Short Rents Poems

Scars
Chastisement's tattoo
Acid mark skin
Rents confidence in two
Scars...

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A prime-numbered day if years leap
Adds one extra cycle for sleep
This calendar fact
Keeps seasons intact
And discounts our rents that ain't cheap...

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ASCNYC fortifies me
It regulates words glowing from my head
It translates itself as great help
Helping one and all
To climb from dungeon of fear, to
Mount floors with open doors
Like arms giving warmth
ASCNYC rents center stage for you and me.

*...

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A valentine be childish not
'Tween lovers or 'mongst friends
For rebirth of the kindness brought
Does truly mend past rents.

So as I pass the days near you
With freshness in my dreams
I know from grays come skies of blue
Like seasons' change it seems....

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Exorbitant-

extortionist,

self-orient-

red-royalties with,

oil based rents...

Ten-tentacle dresses,

head-level-leftover-ness.


"Instead of shedz we're getting into the mess,"

the fled are those who made precautions press,

loftily next....

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Big malls and mega-stores, equals small houses,
With Waring spouses,
And children often the losers.

Making cents, not sense,
Politicians talking nonsense,
About skyrocketing rents.

When will the penny drop,
About the way we shop,
So, we can wear collars less hot....

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primal energy coiled
like a snake sleep-
ng goddess of lov
intelligence of complete
maturation electric cur-
rents rising up we
were on the gree
n earth chantin
emotional upheavals sur-
facing repressed desir-
es boiling up spreadin
into a whole body re-
lease of massive
blisssssssss...

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Sold to pay the rents due, the last remaining fossil of what were true.







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Date: 11/07/2016
Premiere Contest: One, One Liner - Theme The Old Rocking Chair
Sponsor: Rick Parise
Form: Monoku 
Syllables: 17...

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"i...see..."
(said the blind man)
"sew"
(he took out his thimble...needles and saw)
"a coat"
(threads of truth...a covering of friends)
"rents"
(...other washed rags to keep warm by)
"wear"
(...as shelter...like..this...usual old crap)
"to beg"
(for change outside the subway where...the shop once was)...

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I Wonder
As the rain continues to fall I think of you
I wonder what I am going to do 
As the lightning rents the sky in two
I wonder what I am going to do

As lips part and taste the essence of you 
I wonder what I am going to do 
As the pillows weep when you are gone
I wonder how I will carry on.

©  29/12/2012~GG~...

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A scuba diver rents a boat
The driver of the boat goes
into the deep water
There he prepares himself
To be ready for the big dive
Then jumps into the deep water



Seeing some fish fish-he swims
Being side by side enjoys 
          the fun
When the divers tires
he returns to the boat
To take him to the shore
       once more...

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Wings of bat spread on curved moon mystique screen
autumn air rents in howl of goblins green
blue hue of moon pumpkins spay
trick or treat masked children say
awake in weird night for it’s Halloween.

October 21, 2019
Syllable count : 10/10/7/7/10
Checked on howmanysyllables.com
Contest : A New Halloween Inspired Limerick
Sponsor : Tania Kitchin...

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The hero of the ghetto comes into veiw as a mother who had a new born baby
Who finds out rents do and the daddy fled and left you to lay in your bed alone
 and he gave you a heart of stone knowing you have to be strong for your own self
 and the seed of a man who said he would take care of you needs
 but indeed he ran off to be free and now you have to feed the baby and provide its needs...

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a prime stream makes her course
along niger’s foot-path
a juxtapose of ancestral headstones
& there: life sings like death?
& there: death cries into life?
for ancients are new arrivals at life!

o, a new cry ever rents this sky
along niger’s foot-path
now, greeting our drumming sky
o, a navigator of a mystery-path 
lay on a fragile bedside seeking attention
a weird thunder of a rainy commotion!...

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Gramps knows a minister
who collects classic Corvettes.
He rents another garage whenever

he buys another Corvette.
He says his estate will sell the cars 
when he passes away.

The money will go to the poor. 
Gramps knows another minister who 
has turned down a gift of beautiful quilts.

She said give them to Oliver Burns
whose children sleep under blankets 
the sightless can see through.


Donal Mahoney...

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Wings of bat spread on curved moon’s mystique screen,
autumn air rents in howl of goblins green, 
moon dust blue hue pumpkins spray.
Trick or treat masked children say,
awake in weird night for it’s Halloween.

Cloaked figure with hooded face in mask tight,
Dracula greets the vampire, his friend right,
dances wild as if sprite-gripped,
until their thin robes are ripped, 
flung far in dark air of Halloween night....

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She dreams of mansions; apartments he rents.
She’d love a Corvette; he drives a Chevette.
She stays in  hotels while he sleeps in tents.
She’s been to Europe; he’s never gone yet.

He works as butcher; she faints seeing blood.
He goes for beer, while she adores champagne.
He’s earth; she’s water. You’d think they’d make mud.
But they make passion again and again!

June 20, 2021
for Jack Webster's 'Workshop: Adjectives Deleted' Contest...

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  As barren as the moon,
  Perhaps not later,
  But soon!

  Filtered air,
  Seawater collected,
  Eaten with chop sticks,
  If you please,
  Whatever we can eat with ease!

  Too hot to live on the surface,
  Burrow under the ground.
  Deep enough for cooling temps,
  Not enough to raise the rents!

  Everyone moves to shaded ground,
  Rocks hold heat,
  So, underground!

  The moon is looking better all the time,
  Not so crowded,
  To move around.
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