Earn His Keep Poems - Poems about Earn His Keep

...You use sex to live as a means to pay Attention not to mention evade escape Any responsibility in bills mortgage or rent Pretending to love like you are heaven sent You’re good at what you do......

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...Nature did not unleash her terror on us as it did with Noto, Haiti, or the Indian Ocean. We abuse nature with the stamp of leadership which impedes lives, causing artificial stampedes of ......

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...Ceramic smiles, Stupid ceramic smiles, Filling stupid ceramic bathroom walls. Tiles lined up like teeth. Lemonade words spit in lime colored ways, Across an ocean of tiles and walls. And someti......

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...In a crowded room filled with high society, and In the facade of decadence, plays the Back Street Symphony Winos falling asleep covered in yesterdays news A lone saxaphone player, playing the blue......

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...As told to me in confidence Many years ago, This is her story Which I write here below. I am a prostitute Not that I wanted to be Life was difficult For the household and me. I turned to ......

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...The bell rings out loudly, signals the start, must earn my keep through the pugilist’s art, my foe is a tall one, beats me in reach, to get in close my trainer sought to teach, where those long a......

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...Loss of faith as time goes by Heard the call of God on high Now the truth is chrystal clear Lies as passed from year to year Promises of streets of gold Mansions there are bought and s......

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...Panicked trips down the rabbit hole goes as follows, Far beneath the depths and hollows. Way before first breath of plaque, Meaningless so void and vague. Til death you see we meet again, Born t......

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...Bethlehem nights were far colder than the bright sunlit days, as creatures in the stable were taken out to graze. The ox, the ass, the donkey, and the mule were pastured out to earn their ke......

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...I doubt it was a philosopher, more likely an emperor, but possibly both, who first explored this sad relationship between exclusion and punishment, colonialism feeding repression. I'll bet ......

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...A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)... ready for night time in bedlam after swallowing me favorite dram, cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam. Whiling away his time playing solitaire.........

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...What if Alicia, Lost her Keys? Help me find them, Won't you please? What if Betty, Was never White? Never relax, Always uptight. What if Kid, Couldn't Rock? Maybe he......

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..."Salad Days" My days, I find, Are as full as I choose to make them now. I may opt to spend the day Watching the birds at play In my wobbly old bird bath. Or pass a smile Watching th......

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...The walls of this beautiful world are breaking by the day Raining shards of glass down like the suns rays Society is at a standstill, time ticking away An invisible enemy is fiercely at play. A......

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...Most folks call me XXXX I'm a thinker, deeply spiritual and love to write in rhyme. My immediate family is all I have left, the others died long ago. I walk my dogs, garden and cook, when there's ......

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