The Christmas Spirit
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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
Hearts were eager and energetic – as wild as the sage grouse
No one could sleep because of those presents beneath the tree
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Categories:
spendthrifts, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Spendthrifts
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On Christmas morning, beneath the tree
Wonderous gifts her heart could foresee
When she opened her gifts
She knew these were spendthrifts
The rest of the day she felt crappy
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Categories:
spendthrifts, christmas, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Each Day of Our Lives
...Each day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minera...
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Categories:
spendthrifts, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
The American Boxing Day
...The American Boxing Day
Is one where the retailers pay
For unwanted gifts
Received from spendthrifts
They can't possibly give away...
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Categories:
spendthrifts, boxing day ,
Form: Limerick
Nature's Caretakers
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Nature endows us with gifts
hoping we'll not be spendthrifts.
She warns us to be aware
her balance we might impair.
Must end all destructive ways
for we a...
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Categories:
spendthrifts, appreciation, care, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Children of Israel - Chapter 17, Verses 27, Holy Koran
...Surely spendthrifts are the brothers of Satan
And Satan tends to be ungrateful to his Lord as much as he can....
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Categories:
spendthrifts, religion
Form: Free verse
Words
...Words are our mortal enemy
they destruct the inner most part
of the human soul
Cut like sharp scissors and paper
just one swift snip and it's a wound
wounds heal,
but memories remain like sca...
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Categories:
spendthrifts, life, peace, people,
Form: Free verse