Best Afford Poems
No, I can’t afford to lose you
In this craziness called life
Though the madness presses in
And I cannot still the strife
I can’t afford to lose you now
No, I can’t afford to lose you
Though I’m catatonic now
In the nothingness of thought
The need to reconnect somehow
I can’t afford to lose you now
No, I can’t afford to lose you
My yearning’s penned upon this page
Fighting all constraints of time
I reach out past my hidden rage
I can’t afford to lose you now
No, I can’t afford to lose you
Your words: a needed, calming grace
Weaving in my troubled mind
glowing wisdom I can trace
No, I can’t afford to lose you now
Not now
Not ever
No, I WILL NOT lose you now!
Eileen Manassian
Henry Ford satisfied the masses, we may all agree,
By concocting the venerable Ford Model "T".
He said, "You can choose any color as long as it's black!"
And he even tossed in a spare tire, crank and sturdy jack!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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OK, your turn Ms. Rix!!!! (Or anyone else who wants to join in
the Clerihew battle!!!!)
“Ladies and gentlemen, gather round
Squeeze in madam, come a little closer”
You fortunate folk are at the launch of this must have commodity
My company has traveled around the globe,
we’ve invested millions in research in search of the purest product;
which was eventually found in the atmosphere of the southern ocean
See this little can in my hand
It holds something so precious you cannot live without it
I present to you …
Canned fresh air
Now would anyone like to test this product - Let me open this can.
“Madam, would you like to try it -
just use the detachable face mask and breathe deeply
there, doesn’t that smell soooooooooo good”
.
In the event of nuclear war this product is essential for your survival -
You simply cannot afford to be without it!
Now who is going to be the first to get this must have product ?
I have it on offer today at an introductory price.
Each set of cans comes with a face mask, which normally retails at $3
It’s perfect for use by the entire family and a sniff at only $19.99”
Advertisement, sell something, make us want it
Sponsored by Lewis Raynes
3/18/18
I’ll go to some faraway place,
On a lovely, isolated beach, at sunset,
And watch the fiery solar ball
Disappear over the limitless horizon.
Look, the waves are rhythmically opalescent,
The azure billows changing to carmine red
And then to misty white as the foam
Dissolve upon the fine citron sand.
I’d lay myself upon a comfy hammock,
Watch baby turtles swim in shallow sea,
Or feel the saliferous sweet breeze
Waft leisurely over the windblown dunes.
Perhaps I’d languidly sway myself into a divine nap
Until the sacred drums resonate with native music.
The smell of finely cooked paella chicken
Would whiff into my nostrils. Time to eat.
I wake and fry a couple of eggs
In my forlorn, unkempt kitchen.
I can only afford a dream.
I'm sorry I could not afford
To buy myself a garden gourd
And had to settle for instead
A gourd which was bitter
Nor could I afford a red and blue parrot
Now all I have is a carrot
That's only colors are
a mean orange and green
And what about the lovely tan sail?
I had to settle for a pail
With holes and leaks galore
And could not hold any water in
Yet I call myself the fortunate man
For all I want I can't have
And it'll be much easier
To leave this world when God calls
Henry Ford mass-produced the Model 'T' Ford,
A contraption the unwashed masses could afford!
'Twas the latest and greatest to include a crank and jack,
And he offered a choice of colors as long as it was black!
Love she now can ill afford
And strength, her pride won't borrow,
She finds no crime in letting go,
Of dreams knit with her sorrow.
Her fire is but a ghostly glow,
Void of the will to try,
It calls out from her breaking heart,
As life goes racing by.
The heart though bruised is beating still,
And Hope bids pain farewell,
Discernment gained in battles lost,
Now reason for each swell,
To where does youth retreat with love,
When time has met with pain?
Does loneliness replace the fear,
And anger the disdain?
Met with morning each day finds end,
On promises anew,
With mourning shall each teardrop fall,
And bid them both adieu.
YLE
It can be a distraction,
That engulfs you with raging insanity..
A chaos,
That causes upheaval in your life..
A kaleidoscope of emotions,
Its made of blissfulness and battles..
Thats how my Love is!
Its where chaos and beauty co-exist!
What would you offer for a Love like Mine??
hider in the attic is a frailty
for an antitrust of when the world ends
a new name for genocide
born to fall out of love
beautiful mind says people like to sing and dance
and play house on mad tv
blackmailed by the death threat to yourselves from me
train the world to survive this funeral
in a kama sutra to replace war
society has been torturing me
keep the files on your internet you like
and start it over again with rules to the game
that didnt happen in dress rehearsal
Just because I had a job
Doesn't mean I was gainfully employed
Or could afford my college degrees
Or even to eat, to sleep
So working low wage jobs 2nd shift
Was one way to look as if
I was head above water till I got too sick
I too was homeless
But for my car
Which they could not find to repossess
Only because it was my last link to hope
But this too would be a rope that would hang me
I couldn't afford the car either
Nor gas, oil, parking let alone insurance
I found ways to bathe
At the gas station
the laundromat
Then off to work smelling clean
With a sordid secrete
I too slept with the deer at the park
Where a sign said "Park closed after dark"
But I know God's rules didn't deny me
Park or simple joys of moonlight
Just because the economy tossed
My budget like a salad
And I made a pallet
In the car homeless today
Car-less soon
But not forever
This too shall pass.
What was best thousandth poem you have wrote?
To answer this question much time did devote
Found that fewer than forty accomplished this task
Who now are sitting in sun and always like to bask.
So to encourage you, what should be done and I do
Making you full of much fame and one of the few
Who have ever accomplished such a great goal
And effort writing each poem hasn't taken its toll.
My total towards one thousand started to climb
And I know how it will take a little more time
Before I am successfully in middle of pack
And Soup will start cutting me a lot of slack.
Before my long life eventually is extinguished
Hope you discover my poems are distinguished
And by then you no longer will be quite bored
They are all for free and anyone can afford.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran
Nothing is cheap
Nothing is expensive
Either you can afford it
Or you can't afford it.
Such a simple part of life
Situational from time to time
To take the hard decision
To sort this meager question.
Rather than to try
Do something to cry
To possess the thing
Than to start the bothering
How can you afford?
Is the real question
Everything else
Is a mental conclusion.
Rohan Dhabade
Am Able To Afford
What I will like best about My Lord;
Is always there and am able to afford;
Meant to be,
For you and me;
Anyone can be a member of His horde.
Jim Horn
Nowadays we're not free to do what we like
Omicron is the FBI
Unseen and axists anywhere
It's a spy globally
We do distancing ,wearing masks,washing hands
To disguise and to avoid it
We cann't afford to be careless
Because we're blind in the mind and the senses
Whenever facing them
Maybe only the six senses can tell it's somewhere near
And obey SOP before it's too late
Perhaps it comes only to capture the "disobedients"
Does it
i could not afford oceanfront
a reassuring kiss from you is priceless
i wish that you were here
however your eyes are more important than a trip
i pray that both of your eyes heal from the cataract surgeries
if it were up to be, then i would go back to school and study to be a miracle worker
i would just pray your perfect eyesight back into their rightful place, and then off we go
no matter where we stay, the view is always more beautiful with you by my side