Short Renters Poems

Precious memories
Angry tears
Hurting heart
Hidden fears

Lonely nights
Hectic days
Blinding headache
My mind strays

Unwanted soul
Trapped alone
Emptiness inside
Never shown

Happiness replaced
Sadness enters
Hopelessness lives
Temporary renters...

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Forbidden Gates
Written: By Tom Wright
January 2015

Some days our thoughts
Want to digress,
And we stand at gates 
Long ago forbidden,
Lurking beyond, 
Things that oft distress,
Affairs of life 
That past keeps hidden.

Thoughts don’t own us, or we them,
We’re all just renters.
Tom
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Skid row bums
Dress for no occasion,
Refuse raiders
Need no reservations.

Drug-addicted tenants
Beg for coins and candy,
Deadbeat derelicts
Reside at Hotel Alley.

Gutter renters
Lounge against brick walls,
Vagrant paupers
Rise to no wake-up calls.

Psychotic transients
Cruise dim lit corners
Wayward sons
Fight without honor....

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Palm trees and ocean breeze heavenly received by this pasty white 
northern teen. On the drive to grandma's snowbird roost she points 
out a black family; "they must be renters, blacks are only here during
the week to work".


            road to Disneyworld
lined with tin and waste wood shacks

        short of dreams come true




7.9.2020

A Memory Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier...

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87 residential buildings destroyed in Kharkiv last night
  5,000+ displaced renters in the most dire of plights

Yet Putin and Russia they so intensely despise
  Uncommon determination resounds in their cries



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My wife's former apartment building was one of the 87.
We watched it get bombed and utterly destroyed last
night. Can you imagine the hell that's playing out in
Kharkiv now?!...

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It's a sorry mind
That falls from the sky
Upside down and half blind,

Bleary eyes tell tears
Not where to go but why,
How they came to be here.

Being from a rental shelter,
Habitations made with cubes
All stacked row by row renters.

City domiciles duplex'd forever
Subsisting children excepted groups
But for the rarest, be severed.

So forgive my crazy sided heart,
It's not for less than want of love
That serious gift not all are given a part....

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