On The Money
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To Americans, July 4th
is Independence Day,
with; barbecues, concerts, fireworks,
picnics, parades, patriotic festivities,
(a.k.a., Freedom Day).
Despite the star-spangled banner's,
r...
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Categories:
touts, conflict, england, how i
Form: Rhyme
Wave Goodbye Comrades
...Welcome to the United States
Home of the new Russian empire
Half of you have the impression
That our Democracy should expire
You choose to bow down to some clown
Who touts Vladimir Put...
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Categories:
touts, america,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Is the Tale of the West
...WILD IS THE TALE OF THE WEST
Wild is the tale of the West,
Wicked foe put a living soul to rest.
Wasted woes was what we witnessed.
Held by the hair, he used her head
to get a head while h...
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Categories:
touts, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Waltzing With Roses
...Hummingbirds and red blooms delight
I write as flowers near me dance
It smells as it moves through my mind
My mind's pane touts your skillful flight
I'm charmed by your bright, warm...
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Categories:
touts, analogy, appreciation, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Yeesh
...I’ll never understand the drive
To buy or own or wear
An item a celebrity
Touts, thinking we will care.
But many do and run right out
To be the first to preen
In clothes or shoes they’ve no...
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Categories:
touts, celebrity, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
The Ultimate Equalizer
...Death is the ultimate equalizer
who can't be bribed, bullied, or corrupted.
And He's an impartial sympathizer
when pain progresses uninterrupted:
and all your hopes and dreams get disrupt...
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Categories:
touts, anxiety, death, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quintain (English)
Bragging Rights Gone
...I once knew a young fellow named Swanson
Who bragged about his enormous johnson
He caught it in a zipper
Which was a painful ripper
And now, he no longer touts his once-on.
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Categories:
touts, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Morning Scenario
...Ladies in the city, gather on street
For a pot of water, they yell and fight.
To sell his vegetable baskets, touts
the vegetable vendor, aloud he shouts.
A butterfly breaches the c...
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Categories:
touts, animal, beautiful, life,
Form: Rhyme
Murder of Africa
...MURDER OF AFRICA
Mother,
Mother of the black race,
Behold your children,
Dead and dying,
Not even a broken hope,
Can their withered hands grope?
Mother,
Mother of Africa,
See your child...
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Categories:
touts, africa, anger, freedom, mother
Form: Free verse
The Simplest of Thank-You's
...Can I thank you in passing for helping 'me'
for easing 'my way' into the Presidency
*******
Bush Jr. might have thanked Clinton for an economy
that produced a budget sur...
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Categories:
touts, appreciation, humanity, leadership, political,
Form: Couplet
Spark
...SPARK
Jeannie Flinn Furlong
My Head claimed, "It’s time to pen my feelings for you.
She thought your season had ripened to a friendly adieu…
I wanted my cleverness to sound brave and bold...
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Categories:
touts, break up, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Eve Roper
...E- Eve has a special poetic expertise -
V- vaunting her fam'ly, which she touts with ease.
E- Eve embraces a mother's "loving caress"
R- relating "laughter" with unmatched finesse.
O- ...
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Categories:
touts, 11th grade, family, god,
Form: Acrostic
The Parliament
...Your hallowed chamber shuts its doors
Against our constricted faces
As our feet endure heated floors
Because of a million cases
Before your oath, we gave the votes
In spite of sweltering coe...
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Categories:
touts, africa, angst, betrayal, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Scripture
...The true Kama Sutra statistic
Drives Bible believers ballistic
The "Good Book" touts war
But whatever for?
Making love is more realistic!...
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Categories:
touts, religion,
Form: Limerick
T'Is Poem
...t'is poem ain't about
jolting jiggery-pokery, moaning mayhem, pored pouts
shrewd shenanigans, fractured fossils
masticated mood or callous confetti
t'is poem ain't about
punctured politics, l...
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Categories:
touts, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
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