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Cri de coeur courtesy thirty something English earl cry baby

...Cri de coeur courtesy thirty something English earl cry baby

the Earl of Yarmouth (William Seymour)
a descendant of very late
(to the power of Google - ha) Jane Seymour,
Henry VIII's third wife...
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Categories: shortchanged, adventure, anger, depression, england,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberReplacing Gloom

...This thirsting land, parched by the sun
An autumn drought, that summer spun
Without the rain, no colors found
Fall foliage fizzled, green to brown

A cheated heart, now feels shortchanged
That ...
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Categories: shortchanged, hope, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberNadir

...A fable of worth weaves a fair tale,
that wealth possesses and not possessed.
A quest to feign means forges a trail
long jaded by the marks they unveil.
Though blind seeker's minds a treasured ch...
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Categories: shortchanged, anxiety, betrayal, character, death,
Form: Rhyme

Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter

...Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter

Entrapment videre licet fiendish
gnarly hustling scheme erector -
sent me to the poor house, where alms
not forthcoming to ease financial affli...
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Categories: shortchanged, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

February 13th, 2023 old man winter gave a one two punch

...February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch

Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
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Categories: shortchanged, abortion, abuse, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024

...Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024

A scent (and sixth sense predominates),
when apple boughs
and other aromatic flora
laden with blossoms and fruit
gently assail cilia of the nostrils...
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Categories: shortchanged, appreciation, bird, earth, february,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Signal and the Extra Mile

...He awoke one day stoic and changed
his legs somehow were rearranged 
yes, he felt he had been shortchanged 

legs of steel that ran fast  

so when they kidnapped his girlfriend ...
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Categories: shortchanged, anxiety, boy, i am,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberFeeling Cranky In Summer

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Why do I feel cranky in summer?
Everyone’s living, I'm not.
Burdened by cares, I can't set free
It's so darn hot!
It stifles the joys.
It forces me indoors.
The air is thick, it weigh...
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Categories: shortchanged, anger, summer, sunshine,
Form: Free verse

Always Count Your Money

...The money given to you, please, count,
Even if the giver were a fount
And his trusted Nice Nickname "Money,"
For if you got shortchanged 'Not funny!'
He'd waited for you to cash count
And you ha...
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Categories: shortchanged, business, cry, money, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Gay Or Straight Or Anything In Between

...Thirty years working as an Early Childhood teacher,
With spells working with children of all ages,
Including teenagers with messed up lives,
Has taught me that gay or straight,
Or anything in bet...
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Categories: shortchanged, age, appreciation, baptism, care,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberWhat Is Real

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Scriptures speak to us in riddles
Relying upon esoteric symbols 
They may be well intentioned
But it’s time this truth is mentioned 
That addressing mind, invoking fear
Guilt of imagin...
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Categories: shortchanged, religion, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Pleasant Spring Like Day February 17th, 2022 Part One

...avast extent of following poem
crafted a couple plus years ago,
when foretaste of temperate weather
covered swath of eastern seaboard.

Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),
I would ...
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Categories: shortchanged, abuse, betrayal, conflict, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Devil Who Knew

...Wealth you seek, hmm let me decide,
Ok let’s trade, work out a fair price,
Sometimes I can be quite extortionate,
This special case, perhaps very nice.

Depends weather, you please me,
Better b...
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Categories: shortchanged, allegory, corruption, desire, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Spindleshanks Ain'T No Legend

...Spindleshanks Ain't No Legend...

But sits here donned in his foreign
aged (not so lovely) bag of bones
barely functioning surviving, but by
skin off his teeth, (which explains
dentures) regret...
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Categories: shortchanged, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry

New Wine In Old Bottle

...At cock crow 
Lady and Mr. Y, turned seventy
They googled themselves;
The wind whistled past
And exposed the gooses back
They felt the wrinkles 
On their temple,
The rings around their eyes
A...
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Categories: shortchanged, age, creation, desire, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry

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