BE SMART
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It’s okay to be ... me.
Exercising the brain. Setting it free.
Always seeking for more.
Never give up, never surrender
To be right all the time is a flaw
Just striving to be the best I ca...
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Categories:
one hundredth, books,
Form: Free verse
No Cents or Nickels
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One "cent" is one-hundredth of a dollar.
It is often mistaken for its British counterpart, the penny.
They are worth so little these days.
Now, a suggestion has been presented:
The Unit...
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Categories:
one hundredth, business, money,
Form: Free verse
Bittersweet Kiss
...We flirted and got closer throughout the day.
Not wanting to get caught, I pray in vain.
Our plans were just a matter of waiting.
Out in the parking lot, I stood patient.
He arrived casual and sm...
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Categories:
one hundredth, angst, betrayal, crush, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative
A Hunger Unfed
...from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,
adding a layer of stumbled steps, with a batter thickly made of le...
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Categories:
one hundredth, analogy,
Form: Free verse
If I Were Your Love
...Three-hundred milligrams
Approximately one-hundredth of a fluid ounce
Three-hundred milligrams of water a day, I’d die
Three-hundred milligrams of caffeine after three
I find myself staying up al...
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Categories:
one hundredth, addiction, anxiety, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Summer Going Into the Fifth Grade
...Up on our old tar roof, Friday night, I watched football
the high school was about a mile from my house.
You could always hear it at night.
I could see everything and nothing at the same time ...
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Categories:
one hundredth, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Hull Cenotaph, Remembrance Sunday, 2018
...The Guildhall clock chimes
Eleven times this special day,
A great silence descends as
The two minutes tick away.
On parade at the Cenotaph,
An old man among old men
(Where did the years go for
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Categories:
one hundredth, anniversary, emotions, patriotic, remembrance
Form: Rhyme
A Fisherman's Wish
...In an isolated island where most people are fishermen, life was so hard. One morning near the shore, a genie from a floating lamp appeared before a hundred fishermen and asked each one of them for a...
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Categories:
one hundredth, dream, fantasy, health,
Form: Prose
She Said I Will Be Back In a Jiffy
...she said i will be back in a jiffy
i said, dear, that is one-one hundredth
of a second
which is longer than a nanosecond
but i know your leagues
which are never lingering in parsecs
that adorab...
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Categories:
one hundredth, devotion,
Form: Romanticism
Quest
...for her sister's one hundredth birthday
a new sweater purchase from a store blocks away
a goal coveted, though for the aged, no such thing
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Categories:
one hundredth, age, dedication, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse
Monoku Monday - Jan 2021
..."2020 Hindsight Collaboration" Posted 4 Jan 2021
new year's resolutions things that go in one year and out the other
I resolve to avoid all fatty and unhealthy... ...
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Categories:
one hundredth, new year,
Form: Monoku
Halloween Surprise
...He (she) was a surreal sight rocking in a huge red chair
beside the old house nearby. The bright orange hair,
painted face, polka dot clown suit, and grinning lips
were ludicrous. I was unnerved b...
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Categories:
one hundredth, halloween,
Form: Verse
Captain Tom
...Captain Tom
By Jan Beaumont ©
He was somebody we'd never heard of
Just a man quietly living his life
But a man who'd seen things that he shouldn't
Like battle and horror and strife.
He was...
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Categories:
one hundredth, celebrity, england, inspiration, soldier,
Form: Light Verse
Trouble On the Bridge
...Twice I read a note my wife left for me
"Be home by four-thirty, love you" - she wrote
Twice I read a note my wife left for me
My wife said she loves me, she wrote a note
Yesterday was my o...
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Categories:
one hundredth, sick,
Form: Sonnet
For My Dad On His One Hundredth Birthday
...I feel you hovering around me,
your presence, your spirit,
a feeling, like fingertips
lightly grazing the skin.
Ten years have passed
since you shook off
the coils of this world.
Your pr...
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Categories:
one hundredth, blessing, dad, father son,
Form: Free verse
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