Best Checks Poems

The brain’s a clever system
For keeping things in check.
It stops you getting dizzy
Every time you turn your neck.

Your balance is adjusted
With every move you make;
But if the signal’s off, the world
Starts spinning by mistake.

A therapist can teach you
Just what makes your body tick.
Some exercises help
But...

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Reality Checks In Woman Squash

True to expectations, dreams come true for squash talent Nour El Sherbini...
She came to Kuala Lumpur, she saw and she conquered all to claim the trophy...
Since last year's end 2015, she has amassed 4 consecutive PSA trophies....
More impressive still were the...

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Can you see the people moving?
Do you see them fighting?
Not with their arms and fists, stupid,
Rather with their minds and thoughts.

“Life is short and then you die”,
Thumps through a pair of headphones.
The owner isn’t smiling, rather scowling, or impasse.
I stay seated on my park bench,
And...

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A system of checks and balances
  Is the fulcrum of democracy

Governments write many checks
  But their budgets never balance

   ~ So how about plutocracy...

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Second, third, fourth... stimulus check(s)...
ah... the stuff a dream come true would be made!

Such would constitute,
the closest phenomena
approximating winning the lottery
cuz yours truly never blessed
winning sizable, nor
minuscule amount of money

beset with one after another setback
token scapegoat (no kidding),
plus puny size linkedin
with spindle shank legs
always bullied...

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Homelessness
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Nobody likes to get anything like this:
I always assume I deal with legitimate business.
I don’t accept personal checks when I want to be paid.
Getting those instruments returned makes anyone afraid.
Seeing “NSF” stamped on checks fills me with rage.
I get as angry as a wild beast...

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How finely grind the checks and balances,
the system that minds the store.
To delve into the lies and challenges,
oh boy, what a national chore.

11/7/19

Pithy Pome Poetry Contest
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Our President is not very bright
He paced his bedroom all through the night
So filled up with pride
He clapped 'til he cried:
"How does a Limey turn off the light?...

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Social Security Checks May Not Be Sent

By Elton Camp 

Earth to Washington:  What’s going on up there?
Into millions of people you are throwing a scare

We played for decades by the rules that you set
And now what we have earned, we may not get?

Of a...

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They tangle and they twist; wear diamonds on their wrist;
Their security is spying; and they say that you are lying;
You yelled and jeered and hissed; and now you’re on their list;
And with their time they’re biding; till they keep you down and hiding...

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Do you live your whole life
  in a half empty space

Do you swear up and down
  your excuses defaced

Do you sing in a choir
  where the music has died

Do you brand all as liars
  as your tongue remains tied

Do you rob...

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Green grass is fading...
Autumn etches its coming...
Waving leaves soon fall......

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Morale-Boosting Award 
Moves an artist forward,
Farewell to The Backward,
His perception as ‘Ward’
A new image of ‘Lord’
Nice creations onward… 

Fear-Checking Award 
Is a commanded reward,
Expecting it a horde 
Like a protective sword…

A spirit is lifted, 
Its owner proved gifted,
Future efforts trusted;
More jobs self-entrusted…

For Fame name drafted:
A...

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Do you live your whole life
  in a partially filled space

Do you swear up and down
  about reasons defaced

Do you sing in a choir
  where the music has died

Do you brand all as liars
  as your knots remain tied

Do you rob...

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