BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED
...As time shortens
The aisles fill
Hollow-eyed scavengers
Prowling ransacked shelves
The challenge
Of the “tic-toc” clock
Santa will get the credit
They will get the debit
As they sit deluded
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Categories:
shortens, christmas, humor,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Glory
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Wonderful autumn colours
Enhance the branches,
Shrubs and bushes,
Hedges, trees.
The leaves have done
Their summer work
Of cleansing air
And feeding vegetation.
As daylight shortens
Le...
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Categories:
shortens, autumn, god, nature, tree,
Form: Blank verse
Echoes of Hope
...Nestling behind the dark clouds is a glimmer.
A spark though far can be seen a million miles away.
One grasp and the journey towards healing is ignited.
One step towards it shortens the journey of...
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Categories:
shortens, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
To Heartache
...You made those quiet tears fall from my eyes,
No one around me, sadness intervened,
As the burgundy sun clung to the eaves
Like ice.Through my heartache, I watched a burnt
Horizon paste ...
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Categories:
shortens, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Use Time Expediently
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Use Time Expediently
Written: by Miracle Man
5/13/2024
Yesterday’s are always unforgiving,
for hourglass sand can’t defy gravity.
Thoughts should be on time we’re living,
we shouldn...
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Categories:
shortens, life, time,
Form: Quatrain
She Wolf's - a Mama Too
...SHE WOLF’S … A MAMA TOO
She wolf’s howls piercing the air, makes
Mama Bisons panic!
Our young running here, everywhere,
I”m fearful, yes … frantic!
She wolf’s hot on my young one’s heels,
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Categories:
shortens, anxiety, death, life, mother,
Form: Personification
Slow Down To Go Farther
...It’s not hard work that kills a man,
But overwork shortens lifespan.
Indolence also does the same,
No work sure makes a person lame.
Many, in order to gain clout,
Work so hard, they wear thems...
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Categories:
shortens, family, health, life, race,
Form: Rhyme
A Hurt Passenger Loosens His Tongue
...These bastards styling as men’s movers
From their short trips expect universe;
Traveler to pay for bag in booth
Or get ready to lose his front tooth…
I’m the sorely aggrieved passenger
Usefull...
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Categories:
shortens, bullying, business, cry, money,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas List
...Here’s something about Christmas our parents never told us…but something we’ve come to know…our Christmas list gets shorter and shorter the more and more we grow.
‘Dear Santa’ we wrote when we wer...
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Categories:
shortens, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Painful Separation
...Biting and awful events!
I had to pray in convents.
You had come but left early
And you were meant an ally.
Less time you had spent with me,
With others I had felt not free.
You were my wished ...
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Categories:
shortens, absence, care, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
Grumpy Old Men
...Grumpy old men do exist
Ladies, I’m afraid to say it’s true
Though never in a million years
Did I think it would happen to you!
So relaxed and easy going
Chill ,no worries or concerns
Since...
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Categories:
shortens, age, change, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Time a Beauteous Spring
...“Of time you would make a stream upon whose
bank you would sit and watch its flowing…”
From On Time, by Kahlil Gibran
If you could imagine time as a beauteous spring
Blossoming your life, cha...
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Categories:
shortens, time,
Form: Verse
You'Re Isn'T Your
...is the opposite of isn't is is
doesn't shortens does not
does the opposite of can't
dance the can can
are two duels happening at the same time dual duels
my tail of tales are planely plain
tryi...
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Categories:
shortens, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Struggles
...I'll raise on Ode for you
Oh struggling strength of prime
In the far southside of Asia
In the bustling crowd of your kind
In the midst of social rivalry
Your neck sticks out well up high
I'...
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Categories:
shortens, allusion, character, confidence,
Form: Ballad
Oh, the Dread and Terror
...Down the dark path I run,
Through broken glass and twisted gates.
Moans cry out in burning darkness devoid of light and ray of sun.
Love and warmth this desolate place hates.
My breath shortens...
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Categories:
shortens, anxiety, dark, depression, evil,
Form: Terza Rima
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