Short Shacks Poems

Night train skids off tracks;
it crashes into shacks...  
no easy escape.

It's nightmare or dream? 
All passengers scream...
train plunges into lake....

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I'm all right Jack:
   as the wretched live in shacks,
   in the slums out the back,
   by the place with Big Mac’s, 
   of the price that they lack....

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Joy,

Never feels dancing

In

Gloomy palaces 

But

Delighted is to dance 

In

Gleeful Shacks! 





© Demetrios Trifiatis
  23 September 2015...

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On my way to find a stick
I found a quack with  seven hicks
Each hick had seven hacks
Each hack had seven chicks
Each chick had seven shacks

Shacks, Hicks, hacks, and chicks
How many should I hit with the stick ?...

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their youth are blaring rock bands from ipods
in electricless village bamboo shacks
their adults bemoan the loss of culture

our youth are blazing on ahead, consuming
in never sleeping cities of credit and commerce
our adults are lost in mezmerizing ragas...

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I smell the flesh at my temples burning,
and the pounding of my head shacks
and rattles of death burns my soul.
Heat- ouch!
fire- burning so hard
and the women with the buckets of water and alcohol
don't come around to put me out and give me a drink.

I sit there burning, dying, and feeling bad...

11/25/2013...

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Our future he impacts
Social issues he just stacks

He gives educators the axe
Keeps piling the load on our backs
His stance on illegal immigrants lacks

He took a loose stance on tax
Mud slung, he seldom retracts
From his vantage point he acts

Lives in a mansion while we live in shacks
 Lots of promises, few facts...

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 Simple slacks, nymphomaniacs bent over against the wall

   Training tracks, trapped out shacks three pirouettes then fall

     Switching blues not of the clues pills not measured in balls

       Way to close the overdosed introducing the new King Fentanyl...



                               

                                       bmdavey@08/2024

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       A cold, comfortless park bench
          an empty subway train

       A bed of leaves, trending damp
          a knoll of grass behind an exit ramp

       Long-abandoned shacks
          or railroad tracks

       Boarded-up homes
          no-trespassing danger zones

       All these serenade me to sleep
          echo the music, all night I weep
...

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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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O' there's so much resilience in residence;
People so inside...
vessels, lessons, treasure, houses, 
dwellings beaches, farms apartments in caves
Living in dwellings homeless shelters grounds yards sidewalks condemned house trains and boats
Scampi shanty shacks
O' there's so much resilience in residence,
People inside 
RESIDENCE 

4/16/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025...

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When journalism fails to deliver the facts,
And no longer apologies for shameful acts,
Constantly ending up on the wrong tracks,
Failing to prevent shark attracts,
On those who suffer from panic attacks,
More interested in becoming political hacks,
Papering over the cracks,
And roasting words on racks,
All to fill the owners money sacks,
Is it not time we turned our backs,
And return to our shacks,
To give our children what journalism lacks....

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