Haggling Poems - Poems about Haggling

Are all Numbers Dead

...Are all numbers dead?

He was one in a million.
So were his followers.
So was his smile.

Are all numbers dead?

The war killed a million
Millions displaced.
And millions in fund.

Are al...

salvation army

...salvation army

she wore purple because she liked it.
hanging stiffly on the store rack,
yellow goodwill tag with smudged blue ink,
was it a three or five?
she argued for three, willing ...

Dickering and Haggling

...We dickered and haggled the vendor and me
The price I wanted to pay he could not see
Fifty US dollars is my final offer, I said.
I’ll keep it he replied; probably until he is dead....

Kipling in Kanha national park

...man cub Mowgli was to life once more,
in our boyish pranks in Kanha Park,
revived memories of Kipling’s lore,
from early dawn until moonless dark.

that joyous kid smiled within our hearts, 
as...

Threadbare

...thin moon hangs in the blurring light
when the red tape of work ends 
day's end
before darkness darts onto idling pillows

a too slight shine to navigate the strain of living
wounds unstitched
...

Shabbat Mourning

...7th October, 2023. Israel.


“Shabbat Mourning” 

the War commenced 
with morning, rudely awakened,
unrest.

some say,
it has arrived, 
the biblical Apo...

Offer Deal Or No Deal Up 2 You Now 2 Decide

...What's fresh new delight could you
possibly

Have to offer onto me that I have not
yet had before

Or you have kept from me and 
in your locker left

So pretty please now feel free
to go ah...

A Murder of Crows

...Every day I wake up to the cacophony
Of a murder of crows cawing on tree tops
As the sun emerges from behind the hills 
They take to the skies in one and two, 
 Sometimes together ...

Obama's My Weapon - In Biden's Own Words

...Folks say I'm struggling
That I'm old and confused,
They don't see all the haggling
Which leaves them bemused.

My colleagues are wordy
My enemies too,
But my willpower is sturdy
As I'm all f...

H I J K L

...haggling a huckster’s horse trade
ignoring imaginary ideas of Iodine’s
joyful jubilant jabbering jabberwocky
kibitzing kickapoo kindnesses toward Kelly
lambasting Lilliputin leprechauns leaving L...

Suspended Transcendental Meditative State

...Suspended Transcendental Meditative State...

Temporarily relieves, loosens,
and detaches worldly weight,
albeit bearing heavily straight
away upon well balanced,
awk credited miniature oblate
...

Market Day

...Voices raised in merriment and mirth.
The shouting and touting of wares
Bustling busily through the crowds
Baskets of fresh fruit and veg held aloft
Weaving and swerving to avoid collisions
Some...

The Haggle-Meister

...Would you take a dollar?
No.
Okay. Thanks.
Would you take a fifty-cent piece?
No.
Okay. Thanks.
Would you take a quarter?
No.
Okay. Thanks.

The haggler has no idea how to haggle really, th...

When

...April 26, 2018 Thursday 9:10 am  A COMING APART OR A COMING TOGETHER


	WHEN WILL I HAVE YOU?	

	I ask
	oh, anything to get you to focus on us
	Think about 
	Talk about us
	but, the bait isn...

Baggy Elbow

...Baggy elbow
Whisking a wow
Flapping & flopping
Constrained by conforming
With ambition

Baggy elbow
Blowing a bow
Swinging & swagging 
Hung from haggling
With normalcy

Baggy elbow
Tryin...

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