Another 5 steps
...I'm so tired.
The machinery of my body feels like it's failing,
I'm grasping at the air praying there's something to hang onto,
I'm gritting my teeth and squinting my eyes in the struggle to see...
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Categories:
moneyless, abuse, dark, heartbreak, strength,
Form: Free verse
The Wolfman
...The old concoction, over a century ago since it was first brewed. It transformed a man into a blood-thirsty wolf-beast. Killed those that it hunted, and haunted by killers, like that of Bruce Willis....
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Categories:
moneyless, animal, horror,
Form: Narrative
Sensibility
...
Mirror Brave
Give me days
When it gets too much
Just get outside
Soak up some sun
Haunted by dreams of murder
Surrendering to
The champion of dreams
Sirens cramp the quiet sky
Watching ...
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Categories:
moneyless, death, dream, murder,
Form: Free verse
Moneyless
...homeless and bankrupt
his high-minded principle
bolstered his spirit....
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Categories:
moneyless, analogy, bereavement, home, identity,
Form: Haiku
Including But Not Limited To
...It is the cause of all acts of terrorism,
including but not limited to suicide bombings.
It is the cause of most crimes running rampant in all nations,
including but not limited to child exploitat...
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Categories:
moneyless, money,
Form: Rhyme
A Filling Hope
...Like an empty glass
Hope fills
among the mass
Hope fills the glass
Empty carts
broken Heart
Hope fills
Like a chuck hole
Concrete asphalt filled
Joy is spilled
Empty box
Toddler...
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Categories:
moneyless, analogy, hope,
Form: Free verse
On the Road
...“Collection Kaki and school bag, collection Kaki and school bag”
These are the words echoing from the woman hustling on the street side. Mindless people passing by glancing at her and listening to h...
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Categories:
moneyless, appreciation, blessing, brother, business,
Form: Narrative
Can Somebody Please Give This Uber **** Fuller a Lyft
...Can somebody please give this uber **** fuller a lyft?
alternately titled: jump starter for clunky, junky,
quirky, xyz mechanic wanted in tow tow -
chassis what I mean?)
As the proud graduated
...
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Categories:
moneyless, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Majhi
...His village
is
a plantation
of privations,
where
a variety of
sorrows grow.
Love
like corn
lives
within
a pale cover.
Pain
is buried
in the furrow
of misery.
Moneyless ...
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Categories:
moneyless, life, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Oye
...“OYE” (“HARMATTAN”)
[BY OHWOJEVWE ESE GANIYU]
When
On harmattan wings
Flapped iced
Into my oblongata cold
Into moneyless sadness
Of our Saussure’s paper
Locked in
Folic signified signif...
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Categories:
moneyless, time, weather,
Form: Blank verse
Jacqueline, My Mother
...
Jacqueline, my mother . . .
always with a smile and a twinkle,
with happiness, joyfulness and blissfulness.
Born poor, poverty-stricken, moneyless, penniless,
she left shantytown far behi...
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Categories:
moneyless, mothers day,
Form: Verse
Moneyless World
...Penny is in people's Mind,
Which makes them unkind.
A world bereft of penny,
Would be the genesis of bonhomie.
Then, the souls would do what they are supposed to do,
Stretch their hands to a...
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Categories:
moneyless, paradise, peace, philosophy, poems,
Form: Light Verse
The Timeline
...To be born and be a little miracle.
To be one and be in the limelight.
To be two and an angel.
To be three and a little princess.
To be four and be a big girl.
To be five and love your mumm...
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Categories:
moneyless, angst, dark, death, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Alive
...And we are left here
Like maggots—dirty, parentless…devastated
Always feeding on the gruel…the cruel
Fattening our lives in the moneyless bilk
Shocking like a bee sting, yet soft as silk
We a...
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Categories:
moneyless, angst, childhood, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
Not What It Seems
...Back-breaking work
Sweat in my eyes
Drop the hoe
Look at the castle
It's mighty towers
With magnificent flags
Fluttering in the slight breeze
The millionth time
I wonder what it's like
Being a prince...
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Categories:
moneyless, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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