Best Waste Not Want Not Poems

Good times may not last.
Share thy wealth with tomorrow.
Youth provides for age.







Entry for John Freeman's Redneck Psalms  3rd place...

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Waste not want not.

 Oh the rabbit went and died. 
You should have seen us all. 
The news was  like a car, 
smashed into...

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Another trash bin filled with food
Reminding me of Society's strange paradox
Of how we gluttonously consume
And yet waste so much.
Ripping morcles from famished mouthes
Only to discover...

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Oh, how sad, oh how very glum,
Goodness gracious me prater comes.
Still writing winsome words of woe,
Endlessly stopped, never to go.
Oh God be, merciful to me.

Endlessly...

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She sneaks upon you
When you least expect
Beware, little one
No tolerance of disrespect

She will stand near
Seeing if you will give ear
...but never linger
The moment you perceive
Reject...

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She used second-hand water.
Water which had first been used to scrub vegetables, or rinse the dishes.
And poured it over her red geraniums with loving hands
Waste...

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Less than twenty-four hours after dashing off a poem 
   explaining why i wanted to die
found me experiencing physical duress vis a vis,...

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She used second-hand water
Water that had first been used to scrub vegetables
   or rinse the dishes
And poured it over her red geraniums with...

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Remember that old saying, “waste not, want not”!
Well from now on, gonna save all my kilowatts
Results so far
Are quite bizarre
Ladies light up when I plug...

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Times were lean but life was good
When waste not, want not we understood
In the refrigerator all leftovers would accumulate
Come the weekend Grandma scraped it all...

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Flour on her hands, and centuries on her elbow
Fingers balance a 'hand-me-down' dish, 
Roosting deftly on finger-tips, high in mid-air
Lovingly she spins it, magician's hands...

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Smelly Stuff Absorbed 

There are many words for those excrements that appear on the fabric in
incremental solid and deliquescent motions because ingestion fulfils that
autonomous need...

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Don't know whether

This is true or not

But i heard it through the grapevine

That i am the Taliban leader's

Favorite comedian

So much so they want me 

To...

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I arrive early for the meeting.
Row upon row of chairs
face forward, like a flock of sheep, 
nose to tail, waiting for a shepherd.

My grandmother raised...

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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVI - Tongue-Twisting Epigrams

An aborted foetus never stops growing in the mind of the aborted mother. She never tires of making more babies...

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