Short Mart Poems

Half besides Shoe Mart
Rise height of ephemeral,
The other side blank....

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Mealtime
out of food
flew to the Mart
fixed it up ;ate real quick
Bedtime


Copyright McCuen 2009...

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What you sayin?
We own it
For the morning of the lord
To the night
Greatness
Don’ start
Tarty mart...

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It is where you shop

everything is up for grabs

time everlasting

low prices are the key there

Sam knew what we all wanted...

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Obama, Obama he's our leader
He's not much more than a Wal-mart greeter
Though he didn't understand
Tea Party gave him a hand
Lost the House and it couldn't be sweeter...

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Went to Wal-Mart to buy a Christmas ham
All I could find was a giant traffic jam
Near the toys__decorations
By my calculations
Come day after Christmas, dumpsters see cram...

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Writing from my humble heart
Wielding words in a creative cart
Making music in my melodious mart
This is a come back of alluring art
…A will to continue writing to play my part...

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Keep love in your heart and do not fall apart

Keep wisdom in your heart and ask Bart

Keep power in your heart and go to K-mart

Keep spirit in your heart and go and get the merit...

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Here lies Mr. Stanley McCarver
     a proud corn and beans farmer

       Stanley ate his yields, didn't bring them to mart
       Don't linger too long, you can still smell his farts...

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Got it as a gift,
From J-Mart, as I recall
Genuine plastic, too!!!
Now I've seen it all!

I'd make my first fondue,
If I only knew....
Please, tell me true....
What the hell is fondue??...

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newborn puppy wanted to go to Wal-mart too
he was happy at first, but then his nap came due
he wanted his blue blankie, his bottle and his bed.
but he ended up too stimulated to sleep instead....

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newborn puppy wanted to go to Wal-mart too
he was happy at first, but then his nap came due
he wanted his blue blankie, his bottle and his bed.
but he ended up too stimulated to sleep instead....

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Wal-Mart has removed its door greeters,
Replacing them with purchase eyes
Grabbing receipts at exits
Waving them like white flags
Yes, they paid! They paid! 
You may pass; thanks!
Do the dance,
Pappy,
lol!...

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Years ago I wrote a jingle for a real store.
They didn't know I did, but I did.




The soda pop shop
The soda pop shop
Be sure to stop
In the soda pop shop
If it ain't pop
We ain't got it
Jeff Mart!...

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think of the major events of your life 
  
imagine them as if they were 
  
scenes from a film. 
  
now, replace yourself with Andy Dick. 
  
this is your story 
  
coming soon to a K-Mart bargain bin 
  
near you...

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N-atal
E-xpression
L-ets

F-ine
R-eader
A-ccept
N-ifty
C-omposition
I-nspiring
S-mart

R-eceiver
O-f
X factor
A-bout
S-tatement

Topic: Birthday of Nel Francis E. Roxas (November 15) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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The Country Mart broods over caverns 
of lemon ices, and a logging truck 
grinds the grade, and the tall pines 
point at a half-moon in the mid-
morning sky that nobody else seems 
to notice, except me, and I’m 
just waiting....

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There are those who presume they are smart
         for having a hyper bright light
         just for having the title of DOCTOR right
         and be known for being LORD bart
         when actually are  beast piece of mart ...!...

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long lines at food mart

I move to the self checkout-

wait for assistance


Sandra M. Haight

~4th Place~
Contest: Writing Challenge 5, May 2019, Senryu
Sponsor: Dear Heart
Judged: 06/09/2019
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K-eep
E-agerly
Y-our
S-mart
I-ntellect
E-mploying

W-ise
A-ptitude
T-o
K-now
I-f
N-ame
S-eems

T-o
E-xpress
O-utstanding
F-orm
I-n
L-iterary
O-peration

Topic: Birthday of Keysie Watkins Teofilo (May 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Carbohydrates, caffeine and chocolate

Crave, create and crash
The season of darkness upon us
Time for a hundred yard dash

To the food mart
Fill up the cart
With stimulants and cheer

Same old story, 
same solution
Just a different year...

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I, too, hear America singing,
As my flip-flops
Cruise the Wal-Mart aisles.
A fast-approaching wind
Drives me in to shop.
I smell the heat-rush
Of the hotdog vendor--
Clothing, mustard and relish.
Carts flash.
Soda crackles.
Purses snap.
Nothing's lost on me....

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He stood erect.
I don't know
if he would have kissed his mate
     or patted his childrens' heads
when he set out from camp
     to procure food.
But they were happy
when he returned provisioned.
I bought him rice and tuna at Wal-Mart.
This is homelessness today....

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Have Been Known To Come Back Again

Are probably wondering where I have been;
I finally have returned  and am back again;
So shall delight; 
More poems write,
On plenty of paper with a magnificent pen.

Jim Horn

Use a cheap composition book
that I bought at Wal-Mart nearby....

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Beginning voyage.
Cruel taunts of repeating meditate,
"Do I really have it?"
Finding out?
Step forth in the knowing.
Just a few dollars away,
Writing supplies at any Wal-Mart.
Heart?
Closed,
It only a pipe dream coming to a now end.
Opened,
Most definitely in the poetry journey-...

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