Fallen In December
...you scrounger
forthcoming
yet again
in this cold
december air
to pilfer another life
from those of us
already impaired
of holiday spirit
to reiterate
your power
make us fall
on bended k...
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Categories:
scrounger, death, december, goodbye,
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:
scrounger, military, war,
Form: Couplet
The Hyena
...Guess my reputation could be sweeter, but hey-
At least I'm not a skunk!
Backbiting scrounger you say?
I like to call it being environmentally friendly;
No waste when I'm around, I can assure you...
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Categories:
scrounger, animal,
Form: Personification
Homeless Alexander
...Homeless Alexander
Why are you so bloody happy,
Living in your cardboard box.
Looking at life from street-level,
Holes in your boots and socks.
Hello Alexander, my old friend,
Did you enjo...
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Categories:
scrounger, appreciation, lonely, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
My Own Proverb
...My own proverb....
"When you become a decent person, this world makes one scrounger less".
Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka...
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Categories:
scrounger, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
What I Gave
...What I gave
Was a hand of friendship
When all seemed lost
A small ray of hope
When on a rubbish tip was tossed
A way out of a problem
When not a penny to his name
A chance, a hope of a tomorrow
When ...
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Categories:
scrounger, giving,
Form: Verse
Where Did I Put It - Hunting
...I can't find it anywhere, I've been searching high and low
It must be somewhere here, I really can not go
Until it shows itself to me I have to stay and look
I'll miss my date unless I look in eve...
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Categories:
scrounger, funny,
Form: Sonnet
Losing the Write
...I saw the importance of the things that I say
When my train of thoughts was ferried away
A sentiment scrounger enticed me to follow
Leaving me speechless in gloom with the shadows
My lips, they...
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Categories:
scrounger, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Letter S
...I AM LETTER “S”
Sneaky, sarcastic, selfish, slipshod shirker,
Stumbler, smart-ass, scrounger, sloppy worker
Shiftless sycophant, stingy swine:
These qualities are what I want to avoid bei...
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Categories:
scrounger, introspection,
Form: Couplet
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:
scrounger, adventure, devotion, faith, father,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sixtyfourf
...SixtyfourF
CharlaXFabels
The Underdog
The most disgusting thing of all the hair unkempt can be over looked the smell
can be ignored but the alcoholic impairment the fumble with the fingers the l...
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Categories:
scrounger, parody, people, satire, science
Form: Prose Poetry
Halloween Scrounge(R)
...There is a carmel apple laying near the bustop of the bus sun tran. The carmel
apple has not even been bitten yet, bye the mouse or bye the man. The carmel
apple is perched upon the gravel waitin...
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Categories:
scrounger, education, funny, hope, imagination,
Form: Free verse