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richer or poorer
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cs parker
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absence, abuse, america, money,
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The quick and easy test to determine if someone close to you is or is not a racist
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Word Awl
| Free verse |
money, discrimination, giggle, irony, jesus,
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GREED THE GAME
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Line Gauthier
| Free verse |
abuse, bullying, games, money,
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nothing but air
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colin heavingham
| ABC |
money,
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The Shop Window
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Bernard Chan
| Senryu |
clothes, desire, money, poverty,
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Round 1 New York won
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Brett Somers
| Free verse |
appreciation, art, city, money,
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This Poor Manz Pipe Dream
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matthew harris
| Imagism |
money, adventure, dream, fate, happiness,
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Haiku-Rolling in the Dough
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Winged Warrior
| Haiku |
appreciation, food, money,
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Shoo-Wee, Whats That Smell
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Word Awl
| Monoku |
america, fairy, money,
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The Money Pot
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ilene bauer
| Rhyme |
money,
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THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS
by Kim Rodrigues
THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS
The grave he dug, the monument he built.
No one saw the single coin that died so fast.
No time for a blessing,...
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money,
NRIs Arrive on November 16th
by Caren Krutsinger
NRIs (Non-reading incorrigibles) always start their public school careers not in August or September, but rather on November 16th, because November 15th is the day...
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money, political, school,
Swiss Miss
by Robert Pettit
You are something to behold as I hold you in my hand.
Made of quality gold, you come from Switzerland.
With a value of twenty francs, you...
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money,
Let's Talk about Money
by Michelle Faulkner
Let's talk about money, honey
That sour flower, that power to devour
The corrupt disruption of consumption
Let's face the disgrace of that gilded tower
Let's concede when greed...
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addiction, corruption, depression, money,
Divorce
by Nicholas Beddoo
Well honor, you see
A million dollar gift all to me
For if I was married my conscious would say
I'd have to give it all away...
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money,
The Big Game
by Gershon Wolf
The Big Game
Always the same
Comes up lame
Who's to blame?
Pundits declaim
Whisper...
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money, sports,
The Devil's In The Marketing
by Gail Foster
Psst wanna buy a pretty thing
The spiv hid in the shadows said
(The devil's in the marketing)
Psst wanna buy a pretty thing
The silver moon slid shivering
Along...
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Triolet |
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art, dark, humor, money,
Goodbye
by Bud Cee
Have you ever seen so much weed
That you held your breathe
Have you ever seen a bro with nothing
Grinding and now he's making money
Partying and getting...
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Categories:
money, betrayal, death of a
The Price
by unfamiliar flower
They say "stay in school kids!"
Wow!
How easy it is just to attend class
after class and class.
They went to school,
Not each one of them but most...
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children, corruption, money, people,
At Work
by W.A. CHOLT
At Work
Five days a week
The same old routine,
Going through the motions
For a paycheck.
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Tanka |
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money, work,
How Sweet It Is--Well, Was
by Janice Canerdy
The greatest windfall payday of my life,
bar none, was when I won the lottery.
My l00 grand would help me reach my dreams
for years to come....
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money, travel, work,
Money's Up
by Rich Rogers
If you want the big check,
Got to be willing to put in the work.
Lift those weights strive to be great,
All you need is apply a...
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dedication, devotion, future, money,
money versus love
by robin davis
Money isn't everything
O.K. A smile it might bring
to a child or a teen
But as an adult I've seen
It can just bring misery
I would...
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feelings, happiness, love, money,
Pathway of Doom
by Billy TheKidster
Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism.
What do all of these "isms" have in common?
All are dictated by a monetary system,
and wherever there is money, you will find...
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money,
Speaking Ill of the Dead
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Dishonorable plastic discharge
gouge a crater debt
of predatory lending regret
Dead faces on printed paper
exercise still
their executive will
Oppressive weight
from the mausoleum stacks
of dollar bills
Folded temptation —...
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corruption, money, perspective, truth,
GO IN THE CELLAR AND BRING UP THE JAM
by Allan Terry
1/4 C OF BRONW SUGAR
1/4 C HONEY
1/4 C SWEET CHILI PASTE
1/4 C CHOPPED CANDIED GINGER
3 TABLESPOONS OF SWEET WINE
1 TABLESPOON OF ONION POWDER
1 TABLESPOON...
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money, encouraging, food, for her,
Mindset
by Trevor McLeod
Each mindset from an income bracket
a blinding point of view.
Where others thoughts are never known
beyond what's paid to you.
Your neighbourhood for thinking thoughts
where commmon ceivlan's...
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Quatrain |
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analogy, money,
Fiduciary Fiasco
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Now who entrusted an ugly octopus
with the pretty plaid pocketbook?
An eight arm six-finger crook
crawling up the vault wall
is such a dirty, filthy lucre look
Those pretty...
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Burlesque |
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Categories:
identity, money, mystery, words,
How Can I Compensate
by matthew harris
How Can I Compensate...?
Just between myself,
and cosmic force
this good fella agreed
to dedicate, postulate,
...
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money, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Dear Donald
by Gerald Dillenbeck
The U.S. domestic subset
of our internationally interdependent economy
is not so much about when it is best for the haves
and when it used to be worse...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
money, bullying, environment, health, humor,