Best Negotiable Poems
The residents will soon be moving.
There is lots of miscellaneous and
still useable items.
Some old growth redwoods
and fishable seas, some
breathable air
and unpolluted shores,
bargains galore so
don't hesitate
to make an offer.
All prices are negotiable
and everything must go.
Saturday, from 9-5, please,
no earlies.
Earth, the nearest cross-street
is Milky Way.
Time is of the essence
as we grow older we soon discover
We re-examine what's important
learn to value every moment
We choose what dreams are non-negotiable
& leave precious memories behind to loved ones
AP: Honorable Mention 2026, Honorable Mention 2026
Honor Your Mother and Father
“2Honor (esteem and value as precious) your father and your mother--this is the first commandment with a promise--3That all may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.” Eph 6:2-3 AMP
Honor Your Mother and Father;
Longevity is your reward.
Children must learn obedience;
Through obedience trust is scored.
Love is the only answer
To the teenagers of today.
So many parents fail to listen;
Prefer control forever to stay.
In attempting to control your children,
When strict obedience hasn’t been taught,
Is like trying to retain a deer in a holding—
With frailty is fraught.
Children need to be taught to honor God;
Their accountability is supreme.
When they do wrong they must repent;
It’s in prayer to God their redeemed.
Discipline not your children in anger;
This is ‘fighting fire with fire’.
Discipline your children in love,
With patience that they’ll admire.
For children to be deprived
Is more effective than pain.
Good behavior restores their privileges;
Teaches obedience has its gain.
Children need to be taught obedience
When they are young and impressionable.
To Honor Your Father and Mother
Should never be negotiable.
Ask God to teach you daily,
How to train your precious children,
So when they reach their teens,
They’ll not pose a major problem.
© Copyright 2012 Maureen LeFanue
www.maureenlefanue.com
Girl my business is your pleasure
A proposition to do whatever
Create a merger sealed with our hearts
That is non-negotiable once the pleasure starts
Cause I will kiss you here and there
This transaction of my love will declare
That I’ll fulfill all your wishes
Cause baby when I pleasure you I’m taking care of business
When I’m loving you, when I’m hugging you
And thrilling you with my kisses
When I hold you tight and squeeze you through the night
I’ll be fulfilling all of your wishes
You see your pleasure is my business
It’s a venture to what you’re missing
So baby when you feel that notion
To incorporate with me, I second that emotion
Cause I will love you from head to toe
The things I’m going to do, I can’t disclose
But be assured girl you don’t want to miss this
Cause baby when I’m loving you, I’m taking care of business
When I’m loving you, when I’m hugging you
And thrilling you with my kisses
When I hold you tight and squeeze you through the night
I’m taking care of my business
Copyright2008 by Kenneth J Thompson
Midnight's hollow streets...
Rolls Royce crushes cigarette butts as sinful, cold drizzle of animalistic desire
lurks on shadowy corners of locked buildings, for a price... negotiable..
Balconies bear yesterday's broken beads as a jazz musician is soundly asleep.
So much hard numbness in those easy to open bottles...
It rains over useless signs: " Do Not Park On Bridge!"
Skid marks end in despair...
A street light dies totally alone...
The phone rings with a grin looking for a Call Girl.
... Hello?
I tear out my heart and replace it with a wallet
Lipstick crosses boundaries of good taste so romance cannot develop.
I lay down frames with pictures of loved ones, face down...execution style...as I
pour myself a glass of Morality Suicide...I drink it before I let myself go for, yet,
another night of desensitized numbness...
Far far away
Solitary existence;
Lakeside pagoda
~~~~~~~~~
August going away
Bumper harvest;
Mangosteens and durians
~~~~~~~~~
Because she loves me
Moving commentary;
Grumbles at something
~~~~~~~~~
Garden snail
Crawling at my feet;
Doing your rounds
~~~~~~~~~
Show flat visit
Buying a new house;
Location fits budget
~~~~~~~~~
Lovely moonrise
Sends me messages;
Love forgets pain
~~~~~~~~~
Feverish flu attack
Body senses dreary;
Mental whiplash
~~~~~~~~~
Strong medicine
Moon dancing sky;
Dizzy focus
~~~~~~~~~
Bourgainvillea
So many colours;
Enjoying the sun
~~~~~~~~~
Bush scrub hedge
Nice array fencing;
Outside from inside
~~~~~~~~~
August rain
Wet ink stains;
Moving haiku
~~~~~~~~~
Motionless
Carp in this lake;
Calm in swift current
~~~~~~~~~
Secular world affairs
Conflict hammers;
Non-negotiable stance
~~~~~~~~~
Sit quietly still
Wait for word pulse;
No haiku moment
~~~~~~~~~
Images in a dream
Misty morning pattern;
Awaken unremembering
~~~~~~~~~
Goldfish bowl
Two swirling fishes;
Romantic interlude
~~~~~~~~~
Birthday sunrise
Twenty-nine today;
May blessings abide
~~~~~~~~~
Joy fills my heart
Sorrow is too great;
Purge now all burdens
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
29 August 2014
Singapore
I give up
no
strike that
I Quit.
this is not happening
no matter what I do you--
that's just perfect
lets blame it all on me then shell we?
oh I need to calm down
I'm over reacting?
I'm not even raising my voice and I need to calm down
of Course because you are so---
no I'm not being mean
no this is not negotiable
I am not being mean
I can not handle stupid, oblivious,----
oh because I have learning issues I'm the one at fault?
that makes perfect since,
I just went up, and asked for them in the line at the super market did i?
umm...Mr. God sir can I have an ADHD apple and some anger issue socked berries?
Right
sit down,
be quiet,
don't do that,
Put the book away,
get off that tablet.
like I can really control it.
I'm not doing it on purpose
I do not wake up in the morning as say alright witch teacher can I piss off to day and what kid am I going to make cry?
hmm...lets see I pick Issac and Johnny-boy
Self-observations
>>>>
I live my life through my poetry
I am the team of my insecurities
Living on the edge
Or Waiting to be held
I was taught the vital level of survival skills
Somehow, I fail in so many ways
My foundation tilt
>>>>>>
It has become easier to depend on others
For comforts, without lifting a muscles
Or turning on my thinking cap
I turn off all gaps
Maybe it could be signs of weakness;
Or a touch of madness
Perhaps a little of both
I never worry about my beauty
Because it’s unquestionable
I am so lovable,
But non-negotiable
To live by words, or to create my own language
Which I seldom do
To be the one who must decipher
U cannot stands alone or be written as just u (You)
>>>>>
Self-observation is self-multiplying
And self- reflection
Beginning with my low and high
Timing is everything
However, do I have the time?
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am a wild stallion
Tossing my mane
I can withstand the rain
Running for miles and feeling no pain
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am a female houdini
and borders and fences
can never keep me in
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am a woman
who pays no heed to the controlling nature of men
I am the wind that travels everywhere and no where
I am a fast approaching shooting star
I am a lightning bolt
who will quickly dissapear
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am a lazy leopard in the heart of Africa
Strong and wild
I'll leave after I have had my fill
My wild eyes so filled with desire
Are intoxicating I swear
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am untouchable
non-negotiable
Like a Hurricane I will crash over you
I am your deepest regret
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am a shadow in your hearts prayer.
My love is non negotiable
It comes as is
There is no bartering or discount
It is comes whole ,no damaged bits
There are no returns or refunds
Once it’s yours….you keep
So take very good care of it
My love does not come cheap
It’s not a short term item
To treat with complacency
It’s a prize possession
With a lifetime guarantee!
Once you have my love
It is yours forevermore
It will never be anothers
Or for sale in another store!!
The Magna Carta changed the rule of law,
That is, what the law was and who it was for,
From being a simple, dashing validation of the king,
To being about truth, reason and justice free-standing.
The Charter came into existence in 1215 with a rebellion,
Against King John and how he forced his will:
He could seize anyone’s cart, steal anyone’s livelihood,
Take their corn to dismiss whatever self-worth they’d tilled.
The barons and churches were given power:
Rights from illegal imprisonment and theft of money;
The church was allowed to worship and theologise,
Until John was not a legitimate monopolising authority.
However, church rights were only important,
Because in those days God was the small talk;
The conversation point and heartfelt social cause,
Such that religion became the concern of the first clause.
The Charter let ordinary people become,
Individual citizens, equal human beings to the king;
Saved them from their position as submissive servants,
Made them represented, and eventually self-ruling.
It allowed for the charging of taxes,
To raise an army of representative citizens,
Fit for the job of fighting and controlling,
Rather than simply enlisting those who were just willing.
Individualism as a pejorative term,
First appeared in the 1830s from the Owenites;
John Stuart Mill fostered and influenced it greatly,
Such that it's now a non-negotiable fundamentality.
Political governance needs individualism,
Albeit not as much as the tories would say;
Existentialism succeeded it and is implied by it,
Because meaning is your call and not the monarchy’s play.
There were many more Charters after that,
And they all specified the ordinary persons right,
To a fair trial and to state justice yourself,
With your imprisonment being your prison officer’s fight.
Rights and liberties pre-exist their enforcement,
And the original Magna Carta admitted that stout;
Gave people their intrinsic worth as human beings,
Created a people-centred land of devolved clout.
On a broken pedestal
Under estimate our worth
Run away from problems
Wishing for the impossible
Open to resistance, not change
Relish in misery
Self mutilation
Trust no one
Enjoy little of life's pleasures
Not negotiable
Energy exhausted on nonsense
Making mountains out of eroded sand dunes
Yes, you.
Fed Up (with the Shutdown)
Go to work everyday,
but I don’t get paid
MasterCard creditor chain letters
said I was a New America
debt slave
Was Union told the Federate zeroes
on my paycheck is retroactive
Ain’t got no money to buy food tho’ ...
guess I have to survive
on government
sound-byte fumes to live
I’m fed up with the Federal shutdown,
I’m sick and tired
of listening to Dem Republican clowns
Been going to work every unpaid day,
and I ain’t noticeably gotten any
Benjamin balm better
So weary from getting frozen wages —
I seek chimney heat,
by bitterly burning those personal
property auction letters
Was blue blot told the blank gray zeroes
on my pay stub is rebel non-negotiable
Ain’t got no cash to purchase gas tho’ ...
guess I gotta suck up
mo’ government
sound-byte fumes for po’ survival
I’m fed up with the Federal shutdown,
I’m hurting from hearing
White House noise by Congress clowns
Go to work everyday,
but I ain’t yet been paid
MasterCard creditor chain letters
said Freddie Irish me was a ***** Adopted
dollar bill slave
The masculine nature of man,
That's the 'he' in him.
The great super ego.
The drive to be the boss.
The strive to be the best.
The non-negotiable choice
to be reckoned with.
He is the architect of a home.
He is the head in a family.
He is the creator of workplace(s).
He is the propeller of inventions of awe.
He is the soft handler of females.
He is the nurturer of suckling babes.
A friend,one jolly friend.
A lover,one true lover.
A father,one intimate father.
A worker,one diligent fellow.
A humanitarian, one saver of lives.
And one more,'he' who craves for peace.
The balance of faith and truth
Is the security of no doubt exist
The life line of being created
Is equal to those who know
That all we live for in this lifetime
Is for knowledge and sharing
Both is lost when fighting is about
Nothing clear or even negotiable
To those do not fear a sense of honor
No respect and dignity for others
Movement of life expands overtime
To many to count and disagree
To walk by self is a wonder
Because of all thoughts is not one
But many, the unusual thing is me
I stand to feel alone
I do not wish to see the colors
Of all those unimaginable
I focus on life alone and I feel alone
But do I need to be is the question
I say all the deeds that I have done
I never ask for anything
But I have receive the pain
Of being mislead
I walk alone, that I feel till the end
I speak of deeds to come
Not those that have been done
I focus on my breathe
And never have I sought justice
Because of one misdeed
I come to faith and truth
And that I was imbued
A life time of sharing knowledge
Because of all the things I can give
Is free and not for money