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Rated: 13+ · Book · Contest · #1666661
My collection of entries for the Running on Empty Contest.
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#722247 added April 14, 2011 at 2:38pm
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ROE 2: Poem #1 - Temper Tantrum
FORM: SARABAND SONNET


TEMPER TANTRUM

Here come the tears, the water works,
Screaming, teeming with emotion.
Being a kid does have its perks.

When there is something that I want,
And I don’t get it right away,
My wailing carries some cache,
Without a reprieve or détente.

Desperate to avoid a scene,
You try to stop the commotion,
Lest someone try and intervene

I prepare another reprise,
While you think you have heard the worst.
I wonder what will give way first,
Your patience or my screeching cries?
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