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Shortchanged Poems - Poems about Shortchanged

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 Member 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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Categories: shortchanged, hope, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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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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 Member 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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Categories: shortchanged, anxiety, boy, i am,
Form: Verse
Premium Member 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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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 Member 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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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 Member 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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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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