MASTERMINDS
Freedom comes with a cause
A price to pay
Only the brave pay dearly
Due to the danger of suffering
Even when you're doing your best
It seems like you've done nothing
Due to denials and oppression from opposition.
To be a mastermind
You must master your mind
Knowing what you're made for or of
Then surrounding yourself with masters
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Categories:
pay up, africa, children, community, courage,
Form: Didactic
ROOM FOR RENT
Too small,
for two of us.
Wanting to run away,
I was reluctant to stay here.
Our pay checks did not reach far in those days,
I had a place to rest my head.
Needed more rent money,
please rain dollars.
Too small.
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Categories:
pay up, life, marriage, me, money,
Form: Rictameter
I can't pay my life
I can’t pay my life
No attention. How to pay attention?
A self-driven person. A narcissistic
What can I do? Can’t take care of
On my life. He is closed. A desire
I don’t know him. Maybe an alien
Stranger. My life. Different person
Driving me. I can’t control. The Will
My will. My wished life. My desire
I don’t pay with my life.
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Categories:
pay up, fate, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Crime Does Pay
A man who went to jail
for stealing, told the judge:
“Your Honor, I hold no grudge:
with shelter, food, and clothing,
steady work, no debts or owing,
a four year college education,
health and dental care,
and weekend recreation,
only a fool would contradict
a jury’s so generous verdict.
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Categories:
pay up, humor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
THOSE WE LOVE
Those we love don’t go away
They walk beside us every day
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Categories:
pay up, 5th grade, love,
Form: Rhyme
Get Thee Behind Me
Speak of the devil incarnate
to give the devil his due
not to play devil's advocate
tho' devil-may-care
the devil is in the details
and while we're there
to state so now would be opportune
he who sups devil's food cake
or devilled eggs with the devil
should have a very long spoon
but if we don't the devil you say
better the silver-tongued devil you
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Categories:
pay up, character, fun, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Immigrant Song
So you can define a tree
From a forest if its near
But I cannot make you see
And my words you cannot hear
You destroyed a lilac grove
You’re a beast with no remorse
I don’t share your need to rove
You’re the effect with no cause
Now the Earth is yours forever
Make it flat, cut off the trees
Get your desert
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Categories:
pay up, feelings, political, tree, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Price I'd Pay
Sometimes I’m angry you left. That you gave up. That you weren’t strong enough to stay. The bitterness creeps in quietly, like a shadow I didn’t invite. But then I stop—because who am I to measure a pain I never lived? I never stood at the edge of whatever storm made jumping feel safer than
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Categories:
pay up, anxiety, longing, loss, relationship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Categories:
pay up, evil, gothic,
Form: Free verse
When you pay rent of Hell
When you pay rent of hell a register appears in your house
A rent book and black pen
Your actions essence turned into knots that appear as black ropes
Your thoughts noted in a book and weighted on the scales of the register.
Very dark in your eyes with visions of hell.
To break these knots, you need golden
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Categories:
pay up, gothic, horror, magic,
Form: Free verse
My Children and Grandchildren Don't Foolishly Follow People, Because They Will Pay
When problems come, we want to blame God first!
But the truth of it all is your actions put you under a curse.
The Bible says when you obey God, all will go right.
And when you do not, you'll struggle most of your life!
Cursed are all creatures who choose to disobey.
Everything in the bible, written to show
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Categories:
pay up, 12th grade, abuse, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
How can I get pay Dad
Super Hero Boy dressed the part every day
School? No, he argued. No how, no way!
I am saving the birds, butterflies and trees.
You can do that later, and be sure and use please.
Super Hero Boy knew school was a waste of his time.
It was boring and same-oh-same-oh and they did not pay him a dime
I am
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Categories:
pay up, school,
Form: Rhyme
Which Way Have to Pay Horn Haiku
Which Way Have to Pay
Horn Haiku
would be on display
wonder how much and which way
we will have to pay
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Categories:
pay up, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Joy
You wouldn't know joy
if it crawled up
and laid in your lap.
It is right in front of
you,
but you'll never know.
Just pay attention,
and it'll show.
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Categories:
pay up, 7th grade, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
hard to believe he played a cowboy called the good
then fought crime and made the bad guys pay
and said go ahead and make my day
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Categories:
pay up, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
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