Short Discounted Poems

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Shuffling Souls in Shifting Sands

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Shifting standards in drifting sands,
where forgiveness is a sundae treat,
spins the wheel of fortune
to shuffle-card mode. 
Where truth is discounted, 
by dealing cards face-up, 
and uncounted.
Categories: discounted, forgiveness, freedom,
Form: Free verse


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Squandering a Brilliant Mind

ideas jumped onto her head and back
Slid down her neck like wood ticks off of oak trees
She discounted them all
Wasting an IQ of 145,
Squandering a brilliant mind
Full of ideas 
Due to the lack of confidence in herself.
Categories: discounted, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
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Ds having fun

Desiree Dissention disliked dishonest disorderly Denise
Discontented Destiny discounted Desiree’s dislike of Denise
Diabolical Denise displayed despotic disapproval of Desi
Desiree and Destiny’s discord disgusted Desi and Denise
Categories: discounted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Alliteration

Not Good Enough

Dimmissed, defective, unimportant,
Discounted, unworthy,
Unnoticed, undervalued,
Guilt-ridden, under-employed,
Underpaid, misunderstanding,
Unempathetic, overwhelmed,
Under duress, under siege,
Over-whelmed,
Over-dose, undertaker, underground

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Categories: discounted, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse

The Vagaries of Time

The vagaries we grope with
The triumph of temptation avails
as the wind claws


Each heart is an ineligible abscess
Twisting lanes
Eternity scatters west
it all goes on paper
searching for a lunar shrine
a secret of scribbling sands
amongst the discounted heart
Categories: discounted, appreciation,
Form: Free verse


At the Store

Needed some sneakers
So went to a store
But nobody shops
In a store anymore.

Salesfolk approached me;
No customers shopped.
Prices were discounted,
Then again chopped.

Left with a purchase – 
A new sneaker pair,
But wonder how long
That same store will be there.
Categories: discounted, change,
Form: Rhyme
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Congratulations, Clyde

For eighteen months Clyde had been overseas

   Spouse wrote she was having twins, if you please

      Nine months for each, he counted

         Jibes by pals he discounted

            With the gestation time he was at ease

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved
Categories: discounted, funny,
Form: Limerick

Injustice Discounted

I bathe in the tears of your frailty.
Love has never seemed so distant as when two people are content with unhappiness.
Society assigns romance with an unrealistic interest rate.
A lifetime of loathing cost more than a lifetime of loneliness.
Before you deceive a woman make sure to dig a shallow grave with no tombstone.
Categories: discounted, depression, lost love,
Form: Free verse
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Speak Up

speak up
life is not fair
women are discounted
not equal in so many ways
speak up


speak up
life is difficult
seasoned workers are invisible in the work place
ignored and bullied
speak up

speak up
life is hard
generalizing people by race, religion and political party
takes away their individuality 
speak up
Categories: discounted, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Writer's Block

Discounted sentiments
half truths and partial dreams
a broken life
and broken meter
no room left for rhyme

Cryptic messages
dire warnings and vain pleas
an empty soul
and listless pen
nothing written on the page

Diverted muses
forgotten thoughts and hopes
a deviated body
and empty head
no more divine connection
Categories: discounted, art, introspection, on writing and words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Your Money's Worth

Where a bargain is not a play on words;
I grip the cart eager to seek discounted goods,
Beautifully arranged on tin shelves.

Smiles around every corner;
Down every aisle a satisfied person.
A deal on every item, leaving the store by the bagful.

A much needed change of pace;
Weaving up and down the unforgettable
Joy that is the dollar store.
Categories: discounted, business, happiness, life, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
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Issues

Matters of one's heart and mind conditions uninvited
                    confronts each of us. Hurdles and bobby traps complicate
                     our paths.

                    Where does one go from here ignored, discounted, or remain
                    consumed and forfeited or continue to persevere and hang
                     touch with these staying powers to master our issues.
Categories: discounted, appreciation, character, confidence, confusion, culture, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

There Is a Problem

There is a problem in aisle three.
I can't reach the garden peas,
they are on offer.
An elderly man is down.
A handful of helpers, 
all on one knee
as if at prayer.
I cannot get there,
I have to wait,
for the oxygen,
the first responders to
firstly respond.
for the aisle to clear.
I found a piece of 
discounted chicken
while waiting.
He was still breathing
as I reached over
his prone body
for the canned peas.
Categories: discounted, poetry,
Form: Free verse

May Be

a quire or two, 
or three, may be
uncharterd
uncounted
discounted, maybe
tablets
stone shards
heavy slabs of me
rain soaked reams
sloughed off of me
shoulders of clay
unweighted may be
separate from morass
the mass of me
plunged heavy and sunk
in a literary sea
of words great men
spoke to me
I look for words
so meanings i'll see
and write, and write,
and write, maybe
so inner thoughts
so quiet may be.

03/06/2017
Categories: discounted, peace, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
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and now for my next trick I will try to be seventy

and now for my next trick
I will try to be seventy
SEVENTY!
My brain yells “We are twelve!”
My soul yells “nineteen at the most!”
My arthritic ankles yell “we are a hundred.
Being seventy ought to be a cinch.”

What does seventy look like?
How does seventy act?
I know that seventy is invisible.
And seventy’s ideas are discounted
and seventy is easily ignored.

But I have little other knowledge
of how to be seventy.
I guess I will wing it.
Categories: discounted, age,
Form: Free verse

I Am

I am the wingless moth; writhing helplessly towards that dim porch light… 


I am the thunderstorm, so close you can taste the moisture; only to pass the parched land without a single raindrop…


I am the infant rabbit being tormented by the cat as the children scream in terror. I am underestimated, discounted, and thought of as inept at every turn... 


I am an afterthought if even a thought at all… I am that realization that hits you years later... I am...
Categories: discounted, self,
Form: Free verse
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Great Aunt Edda and Me

Great Aunt Edda was super friendly when I first arrived.
Hugging and kissing me, holding me a bit too long.
I was pushing away, because her perfume was overwhelming.
I could not breathe, thought I would die in a coma of smelly old woman.

She held tight, with the grip of an alligator’s jaw.
When we got home, I begged my mother to never take me back
She discounted my concerns; Aunt Edda was her favorite aunt.
God heard me though; she passed away in her sleep that night.
Categories: discounted, family,
Form: Free verse

Deeded Love

It's true I deeded my heart 
that rapturous date
 Sacral vestments our carnal 
annuities did aggregate  
Bartered my dreams; title did 
abrogate
Twined our limbs; bonded our 
estate
But fealty with baggage did not 
equate
Your mercurial state brokered 
new rate
Your charming assets failed 
o'er time to appreciate
Frivolous investments virgin 
stock did depreciate 
Mounting liabilities did fidelity's 
cost inflate
Now tainted, discounted 
merchandise seeking rebate
Categories: discounted, lost love
Form: Rhyme
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Movement At the Sea

Melodic are the waves, white foam across the sand
Spreading like fingertips, reaching along the land
Moving tiny grains and pieces of shell
Tumbling inward, as the tide begins to swell
Not a fragment of life is discounted by the sea
Where everything is something, as tiny as can be
The sand is dried by the heat of the sun
As the wind turns it into, blown dunes for fun
Where fragments build scenic views at the sea
All from something, as tiny as can be

Heidi Sands

5/25/19
Categories: discounted, beauty, life, sea,
Form: Rhyme
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