Best Borrowing Poems

A self acclaimed professional with incomplete training;
following a system with part-time understanding;
feeding a beast with little knowledge of an approach tactics;
are all shelters where misunderstanding is harboured and trouble, honoured.

Foreign traditions should firstly be digested before adopted,
any culture’s morphology without the remittance of peace and...

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Circuitous im sure
Who doesn't save to live?
Bet on the future
To ignite drive

let me switch gears
been idling in no man's land
Unapproved though prequalified (yarr)

Time to reside
but sentinals hawk my glance
Chance must be played
In a casino loft

Human rights im sure
To free trade agreement
What about squatter's rights?
To eat...

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I’m borrowing Jackie’s car tonight
I’m sure she would say that it’s all right
even though I’m not planning to ask her.

She did leave the keys right out on the table
and said I could use them, if I would be able
to just let her know about it...

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days turn nights all over again
the time we wake up is a life begin again
pursuing dreams; fulfilling greed
torturing our mind
coz all we are in here just borrowing time

lonely nights and broken dreams inside
faded faith and memories divide
we cried; we bleed from underneath
we laugh and love...

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We take a couple of pens from work
  A blue one as well as a black
A pad of post-its too; who would know
  Anyway, someday we'll give it all back...

'Thou shalt not steal,' thunders a Voice
  Midst fire and smoke, trumpets and...

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Fresh and new
Adventures to find
Skipping to the beat
Of a patterned mind

Follow the line
Never step on the crack
The crevices will reveal
Wanton lack

Free, everything is free
For anyone to take
Maybe adults have to pay
For Mercy's sake

Wait! I didn't agree
What have I lost
Too young to wonder
About payment...cost

..............shame

...........................no one, must...

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Cathie often borrows my t-shirts, my sweaters, and socks
But if I borrow just one of her dresses, suddenly she wants to talk
Wants to know if
It's real or a myth
As I flaunt my body with a feminine like walk...

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We couldn’t have a Christmas tree
Back in my childhood days,
Yet, longingly, on others’ trees
This Jewish girl would gaze.

So once the holiday had passed,
The neighbors tossed theirs out
And I’d collect the tinsel,
Surreptitiously, no doubt.

I’d then proceed to decorate
The shrubs around my house.
To me, they looked quite...

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For Elmer N. Koski 1901-1941

Grandfather, 
Might a memory be borrowed
Like perfume from another?

If so, may I borrow your sister's
Of a long ago summer when you were fifteen?

She remembers:
You made your bed outside
Near the living room window, apart yet a part.

She remembers:
You played an ocarina
Night after...

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Borrowed all of these
Melodies, to write for me.
Borrowed all of this
Time, to immortalize all
Of what is now left of me....

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To step back in time unintentionally maybe a slip of 
     the heart and mind          
     
But what of the heart's ability to borrow something from
  ...

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Brent’s Borrowing 
Written: by Miracle Man
5/15/2024

I once had a friend whose name was Brent,
whose paycheck was always quickly misspent.
He ‘s slow in returning,
and this is concerning.
He is never fully broke, but always badly bent.





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The silliest neighbors are getting on my nerves.
Always wanting to borrow a car or a snow blower.
Asking for money, and I wish I was kidding.
My dad said I should start asking them first.
Maybe he has a point.
But what if they say “no”
What if they stop...

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Every lingo does evolve,
We borrow words, I'm told,
I have croissant, pizza and latte,
Pen pal in Beirut, I might say,
I live in Woollomooloo, 
Where we parrot like cockatoos,
Now it's all English vocabulary,
Evolving to send overseas,
E-languages, you see!...

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