Best Bartered Poems

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"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...

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bouquet of roses
a quaint box of chocolates
gratuitous love...

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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...

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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...

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Cherished stime
Moment sublime
Concordant chime
Regaling rhyme
Bottled time...

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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...

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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:...

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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...

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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.
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