Best Barters Poems

What's a single mom, overworked witch to do?
School potlucks won't suck up fat vats of witch brew
Green goop soup disinfects science projects
Magic wand deflects coupon blonde's rejects

Soccer field congealed, frogs in fish tanks
Your warlock son mocks the jocks with dark pranks
Your daughter barters love potions,...

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Pride seeks
Obsession with self
Hugging our mirrors
Telling tales of our success
To any who will take a knee before us
But failure still dawns for this vanity
For even blind angels can find the gates
If they truly feel love for one another

Greed consumes
Refusing to bleed
It'd be a shame to...

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Light streams
Darkness dispersed;
Colours deliberate

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Dawn arrives
Calmly magnificent;
Joy feels vivid

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Morning permutations
Clockwork agenda rolls;
Memory and rote

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Tensile strength barters
Testing argument collides;
Taut tempers flare

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Moments of unease
Words in wrong order;
Conflagration attends

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Late night excursions
Unfinished business;
Graffiti messy enough

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Sit here and wait
Words missing voice;
No output now

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So many things to say
Intuitive feel ventures;
Words weave wise...

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Beauty smiles
Truth keeps watch;
Joy murmurs

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Jacuzzi trip
Clear water massage;
Aqueous healing

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Midtown moments
Sunny side up;
Poignant flavours

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Walkway charades
Morning fiesta;
Umbrella cacophony

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Old Mister Lee
Two years gone;
Tembusu memoir

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Such silly antics
Blindside politics;
Monkey business

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Glimpses of home
Michelin Star meals;
Vivid prosperity

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Dark skyline 
Thunder and lightning;
Rainy dawn hurls

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Morning outline
Lake shore rainbow;
Sun and rain

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Cat nap
Purrs dreams;
Feline fancy

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Brown squirrel
Zigzag...

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I feel somber and distressed.
Life is unpredictable added with stress.

And yet, at times; daily life is monotonous.
Blithe indifference to anyones lewdness.

Feeling dysphoric laden with despair.
Trying to hang on; why should I care?

Dancing with intrusive thoughts of a permanent end.
Sinking in quicksand my mind slowly descends.

Really...

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Morning delight
Fiery sunburst;
Elegant conversation



This paradox
Black upon white;
Yin-Yang contrast



Busy street corner
Each person alone;
Crowded solitude



Mall spectators
Browsing and looking;
Yet not seeing



I style a smile
To greet a stranger;
Sparkling sunburst



Valentine shoppers
Seeking to buy;
Love now barters



Leon Enriquez
13 Feb 2014
Singapore...

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Dawn hurls
Day in re-birth;
Touching moments


Light kisses earth
Touch of magic;
A new dawn


Daylight removes
Deep darkness;
Birdsong greeting


Waiting
Is over now;
Illumination comes


Morning delight
Sparkling beauty;
Nature reveals secrets


Sunshine
Postures anew;
Life's philosophy


Fresh ideas
Pleasant coinage;
Adrenaline rush


Words queue
Symbols transit;
Transient exploits


Fresh insights
Emerge and endow;
Humanity barters


Lovely day
To do nothing;
Just observe happenings


Take a break
From mere doing;
Slip into happiness


Leon Enriquez
31...

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Oh, to mourn the death of a season
Causing dread for the prediction of nature
Trampling through leaves plummeted from glory
Overt manipulations of human emotions
Barters the time of years gone by
Everlasting cycles of gain and loss
Remembrance eases the transition...

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Kites hanging on the winds the enchantment, simplicity ... warning swirling whooshing about amid the humble Streams in the Spring ... . Time jovial, patient Offering Loving thief it weeps ... ! Burnt down roses their thorns once bewailing the Cherry Tree are no more...

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it tastes like spoiled chunky year old milk
from a broken wine glass
left in a burning shack
hidden deep within a green forest
barricaded by a black haunting mountain
i mean my old lover's mansion
at least it was spacious to me..

and it tasted like something..

it tastes like he brought...

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Closer now
closer than we’ve ever been
as tyrannies anthem
drive us all insane

Closer now
closer to the grand genocidal of our history
this screaming civilian
barters a blood transfusion for economy

So much closer now
the dark slaughterhouse of all our love
it’s comedy of save me, sell me, give me, have me,...

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The search for the silver lining 
is often in vain
when seeking the light 
within the pouring rain.
Not all barters
offer gain
nor is there answers
for all life's pains.

To live within
and through some storms
is just a lesson
in being reborn.
Always reaching
for intangible threads
finding the right one
before we are dead.

Each...

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turning inside a cage
despair barters hope to seethe
wraith's beating fists heavy beneath
vicious growls a threat of means
the ominous promise to break free
baleful sounds from a fiend
inspire violent screams
jaded eyes weep in time to see
depravity’s push to crawl and seek
momentum winding tight to need
sparks fly for...

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~ (~) "Barters are made and bought... sold-for-and-sought-after; eternities light shown down-
from-there-to-here into-here-after... ." (~) ~


~ (~) "Because jovial now I know the truth, yes the only difference today remains to be the 
indifference I know we all-carry-for-all-things, empowered-and-entrusted to each one of us 
by...

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Every time John Bull brings the holly 
Out of the woods
I go where my poinsettias grow merrily
To see the fire glows
Red like blood in leaves defying
The winter's coming and the cold

Every time a spruce, pine or willow
Is cut down to carry shards of sun
Or rewrite...

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