Thirteen Dollars
...We scrounged up
Every penny we could
The night the policemen took you.
We had thirteen dollars
For your five hundred dollar bail....
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Categories:
scrounged, dad, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
We Owe It To Our Doctors
...We owe it to our doctors
We owe it to our doctors…
The ones who took it to be part of Sun Pharma’s greater mission;
To prevent disease rather cure
Cure and control if that happens at ...
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Categories:
scrounged, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The Bandits Rendezvous
...The Bandits Rendezvous
By Franklin Price
9/1/2019
Once upon, a Far East time, in nineteen sixty eight
The GEEIA squad made history on a non-remembered date
The plan had come together to build ...
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Categories:
scrounged, military, war,
Form: Couplet
Floppers Propped By Whopper Croppers
...Once the Sinis floppers' nerves acted up in bunches,
Scandinavians had no way to head off sucker punches.
Sacks of scamming slapstick, slap bass,
and farcefest, thick and fast, came to pass.
Not...
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Categories:
scrounged, international,
Form: Rhyme
Singularity
...ZAP
POW
Intrinsic
Inside news beyond
Hopes dashed
No pieces left
For times elbow
Holds no crutch
Singularity
ZIP
BAM
Congruent
Feelings enmeshed
S...
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Categories:
scrounged, happiness, hope, life, lost,
Form: Free verse
A Match-Stick
...The Match-Stick
The patent potential of a match-stick
I saw seething ravagely through the farmland
Crawling conflagration all alike
Beholding the hapless and helpless mind
The power of a match...
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Categories:
scrounged,
Form: Free verse
Dry Your Tears
...With a ragged bag and a sack, I am leaving you to chase a dream…
Dry your tears, my dear; no more wail. No more songs of grief,
No more tired bones and tired soul. Just dry your tears.
How mother die...
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Categories:
scrounged, abuse, death, dream, father
Form: Epic
Confessions So True
...The trolls went on vacation last week, they were tired of so much sun.
They went north for a touch of snow, you know, to have a little fun.
Now here we sat, all by ourselves, without a thing, we ne...
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Categories:
scrounged, family, fantasy, funny, happy,
Form: Light Verse
Clean
...Dark were my days when I hunkered down
in my bunker behind the shades
Dim are my memories in my racing mind
to where happiness slowly fades
Dull were my senses in my apartment cocoon
were I scro...
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Categories:
scrounged, hope, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Phillip and Red
...Average intelligence is difficult to know
with running buffoons thinking they are more
in tight skinned pants. The sole lagger
in basketball shorts is trying to keep up with them,
the wind pushi...
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Categories:
scrounged, social, teen,
Form: Free verse
1hundred6
...1Hundred6
1Hundred6
CharlaXFabels
Easter2
Christ Crucified.
The Cross
They took him from the crowd apart and nailed HIM both hands and feet unto the
instrument of tor...
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Categories:
scrounged, adventure, devotion, faith, father,
Form: Prose Poetry
Aftermath
...mom loved her china.
her collection grew by the year
and time upon time
i found myself looking upon it.
now there was bare wall
where the proud plates once hung
and an almost-fog covered my v...
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Categories:
scrounged, family, father, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse
Eye Saw
...EYE SAW
eye saw a man minding someone elses business eye saw him homeless
asking me why do you ask me that he had a pack of bedrolled up and dissed me
eye saw a starving artiste showing a lady o...
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Categories:
scrounged, imagination, introspection, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Nervous Wrecked
...Nervous Wrecked
Author Message
Admin
Admin
Age : 53
Joined : 13 Jun 2007
Posts : 650
Subject: Nervous Wrecked Today at 11:02
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Categories:
scrounged, natural disasters, places, urban,
Form: Free verse
Cheph111chapterthree:
...Cheph111ChapterThree:
Cheph111ChapterThree:
IN the desert with Stokker.
We stayed five days with no food at all or water mabe some eye scrounged along
the roadside there is almost no conta...
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Categories:
scrounged, adventure, natural disasters, science
Form: Free verse
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