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Premium Member Interest On Time
Loaned to all at one’s birth, a life and time,
For some, a life time paying back every dime.

© Harry J Horsman  2012...

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Categories: paying back, life, time,
Form: Couplet
Thankful None
No thing is as it was to be thankful for, thankful none
To be that unthankful for the life we see
Seen or sought all store bought 
Collecting...

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Categories: paying back, america, appreciation, community, culture,
Form: Free verse
Children of Fieldworkers
Growing up poor and Chicano in the barrio
parents working in the fields is all we know.
They tell us to go to school and learn all...

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Categories: paying back, family, growing up, house,
Form: Rhyme




Premium Member Chaotic Cousins

Oh no...I see her number on the screen!
I didn't answer calls from her last week.
One hundred miles away, cousin Colleen...
I know just what she wants!...

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Categories: paying back, angst, cousin, crazy, money,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Talk To the Dead
Talk to the Dead 
When you talk to the dead,
They give you advice,
Buzz on your finger,
lightly touch once or twice,

I told Trish about dead Joan's...

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Categories: paying back, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Final Exam Passing Out Parade 3rd Degree
Because this here is your passing 
out parade doth your cap and gown

This here I don't know if you if you are 
aware or know...

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Categories: paying back, education, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Free verse



Memorable Rides
Congratulations! You have bought a new car.
May you have many joyful and memorable rides with your family!

As regards how fortunate you are
to get such a...

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Categories: paying back, car, funny, goodbye,
Form: Light Verse
Priceless Prospective Professionals of Tomorrow
periodontal disease the bane
of *****Sapiens, 
   and many a canine species 
   such as Great Dane

or an alien pet smart...

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Categories: paying back, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Zeitgeist ( Part One )
Zeitgeist

“ It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society ”
   J. Krishnamurti

1% of the world’s population...

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Categories: paying back, lifeworld, money, poverty, social,
Form: Free verse
So Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero
The clock on the wall says 7.30 sharp
And the bell on the alarm clock  rings loud
A tear fills your eye as you realise why...

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Categories: paying back, heart, jobs, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Farmer and the Fox
A Farmer built a chicken coop 
    from extra wood and wire.
To satisfy the pent demand 
    for eggs...

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Categories: paying back, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Maxon Hadcock's Long Ride, Part Ii
...The two toughs turned, both their eyes went wide,
then as one they stared in laughing,
“Look at this fool, he thinks he’s a cowboy!
I think his...

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Categories: paying back, death, evil, god, journey,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Who Can Complain
A far cry from a woman who has so much
But no one wants to hear from her this season
I have all that I need, at...

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Categories: paying back, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Borrowing Burroughs
Fresh and new
Adventures to find
Skipping to the beat
Of a patterned mind

Follow the line
Never step on the crack
The crevices will reveal
Wanton lack

Free, everything is free
For anyone...

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Categories: paying back, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Standing Up and Firmly Against Bullies Part One
Our young people, enrolled in today's public school systems! Are being taught to stand up and fight bullies! And by doing so: stand firmly against...

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Categories: paying back, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things