allegory, death, perspective, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rickity Ragity
Rickity Ragity  by James Edward Lee Sr.
 
Rickity risked
rags while rolling rolls
role playing rogues
rose roused rubbing
rubbish right handed
ricochet retained objective

Rickity Ragity is his full name
He is a rabbit who ain't ashamed
Sewing and gambling is...

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Categories: runts, poetry, rap,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wee People
What's fair and right we oft dismiss
While clinging to our prejudice.
But biggest biases of all
Are aimed at us, the short and small.

What's tall or towers people praise,
But opposites get no bouquets.
Short applicants are shown the...

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Categories: runts, discrimination, growth, humor, hurt, image, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Damsel Causing Distress
DAMSEL CAUSING DISTRESS


The knight errant sent for me, but I’ve gone missing
For three days now, while he’s composed a ditty:
In the tide of feminism I still haven’t given up kissing
Being what is termed fatalistically pretty...

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Categories: runts, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Garden of Hope
The last place to find what you want!!
The Garden of Action is where you must hunt.
Hoping is not powerful, and it's made for runts.
You will discover nothing at all brilliant.


In the Garden of Action is...

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Categories: runts, encouraging, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Do We Look Up To This Bully
The little cats all look up to the terrible lion.
If they do not pay homage, he may eat them.
He gobbles the weakest runts and the old ones up in big bites.
Letting them know what he...

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Categories: runts, 4th grade, 5th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs