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On A Short Leash Poems - Poems about On A Short Leash

As an underdog given a short leash on life
...As an underdog given a short leash on life alternately titled give one targeted scapegoat a break, an unquenchable thirst for moolah before I wake from nightmare of computer hackers. I tread......

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Categories: on a short leash, adventure, age, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
ComeHoming - Matthew 15:4
...You’re an *******. Words muttered out of context, out of line. A rage-shadowed truth, but with such unexpected forthrightness, it missed its mark, serving only to deepen our divide. Home is no ......

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Categories: on a short leash, anger, anxiety, child, childhood,
Form: Free verse



These Mortal Parts
...I'm not much attached to this body, it feels like it's on a short leash while the brain drags it around like a reluctant old dog. Long cantankerous years have pummeled it into a shape it neve......

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Categories: on a short leash, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Bill of Duties, Part Ii
......You have a right to trial by jury, and a presumption of your innocence, you have a duty to respect other’s rights, not commit crimes against women and men. To surrender if you’re done the deed......

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Categories: on a short leash, america, freedom, how i
Form: Rhyme
Incorrigible Recalcitrant Doppelganger Mine
...Incorrigible Recalcitrant - Doppelganger (mine) Ala Goofus and Gallant highlights my diametrically divergent alter egos always the reserved obedient docile boy afeared to stray outside nar......

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Categories: on a short leash, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Donald Trump and the Media
...They watch him like a Broad-wing Hawk In all his comes and goes He invades their every thought Bugs them to the bone He delights in the slip and slide Like a greased pig in their grasp Think......

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Categories: on a short leash, america, crazy, culture,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Please Keep Your Little Ones On a Short Leash
...No more babies to make. We're all done my wife says. Get the scissors. We have 3 of our own All under 5, 4 total. Why look so nostalgic towards babies Tinier than my 11 month old? The kid's ......

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Categories: on a short leash, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Diaper Rash
...DIAPER RASH They took me out again on a short leash bag ready just in case. I had been trained not to go in the house, to be subservient to my masters, repeat only what I’d been tau......

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Categories: on a short leash, education, high school, society,
Form: Free verse
Blessing In Disguise
...So thankful to know the love of my sweet little boy He's certainly nothing short of a miraculous bundle of joy Like his sister, he's such a beautiful gift from above He fills my heart with a tr......

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Categories: on a short leash, blessing, child, love, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Sick Love Sick
... He held on to your frail love with a velvet iron fist Scarlet finger imprints ... bruised bracelet on your wrist showed you the depression bends of his obsessive love How deep, how s......

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Categories: on a short leash, abuse, jealousy, pain, sick,
Form: Free verse
Good Bad Cop
... I'm the good bad cop, I'm good at being bad My partner is the bad good cop, he's bad at being good We make a good team, we put a scare into the bad guys Both of us love reading them their ......

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Categories: on a short leash, jobs, philosophy, psychological, word
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
...I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose. My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the sanctum s......

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Categories: on a short leash, humor,
Form: Prose
Pimpin' Out My Hoes
...I collect the money each and every night Occasionally check with the Johns to ensure the service was alright A smack or punch in the face keeps them in line I keep a short leash on them, they m......

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Categories: on a short leash, funny, me, night, day,
Form: ABC
Just Another Blockparty Hoodrat....
...All the big dogs out barkin' their song older cats strollin' just playin' along hipsters out mellowin' chill for the day jipsters shout yellin' pronouncin' their trade the young whelps sit curbsi......

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Categories: on a short leash, people, places, urban, life,
Form: Free verse
Keeping You
...In my eyes You are the only prize of the flesh ive ever wanted So warm And wanton Yet numb until you’ve heard my voice A soft sound spilling from my throat Brings color to your cheeks W......

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Categories: on a short leash, love, passion, sad,
Form: Free verse

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