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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Categories:
shortchanging, life, loss, love,
Form: I do not know?