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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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John Lawless
Categories:
shortens,
christmas, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Autumn Glory
... 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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John Puckett
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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Joseph D. Chukwuma Ahumibe
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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Brian Curry
Categories:
shortens,
heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
Use Time Expediently
... 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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Tom Wright
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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Barbara Barry-Nishanian
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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David Richmond
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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Chinedum Ekwobi
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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Jim Yerman
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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Chinedum Ekwobi
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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Deb M
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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Vijay Pandit
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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Christopher Quigley
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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Ovie Omokefe
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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David Cardamone
Categories:
shortens,
anxiety, dark, depression, evil,
Form:
Terza Rima
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