If you go to the store
Most places say to pay by card
Because the government is
Trying to do away with cash
And paper, think about it
If one day something happens
To the satellites, how will you be able to
Get your money, pay your bills
Buy food, just survive because
It would shut the whole country down
So how would you live
Planting a seed
Blooming courage indeed
Looking up to the sky
Not considering, time to die
Knowing heavens are there
Protection from the crows who scare
Reading books filled with studies
Asking, how much money?
Trusting powers that be
Truth will see
Sun shining bright
An illuminating sight
When break time arrives
Reason to sigh
Showing a path
Towards the bath
Sweat well spent
Cultivating investment
Heat saying goodbye
Autumn leaves fly
Seasoned to perfection
Ready for collection
Harvest pay received
Graciously, I believe
Joyful thanks
Leaving the bank
No longer fearful and blue
Cash in hand is cool
Barreling pork
Work
Done
Time for fun
Spending
Since holiday season is pending
Intimidation threats are gone
Since courageous honesty is the new dawn
Pain learning to smile.
As it has all the while.
Picking I yourself up even when you don't want to.
True.
Time never healed you.
Pain doesn't make you strong.
That's wrong.
No, time doesn't heal.
It can't feel.
Another layer to peel.
Alone in a crowd.
Alone, don't say it to loud.
Strength to walk.
Words that you talk.
So many people around.
Plenty of love to be found.
But I see.
Just not for me.
Part of being free.
Every day is today.
The price you pay .
They say.
Hearts mend.
Will's bend
Souls live forever.
Love, never
Give me strength today.
Keep going my own way.
Nothing changes.
Just rearranges.
Time.
Rhyme.
Days go by .
Why bother to cry.
All the same.
Myself to blame.
So lame.
Excuse me I’m not going to pay
For actions taken not by me
And for the words I didn’t say
I never pay a slightest fee
You talk of moral obligation
Known as responsibility
Stripped-down generalization
Can work for you, but not for me
As time goes by, established facts
All of a sudden get revised
The context changes, and it lacks
The prior truth, cause it tells lies
Most folks are prone to something new
They take the current truth for gold
Excuse me for the different view
I’m not that young, yet not that old.
diner waitress does not know
her brief touch and smile ...
stopped me from ending
True love comes with a price
some of the things that
seem too good to be true aren’t
be honest next time
The night knows all the lovers dreams
searching for a sign from all the stars,
just to express their love to you.
My silly heart showed all it’s scars.
And you pretending not to care,
while your face betraying how you feel.
My heart now begging to be loved,
just to show you it does not conceal.
They came, put up the barriers
The village will be urbanized
The glass and cement area
They’ll set before our eyes
A block of shoe-box houses
More cruel teens around
One day your shirts and trousers
You'll find down on the ground
Must order electronic lock
Put on the fence a wire net
And get yourself a watchdog
In case you haven’t got it yet
Here comes the urban good
The village fears come true
Pay more for meds and food
Get less, and claim “I knew!”
A young musician who played the blues
Was told he had to pay his dues
So he went to a synagogue with his pay
And thought that he could pay that way.
The rabbi said “you silly fool
What you’re doing isn’t cool
Instead of paying Jews
You’re supposed to pay your dues”.
The young musician was quite apologetic
As the rabbi bordered on the apoplectic
Never again will he make this mistake
Or was it all just a piss-take?
the old lady had a haggardly look, she was wrinkled now
her face was almost as wrinkled as her neck and her hands
her crow was older too, this would probably be his last winter
they were ready to “go”, they had said their goodbyes
she was tired of being here; her friends had all gone before her
her days were same-oh, same-oh, life was not lively or fun
Sam, her crow, was her only friend.
Every night she prayed that she would go before Sam
Then she realized that would leave Sam without food or water.
So maybe they should go together.
The week before Halloween she was asked to dress as a witch.
We will pay you to sit in a rocking chair and be scary.
She wondered if she would like that.
She had not been especially fond of children.
But the money was good.
She decided to do it if Sam could come too.
The old witch and Sam were the “hit” of the haunted porch.
That was ten years ago; they are still going strong.
Earning money every year, having a terrific time doing it.
This little job turned their worlds around.
His currency was empty promises.
He doled them out like no tomorrow.
Meanwhile mountain of debt accrued.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
There is a serious
Price to pay when
Take something by
Force because it
Does not belong to
YOU
Gilded cage feeding the illusion.
Crowned princess story but at what cost.
Happiness not in the equation.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
I would pay two hundred dollars for this piece of art
Because I never pay more than that, due to one fact
I am an artist, who has over sixteen hundred paintings of my own
This one is prettily painted, so she would earn my top dollar
which is always and forever two hundred dollars.
Because I can duplicate almost any painting
Unless it is a landscape, which I have no desire to paint
I have never liked them, never will; do not want them around
Weirdly enough, my mother’s paintings of choice were all landscapes.
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