Best Reimbursed Poems

The give and take in love should reach a mean
whereby the two be equally disbursed,
so givers' hearts would never suffer lean,
cold hungry hours without love reimbursed.

And those who take would never reach the stage
of ravenous and selfish, one-way traits.
Such balance would create a better age,
if...

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My eyes have not grown too weak or dim
to ignore what they've long been seeing
pretenders who wear a mask of disguise
like a skier who's not proficient at skiing

Everyone who labels him/herself a 'poet'
thinks he's composed brilliant words, versed
but lacks ability, and some of us know...

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suffering by the sentence made,
the pain wave breaks the surface,
the whips cut and the slicing blade,
the masters bloody purpose....

to be owned by the master,
and treated like a curse,
resentment burns hereafter,
karma is ten times worse,

time repays the master,
the next life reimbursed,
not blest with this life with...

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The Giver's Heart


Give 
and take 
in love must
be dispersed so
givers' hearts do not
endure lean hours without
their need of love reimbursed.
Those who take must never reach a
shameful stage of one-way, selfish traits.
Sublime, when give and take are equal weights.

Sometimes this does not balance out because
givers give...

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The Electoral College
By Franklin Price
9/17/2017

The Electoral College is outdated they say
Should never have been, and is not for today
They say that the people are not having their way
That the College votes wrong, for the right kind of pay

Do those people who say that, understand why...

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Life means I can talk to my friends and others,
When the untravelled sea fills with brothers,
Pleasure rushes the uninhabited areas we just don't sail, 
And when we semiotically emit our meaning, we will prevail; 
Freedom rings with resonance resounding and pervasive,
No need for more traditional...

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That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First" 

(To mesmerise people He needed a spell
and to wreak such a rune, His soiled soul...

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As my soul nears it's journeyed winter resting place
memories of past seasons are thoughtfully traced
footpaths that were traveled which gladdened my heart
grateful of the spring which gave me my start

Honeyed by the bee's attracted too sweet nectar
strengthened by the breeze of Nature's mentor
sweet song of...

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When I was a young'un on old Mother Earth
Believe me, this tale was surely an absolute first
She send me an old bag
Whose boobies did sag
Methinks this dude should've been totally reimbursed


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Would the Universe permit a small
Discretion... as I lie here cold and grey?
Knowing it be well within its powers...
To grant me one more day.
What would I do with such a boon
To make an Angel beam with pride?
Would I manage some small triumph
Before I finally up...

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A Statue... Man with umbrella
It was May in Lisbon had been walking long sat down on a bench
near a statue of a great Portuguese navigator, resting sore feet. 
I had earlier that day bought an umbrella, it broke in high wind
so I put it beside...

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The sun was newly risen above the Earth
His golden smile warmed amber desert sands
The grand landscape resembled barren lands
as sepia grains were slathered in rippling waves
That's what I saw through blurred vision
the hallucination of turquoise rivers in a mirage

This sea of sand was the color...

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“CPR is only done to dead people,”
   or, at least, I was taught that
    in an oddly-lit conference room 
at a local EMS center. 
The instructor would’ve had to have 
  used me as a real example if the...

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lender lends by
expecting return   
               
That is purely a
debt owed by the
other       
if reimbursed left
nothing behind
no future dues is
there
    ...

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EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM HEMINGWAY 


“Man is not made for defeat. 
A man can be destroyed but not defeated”
These words from Papa Hank are true as can be
And so to myself must often be repeated. 

No man ever spoke truer words,...

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