Daze of Childhood
...Townie corner boys
(a synonym for a**holes)
won't leave me alone...
bully me, hit me, hurt me,
leave me there filled with...relief
Each day at boys school
I am told I don't belong...
(I'm no...
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Categories:
townie, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
A Consistently Poor Wage
...A consistently poor wage
Licenses rage:
An ugly fight against the cage,
Steady enveloping of stagnant wage,
A temper warning every wedge,
Rising while lowered with vintage.
Hirers open a ster...
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Categories:
townie, anxiety, bullying, business, career,
Form: Rhyme
Once Upon a Countryside
...Once were badgers in leafy dale,
once were rabbits and foxes too,
once were pheasants in shining copse where cuckoopint and coltsfoot grew.
Once were songbirds in privet hedges,
once were blu...
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Categories:
townie, anger, angst, emotions, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Crazy Mick
...Crazy Mick the Irishman, with trademark bike and overcoat,
wheeling his way back into town, classed as a tarnished silly goat.
His hair was long and curly; spoken words barely understood.
His mann...
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Categories:
townie, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Town Children
...I cannot lie. A townie’s legs are kind of atrophied.
Too much couch sitting for our tummies to get taunt.
Unfit, unhealthy, unresponsive, unable to hide,
we sit and wait for our food to arrive by...
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Categories:
townie, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Free Smiling World
...1. A constant smile is the alabaster
for struggle’s ornaments be made faster
average looks with a smile can be labial
its absence points to problems so filial,
may not keep the wolf away from the...
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Categories:
townie, angst, anxiety, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Lyric
A Townie Ventures Out
...Eye strain from computer
forced me out, alone,
into the inky blackness.
No-one about.
A townie by birth
I felt vulnerable but
twinkling stars above me
enthralled the one-time city girl.
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Categories:
townie, joy, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
Writer's Block
...Floating on a restless sea,
my mind, it wanders far.
Mental ecstasy.
Brilliant thoughts led astray;
ink, of which reads sub par.
Storming on a summer’s day,
ink is no good when the mind draws b...
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Categories:
townie, life, philosophy, social,
Form: Blank verse