Short Stepchild Poems

I beat her like a
   red headed stepchild because
      That is what she is...


*JOKE- I don't beat her,
but I do have a red headed
stepchild.  :)...

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A redheaded stepchild, he lacked savoir faire;
seems all that he did brought his parents despair.
He made them some gingerbread, did so with flair.
Just for spite, he included some bits of his hair.
...

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The American way
The only way
The last place on earth
The Last Chance Saloon
The bee's knees
The Great Satan
The silver bullet
The last roundup
The life of the party
The enfant terrible
The golden girl
The ugly stepchild
The man in the moon
The Frankenstein monster
The great white hope
The end...

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Equal rights for all?
A woman, man and child.
Of opportunity, solidarity thru domestication
Then why? Some are treated as a stepchild.

Equal rights is similar to social injustices, non-alignment,
biased land of liberty and equal opportunity?
From nearby and abroad were seized and transferred without one’s voluntary decisions. Are embracing oppositions, rebellious injustices from the land of Equal opportunity much change and growth is needed....

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Not a student of Poetry,
  more a student of life

The words fell  before me,
  stepping-stones of delight

Not a student of Verse,
  but of musings inspired

My days withdrew inward,
  the years stoked and fired

Not a student of prose,
  but its lover the same

As words strung together,
  and called out my name

Not a Poet or Novelist,
  but a writer for sure

Verbal stepchild unnamed
  —asking for nothing more

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)...

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