Short Hard Up Poems

she preferred a bulge 
        the one inside my wallet 
         now i’m just ~ hard up

By
David Kavanagh...

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Rhoda Maverick loved Tom Mix
And cowboys keen on roping tricks
So hard-up men
Found her their hen
And all her chicks were little prix...

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The gambler was hard-up for cash
Didn’t get it, but instead got a rash
He worked up an inch
His stomach started to twitch
Money hungry, the man felled and crash...

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We Had Been Hard Up

We had been hard up living in a tent,
And for all of our sins we did repent;
Garden planted;
Chants canted;
We are glad God gave us His consent.

Jim Horn

For Andrea,

My 5,555th poem....

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into the barnyard with a high knee-jerk

a yellow duck waddles in with a smirk

it pecks the hens on the rump

Old Mac Donald named it Trump

like the president he's hard up at work


9/15/2017...

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The cost of living is continuing to rise
With hard up family's there is no surprise.

To admit you are struggling you might feel shame
Unable to survive you hide the pain

To pay your bills is just one task that's hard to beat
The choice we have is to heat or eat.

But prices will still rise and families will survive
By tighting their belts and getting on with their lives.
P...

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Compassion is lost
Understanding is the key
Love is the answer

Unlocking the pain
Making waves in the ocean
The under tow pulls

A downward thrust calls
Swim hard up to the blue sky
Breathe in and breathe out

Open mouths suck air
To calm the tired spirits
Exhaling their pain outward

Deeply remember
Listen to the suffering
Take it not on board

Compassion is lost
Understanding is the key
Love is the answer...

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I was Douglass
A good person
Better than the day that gifts a friendly sun
A humble fellow
Humbler than the trees that regard the regal ride of the
wind.
Oh, wealth
You all I desired, then
Why Playing ceaseless host
To those honest crooks
And left me waiting in the pinching rain of hard-up-ish?
Now, I'm Dog-lass
A rich man
Richer like a man who had 1, 000 wives
A smart fellow
Smarter than the chimpanzee even in its own game...

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The thing I used to worry before
when I was hard up, strapped for cash
were bills to pay and other concerns.

Indeed, they’re priorities that need attention.
Across the length of time I’ve survived,
I’ve learned to understand in some ways
I’ve opened the doors to other suggestions
that I should be wise whenever called for.

When urgent needs crop up and unfold
I’ve to be quick to attend to them
for they’re number one and essential
in life’s conditions that describes where I am....

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Never go out on a stomach that’s empty,
Was one of my mother’s foibles.
If it’s only a salad sandwich,
You’ll ward off possible problems.
And always drink plenty of liquid
Or you’ll find you’ll run out of oomph.
She was always there to tend my wounds
(I was always hurting something)
My comfort when I was anxious,
She was my guardian angel
Though hard up, she denied me nothing.
Perhaps, looking back, I was spoilt.
But I’ll always remember her comments
If I live to be a hundred.
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