Value-Padded

Fools may scurry, as best friends worry.

What respite does a victim need,

When he advice no more will heed?

He pads the bill

To have his fill,

Yet wonders why he can’t succeed.

No getaway, no time to flee.

The sages say, “Just let him be.”

True values hold

Much more than gold.

And pearls purloined are mere debris.

Perchance it takes a pound of pluck

To rouse a rebel rogue, who’s stuck.

No shady deal

May horrors heal.

And easy money seals a schmuck.

c2017 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Image:

Adapted by this user from vintage artwork.

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

April A to Z Blog Challenge

National Poetry Writing Month / NaPoWriMo

Meme Express: “easy money”

One-Liner Wednesday: “best friends” – See subtitle.

Three Word Wednesday: “pluck,” “rebel,” and “shady”

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A Snapshot Worth Remembering

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A Snapshot Worth Remembering

Photo c2009 by Nickers and Ink

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Romp in Circumstance

(An American Sandwich)

Flashing lights mimic insights

of late-night, last-minute exam reviews.

Proud elders and educators beam

with wonder, hope and disbelief.

They leave their high school days behind

with a joyous toss of mortarboard.

c2009 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Posted for a variety of prompts:

American Sandwich (3 lines, 51 syllables)

Easy Street Prompts (“remembering because we should)

Meme Express (“graduation”)

Just Jeering

Just Jeering:

What’s the view from the head of the class?

First Chair, Beware –

Limericked Peek at Class Oblique

Perhaps the pretty teacher’s pet,

Too petulant, yet never threat –

She led the class,

Jumped to surpass,

But was the first we might forget.

A century ago, she might

Have pleased instructors with delight,

But now it seems,

The stuff of dreams

Are young smart alecks impolite.

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (““teacher’s pet”)

Friday Flash-55 (55 words)

Friday Funnies (humor)

Meme Express (Friday Freedom)

Simply Snickers (“jeer,” “jump” and “just”)

Weekend Wordsmith (“century)

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Paper Tales

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Paper Tales

Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.

Allen Ginsberg’s American Sentence has seventeen syllables.

Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

Essays and Stressays

Junior highers everywhere

face the end of the year

with term papers.

The rigors of research

represent the storm

before the summer calm.

Preteens’ parents wonder:

“Would home schooling

have been a simpler option?”

c2009 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Posted for a variety of prompts:

American Sandwich (3 sentences – 17 syllables)

Poetic Asides (April P.A.D. Challenge – event)

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