{"id":100650,"date":"2012-11-29T22:06:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100650\/poems-recovery-and-shortchanged-disappointed\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T22:06:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:06:57","slug":"poems-recovery-and-shortchanged-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100650\/poems-recovery-and-shortchanged-disappointed\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS: Recovery and Shortchanged & Disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"

These were written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge<\/a>. Our topic this week is being shortchanged or disappointed. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

\"Photobucket\"<\/a><\/p>\n

RECOVERY:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


\nor LIFE IS TOO SHORT<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Somehow it seems that all too often,
\nlife is full of disappointments.
\nWe might have been shortchanged
\nor missed out on some annointments.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Times when things did not work out
\nlike we had hoped or expected.
\nWe then feel more vulnerable
\nand insecure, dejected.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Life has its ups and downs,
\nthat there is no denying.
\nBut it’s throwing good after bad
\nto spend too much time crying.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Keep your lifeline moving
\nonward and upward daily.
\nSoon there will come a time
\nwhen you will be skipping gaily.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright November 30th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n

\n


\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\"Photobucket\"<\/a><\/p>\n

SHORTCHANGED AND DISAPPOINTED<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

I made a reservation for a room
\nat a Hilton Garden Inn
\nthrough Hotels.com,
\nso it was prepaid
\nby credit card.
\nThe total cost was $95,
\na bargain for that class of hotel.
\nBut when I got there,
\nthey had no record
\nof my reservation.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

To get “verified” by PayPal
\nso I could bid on eBay
\nfor stock for my business,
\nI had to open
\na new checking account
\nand deposit money in it.
\nPayPal assured me
\nthat if there was not
\nenough money in my account,
\nthey would charge my credit card.
\nThey did not tell me
\nI would still be subject
\nto “insufficient funds” bank fees
\nif that happened.
\nAdmittedly I got a bit reckless,
\nand overdrew my balance
\nwith half a dozen too many
\neBay purchases for my business.
\nToday I got a bill for $150 in bank fees.
\nwhich wiped out any profit I might get
\nfrom the items I had purchased.
\nDisappointment.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright November 30th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n

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These were written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Our topic this week is being shortchanged or disappointed. RECOVERY: or LIFE IS TOO SHORT Somehow it seems that all too often, life is full of disappointments. We might have been shortchanged or missed out on some annointments. Times when things did not work out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}