Estate Poems - Poems about Estate

This universe holds a legacy Bearing your unwritten name Stand up with passion and dignity And courageously stake your claim Stand up to claim your birthright For it is greatness Stand up to claim your heritage For it is outstanding Stand up to claim your entitlement For it is exceptional Stand up to claim your destiny For it is commanding This galaxy whispers your future But your own...

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Who’s putting up them signs everywhere, anyway? “For sale by owner” Seems to matter who owns what What? What does it mean to be real Desperate enough to spin the wheel To be a citizen of democracy Requires incredible sacrifice Usually blood and definitely tears The hypocrisy stops now With years and years of reckless...

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When your only home is your body a home that took a lifetime to build with your own blood your mortar bound with your own bruises brick by brick when you are cut and measured by your parents but still find a piece of fertile land on which to build your home and tend a garden with the sweat and...

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WINTER COLD ESTATE winds a brisk soar basks bliss frozen breezes cold sores naked trees blossoms ~ soul cold blistering winters winds challenges waves bright cooling winds a blow 1/17/25 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025© ...

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As I shift in place I'm in a daze Wondering for great maroon The taste of joy The taste of love I want the taste of you Your heart collides With shards of mine Broken as can be You mended up We say what luck And go on to be free Our eyes connect And...

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My father died or changed but I think that's the same thing Because the man he was still sits on my shoulders like a bruise Why did he do this to me? Why did he hand it over like it was anything that a child should hold? Why can't I put it down? They said poetry would help they said the art...

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“Truth a distraction” the media pouts Constricting those voices trying to shout Dumber than dumb brain dead by degree Digging new graves for the few — still left free (Dreamsleep: April, 2024) ...

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No estate should be able to turn away health inspectors, No estate should be able to turn away ambulances, while bleeding internally, No estate should need to employ so many muckrakers, or bush lawyers. No estate should hold so many water rights, if they pour cold water over journalists, who want to investigate, No...

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Renegade realtor dealt only with sellers sincere Harried under hammer results which rich revere Assured Lofty turned over listings like sausages Heat applied seared buyers, hankering hostages Canvassing coast, reframed aim purely at the top Invisible neighbour circular driveways, Dolce Drop Elm dotted uniform fairyland founded by botanist Supple carpet resilient reservoir, moist moss on it Initially entry point sat at...

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Where did all the journalists go, ...

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Red barn in the country sunny parcel of farmland ploughed field and heavy machinery at rest Chickens free ranging jersey cows grazing the pasture and the dog runs as it pleases Soaking in the sun horses within white fences overseeing soft hills with haystacks neatly bundled Two rocking chairs on the veranda swing hung under the porch on cool nights smoke billows from house Vestige of years...

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The special section in The Times, Intended for the rich, Showed real estate available If homes you’d like to switch. You need a fitness room or pool? A chamber for the maid? Six bathrooms and a terrace Showing Central Park displayed? Imported marble in the baths? A cellar for your wine? The latest in technology And elegant design? I don’t require all that stuff; There’s nothing I am...

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Advertised as an Estate Sale Which I took to mean Not just yard sale discards. Here are some Of the things you could obtain: Aluminum baking pans Plastic punch bowl Four segments of track from a train set Discolored tea-towels with embroidered edges Christmas themed throw pillow Velvet painting of sailing ships Flimsy dollar-store wall mirror Cheaply framed picture of Jesus A used tire with "free" sign...

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[Exasperation! who can love as this poet? A host to the heavens and bleeding life? Conferring words as exchange between God - angels and mankind?"\] How his body will end up in dark spaces and small places -- Palid, stiff, naked! Yes, jokes! I do make them! Ah! When I hear these angels speak! Ha! The...

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Items were brought from an estate There was even a nice pair of skates They were put on quick She did a new trick She was thrown through a very old gate...

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