Best Trade Poems

On Africa's Great Plains the animals roam free
And you can see them close up when on safari
Rhino, elephant, giraffe and gazelle
Lions, hippos and monkeys as well.

But they're all in danger from a predator called man
Who goes out his way to kill as many as he...

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To handle a bigot
  Turn off his spigot...

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Out-source


Work-force...

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He worked on the land, a farmer by trade.
He never will know the impact he made.

When plowing the fields, his mind would be filled 
with lessons in life he taught and instilled. 
“Life’s pretty simple” my grandpa would claim, 
“The rules we should live by...

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You hear about 
the Black slave trade
but you never hear about
the white slave trade
Vikings stole 
the Irish and scottish 
selling them 
for the white slave trade
Even today
the female slave trade 
continues in all cultures
it should not be
about colour
It should be about
man's inhumanity to man
As a...

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my love shines on you
a spiritual exchange
desire shines on me


give yourself to me
you can have anything you want
except your freedom...

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Words are the tools of my trade
a carpenter choses to use wood
with which great things he makes
my choice will always be words

Just like an artist, a picture I make
instead of using paint, just like
a bricklayer lays bricks in line
I make lines by using only words

Words...

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Blossoming 
Effulgent sun proffers love 
Clambering… 
My brain makes me wonder if you remember the times shared
Back to the blessed times, I recall that you would listened, be worried about me, and, at the time, you cared
We’re running out of time again…
And I’m still searching...

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Everyday is market day
But I rarely come your way
I have a glimpse of what you have at bay
They glow and glitter from your better ray
And so I will never want to delay
But hurry in ways come what may
And reach your trademark everyday
Let’s trade

When I look...

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Angels cry and so can't fly
when thoughts of love stir above.
And though desire burns like fire;
its flames are subdued by shame.

Veiled in fear, love draws a tear;
till crying eyes wet the skies.
So Angels cry, and tears flow;
as their pain morphs into rain.

Sad dreams, evoking extremes,
levies...

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"Headline news! The rag trade is torn to pieces!
Dolls are strewn across the streets with skirts lifted high.
Headline news! Markets are buzzing with voracious bees;
Stinging for honey, for money to burn. Sly.

May I escort you sir to higher gains? Just feed the slot
Machine coffers with...

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It's time for me to do Marriage trade
Is it what some call bride price?
Never mind..I am a merchant so i call it trade 
Barter trade system is my best 
I give you a living thing for a living thing
Slave for a donkey
I will respect your...

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my old sports car’s
fun, eye-catching plates

tossed in the trunk of
my new sedan

part of my joy
unrenewed. . . . like
those vanity plates


For  Joann Grisetti's
 Shanzi Poetry Contest...

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** A Very Memorable Christmas Present **

Someone made an err::
Boxing Day ‘ere’s 
Been the day of — not after.
What started as the greatest 
Christmas ever, turned 
Us from better to worse
As our tempers grew, altered 
After our fingers were slid into
Those gift-wrapped firm gloves of...

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Kissing her lover beneath sitka tree,
the Alaskan Sunset yawns languidly.                                   ...

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