she inherited millions
...she inherited millions
her parents’ house, furniture, clothes, knickknacks, jewelry, daddy’s watch
never spent a penny on a couch, never chose a painting or a necklace
satisfied with mommy and dad...
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Categories:
utilities, money,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Time, in the Real World
...Aurora wakes at 6:30 a.m.—
not to birdsong,
but to the wail of toddlers
and the ache in her knees
from sleeping on the side
that keeps her back from seizing.
Belle flips waffles in a castle-s...
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Categories:
utilities, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Extraordinary
...Virtues are a gift from the Donor,
Unsellable to a pawner,
Just as love is always around the corner,
So does respect attract honour,
History is a former,
The present is upon her,
The future by ...
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Categories:
utilities, motivation,
Form: Lyric
Him about me
...I said ,"I love you ,"
He asked ," How so?"
I said," I troubleshoot and brainstorm there,
Where you are truly guiding me to lead a way
To clean the silence
Not to silence the clean."
He said...
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Categories:
utilities, arabic,
Form: Didactic
Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
...Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
Any idea regarding who unnamed individual earned such lofty title? I offer a clue, that averred person unknown to many other...
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Categories:
utilities, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Nikki Giovanni black power Human Sacrifice
...After numerous threats on our lives after
a domestic violence with my abuser after
I returned from Tampa murder
trial I was finally healing several therapist home
visits my children and I wer...
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Categories:
utilities, allah,
Form: Kyrielle
We're Gonna Feel Just Fine
...My friends said C’mon let’s go, let’s head on down to Mexico.’
We’ll drink up all their tequila and we’ll snort up all their blow.
My friends said c’mon let’s go, out to Aspen, Colorado.
We’ll snu...
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Categories:
utilities, poetry,
Form: Lyric
Time To Retire
...I suddenly found myself unemployed,
after the place I worked for hit the skid.
Didn’t think it should be hard to find work,
having the experience that I did.
I gathered my resume and papers,
a...
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Categories:
utilities, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Once Pawn a Time
...Once pawn a time...
About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philade...
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Categories:
utilities, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
There Is a Lake
...THERE is a lake somewhere
'midst pollution, coots & comorants thrive
Jewel in our overflowing sewage
Creation endures Curse of (ANC, Adam &) Eve
NoTE:
ANC is the ruling party & government maj...
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Categories:
utilities, africa, animal, childhood, future,
Form: Rhyme
Slava Ukraini
...A year ago, the Russian state launched an unprovoked attack
Seizing land from Ukraine but they've bravely fighting back
If Russia can't have it, they operate a policy of scorched earth
And tu...
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Categories:
utilities, death, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rhyme
Slumlords and Christians
...I
When my landlord is a slumlord
The sermons also mock God
"There but for Grace go I"
Helps see a plank in my eye
II
Here, no exposing of hypocrisy
Makes a difference to men, women, me:
Sex...
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Categories:
utilities, absence, africa, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Double Standard
...If Ben-Gvir is a terrorist
What is Bashar Assad?
Whose hands are stained red
from spilling fellow Syrians' blood
If Ben-Gvir is a terrorist
What is Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah?
...
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Categories:
utilities, leadership, murder, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Spirit Filled
...Connection is an offering of messages as people who crossed over
Connection is spirits of those we never knew
The guides of offering life advice from the other side are special connection wi...
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Categories:
utilities, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
What a Leprechaun Shouldnt Do With Gold
...A Leprechaun found himself some gold
though, it was very very old.
He then went on a shopping spree
for houses and bought, seventy three!
But, he can’t pay his utilities, I’m told.
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Categories:
utilities, fun, funny, holiday, humorous,
Form: Limerick
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