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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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Matthew Harris
Categories:
shortchanged,
adventure, anger, depression, england,
Form:
Free verse
Replacing 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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Daniel Turner
Categories:
shortchanged,
hope, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Nadir
...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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Hilo Poet
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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Matthew Harris
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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Matthew Harris
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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Matthew Harris
Categories:
shortchanged,
appreciation, bird, earth, february,
Form:
Rhyme
The 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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Mystic Rose Rose
Categories:
shortchanged,
anxiety, boy, i am,
Form:
Verse
Feeling Cranky In Summer
... 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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John Anderson
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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Chinedum Ekwobi
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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David Smith
Categories:
shortchanged,
age, appreciation, baptism, care,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
What Is Real
... 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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Unseeking Seeker
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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Matthew Harris
Categories:
shortchanged,
abuse, betrayal, conflict, creation,
Form:
Free verse
The 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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David Kavanagh
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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Matthew Harris
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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Harry Biosah
Categories:
shortchanged,
age, creation, desire, humanity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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