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Shortchanging Poems - Poems about Shortchanging
Hostages Kidnapped: Casualties of War
...Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war After extorting pound of flesh lifetime humiliation drummed into captives hammering indelible nightmare no amount of therapy can expunge. Lifetime traum......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
shortchanging,
anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
Midwinter Solstice Con
...As the Earth’s Southern Pole is pushed farthest Away from sun, Winter Solstice arrives. The sleepy sun's up-time is, the shortest It's been all this year, shortchanging our lives. Sol has its ......
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John Anderson
Categories:
shortchanging,
earth, spring, summer, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
Satanology 4 Satan and Demons
...A policy of shortchanging Workers, The whole submissive lot Plain Dockers. Satan couldn’t say they were not faithful, Yet, of a circumstance damned hateful… All about what The Demons grossly......
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Chinedum Ekwobi
Categories:
shortchanging,
absence, cry, evil, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
My Contingency Measure In Case of Gotterdammerung
...My contingency measure in case of…götterdämmerung A scenario unfolds more abominable among any previous warring factions, his wicked weltanschauung charred effigies futilely hung against regi......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
shortchanging,
angst, anxiety, bereavement, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Voting Without Aggravation
...Voting without aggravation... Otherwise known as absentee ballot/ mail-in ballot if ye read no further... please exercise opportunity to cast ballot obviously freedom to choose, but take seri......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
shortchanging,
12th grade, betrayal, freedom,
Form:
Political Verse
Somewhere In Colchester Great Britain
...Cupid loosed a love potion laced arrow alas and alack thy nineteen year young daughter Shana Aubrey, smitten with glassy eyed and feverish amorousness toward a Engli......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
shortchanging,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
A Bonanza of Opportunities Went Up In Gun Smoke
...As if in a decades long somnambulant trance for majority of years I finally awoke, three score minus one orbitz tracked 'round el sol by this human drone, a custom mad......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
shortchanging,
11th grade, 7th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Unstoppable
...Unstoppable have to be the flames, That result from the shortchanging of zeal And sabotaging of the undying will, To soar the feared heights Above the fancy's flights. Day and night have to af......
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Hannington Mumo
Categories:
shortchanging,
devotion
Form:
Rhyme
The Realization of Goodbye
...The heart is a vast ocean of memories, remnants of things that once were. A helpless face, and a shattered dream. I long to recall the sweetest parts, yet it just cannot be. I would be shortchan......
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©
Kim Porter
Categories:
shortchanging,
life, loss, love,
Form:
I do not know?