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BARTERED
By:Clement A. Chipande

I knew I was surrounded by inhumane perverts
I guarded my innocence with my entire sincere heart
I rebuffed snitchy men for fear it might get hurt
I sniffed every compliment for a stench of flirt
I did this for the dignity of what lied under my skirt
I focused on my daring dream to become a law

Categories: bartered, africa, child abuse, girl,
Form: Rhyme

Bartered

Bartered ?
Written: by Tom Wright
12/00

Redemption of man,
was bartered;
Our Heavenly Father,
bore great loss;
Sin's necessary price,
was Jesus;
Location of payment,
the cross.

Twas not three spikes,
but love,
was He atree secured;
Oh, what cost.
Without the bartering of
precious blood.
Sin has no covering, and man
hopelessly lost.

Categories: bartered, jesus,
Form: Lyric

Bartered Youth

Hosting my own cocktail party,
  I feel as when a child

Looking up, again I’m lost,
  among adults wearing smiles

I pour the drinks and carry trays,
  and laugh at the right times

But still feel small and unattached
 —my bartered youth in mime

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)

Categories: bartered, silence, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Bartered Wives

Lekker read...
"Bartered Wives"...
Still happens...  

Written February 17, 2013
Sponsor: Suzette Crous
Contest: Lekker!-A New Contest
"Bartered Brides" title of a book I am reading..
Form: Ellip

Categories: bartered, history,
Form: Verse

Bartered Time

Cherished stime
Moment sublime
Concordant chime
Regaling rhyme
Bottled time

Categories: bartered, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

Bartered Quill

Considering me a talented, aspiring shill
My muse loaned me a feathery quill
Brokering her wisdom, leasing her skill
With embroidered frills each barb with beauty did distill
Lithographer's vision, a graceful dividend to reveal 
Depreciating vane my artistic license to  bill
Hollow shaft gilded so her availing light can the vacuum fill
Inky reservoir with inspiration did instill
A deep well with

Categories: bartered, art, devotion, me,
Form: Rhyme

Boquet of Bartered Love

One dozen dead roses
A pocket full of red disposes
Fidelity, fealty their temporal wrapper encloses
Organic ode that nature's bipolar rhythm transposes
Trite requiem to all the brownnoses
A token gift that penurious love exposes 
Gone are the scintillating wax poses
The mirth, pageantry time hoses
Buried in the cemetary with Grandma Moses
Bring back the artificial supposes
To satiate all of the charming

Categories: bartered, introspection, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Bartered Romance

bouquet of roses
a quaint box of chocolates
gratuitous love

Categories: bartered, holiday, love
Form: Haiku

Bartered Rose

Bartered rose with ruddy hue
Blossoming bosom your beckoning cue
Carefully, preened buds fawning suitors with thirst doth imbue
With wavy petals you swagger and stew
Your well-worn stem with waxy scents spew
Blanched branches cloaked with frothy dew
Stalk bleached by caressing winds that blight through and through
Constant heat causes your languid leaves for moisture to sue
Every, fragrant secretion sings

Categories: bartered, allegoryrose,
Form: Rhyme