Priced Out
How will you ever
afford yourself
the cost
beyond your means
How will you pay
the price of longing
financing
your dreams
How will you leverage
the cost of hope
interest rates
on fire
How will you love
your heart
in debt
— bankrupting desire
(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)
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Categories:
priced, love,
Form: Rhyme
Passion Priced Love Merged In the Lord-
the price of passion
null and void if it hasn’t
been merged in the Lord
2/12/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
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Categories:
priced, analogy, appreciation, inspirational, love,
Form: Haiku
Half Priced Hearts
Half Price Hearts
Half price candy in fancy boxes
Shaped like hearts
Sitting on store shelves
Wondering why they weren’t given
To someone’s sweetheart
Do they feel alone?
Were they abandoned?
Like the many broken hearted lovers
That this day celebrates
Left alone wondering why
How did they end up on the unwanted shelf?
Alone and abandoned
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Categories:
priced, heart, valentines day,
Form: Free verse
Pre-Priced Package
See that shiny package, on the upper row
Its base cardboard shelf mate, is not the way to go
There must be embossed letters, of metallic sheen
And it must be shrink wrapped, so it's always clean
Add a few more staples, and a cute twist tie
You know it should be fancy, if I'm going to buy
Prominent the
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Categories:
priced, business, culture, environment, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Free Cee Keep Over Priced In Christmas
P OVER-PRICED IN CHRISTMAS
To hell with Hallmark and their bourgeois cards of greeting
Sent to wives from guilty husbands who are always cheating
Or to that teenage blonde who wiggles for older men only
Sent from a young teenage boy who she leaves lying lonely
To hell with Macy’s and their senile Santa in a cheap suit
To hell with
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Categories:
priced, angst, christmas, christmas, teenage,
Form: Quatrain
American Live's A'Wasted, Priced of Oil, We'Ve Tasted
A star-lit night,while out on patrol...If
the enemy is ever sighted,it's beyond my
control.Land mines and IED's blow up metal
boxes on wheels...American live's,of this
un-Godly politically oil inspired war of
Iraq,takes as steals.An American flag waves
in the wind and flies overhead...Is Arab
oil the price we pay for our very own dead?
02-27-2006'.
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Categories:
priced, passion, sad, social,
Form: I do not know?
Mid-Priced Coffee, Mid-Priced Life
i doubt i could be that girl,
smiling on the cover,
with crooked teeth and khakis.
shes never tasted cum,
or smoked a joint before christmas dinner.
because her parents have money,
thats why she lies on a manicured lawn.
thats why she needs to work.
to be a pharmasist.
a teacher.
another drone in morning traffic,
sipping midpriced coffee
and talking on a motorola.
living a
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Categories:
priced, life, people, social,
Form: Free verse