Best Bidders Poems

a sample of rock
collected from the moon - -
bidders go crazy

for Carolyn's gemstone contest...

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Galloping hooves broke morn's peace in Soup Creek's Main Street
When Jimmy Smith rode in from Bar 20 his face white as a sheet
He stopped at...

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A BALLAD TO THE ANCESTORS

Like ripened fruits plucked from a flourishing tree,
They were stolen from a lush paradise garden;
A self sustained dwelling having no need...

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She flinches, shudders as chains tug at her flesh 
The ruthless slave trader and rapist whispers to the auctioneer
And instinctively she knows that it is...

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You auctioned my love
Because you couldn't pay
The price of keeping me
In good repair...
Too time consuming
Too hard
Too demanding
Too tough
And so you auctioned me away

You auctioned my...

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Given the astronomical amount of gasoline consumed world-wide every single day…could this scenario not be all that far off?


      ...

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I remember the day we first met
Those pinkish cheek. How can I forget?

Like flowers in spring that bloom
I heard my heart beat like drum, boom!

Together...

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In the shadows of an African flora 
embracing my title as a mercenary
a title with little content except the smoke fumes
from illegalised seeds
the red-hot point...

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Sponsored by Lowest Bidders

It interests me
that Hiawatha,
like Jesus of Nazareth before him,
and Mahatma Gandhi after,
taught WinWin cooperative peace
by co-investing in ego/ecotherapeutic justice.

Yet anti-Catholic
anti-Muslim
anti-Jewish
anti-indigenous
anti-First SacredNation
anti-goodfaith-trusting-inclusive-extended-family-cooperativist
Protestant reformists...

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A famous song in his own ear
Often sung enough for him to hear
Upon his being does the tune call
To make him dance just as he’s...

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What the Loo Cleaner Saw:

vicars' 
knickers

hippo's 
nipples

bidders' 
skidders

hatters' 
splatters

farters' 
garters

written 22nd October for Jan's Footles contest...

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Ambition breeding cold determination
Every facet guiltily held in jotted keys
Lurking making numerous opportunities
Pleading quick reaction seldom thinking
Undermining valiant workers xenophobic 
Yearning zealously among bidders...

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The Body of Christ has been mutilated,
Placed on scale balances for bidders, 
His blood used yet still in profanity-
Drunk by freemasons and the guilty.

The devil...

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pitter
patter
goes the
rain
upon
the roofs
upon the
streets
upon the
heads
of us all
walking
in the
west
to our
nearest 
grocery 
store or
convenient 
store
with our
common
human
thirst
coming 
from the
daily 
grind, yet
our own
exertion
here is 
absolutely
nothing 
like that of
the people
in...

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The fallen nest of life
whose straw lay strewn,
holds no bidders.

The ransacked burrow
...caved in,
holds no retail value.

The marsh land paved,
still resonates
through your cup of tea.

Twas their...

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