When You Borrow Money
...When you borrow money you never stay paid
Some lenders you seem to owe until you hit the grave
They become that extra bill you didn't want in the place
Trying to pay them back and not to make the...
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Categories:
lenders, anxiety, money,
Form: Rhyme
Blunderbuss Bongo
...Destruction, thy name is wrath!
By God, do the math!
Walk thee down the warrior's path?
Take a bloody bath!
Chunks of bodies broken?
A fight! To reason stand!
What hath Hell awoken?
O Hel, c...
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Categories:
lenders, absence, bereavement, blue, character,
Form: Rhyme
Lenders of Chains
...They came not with swords, but contracts in hand,
With smiles that curdled like poisoned sand.
World Bank, IMF — dressed in divine intent,
But behind every loan was a nation's lament.
They call...
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Categories:
lenders, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
ODE TO MONEYLENDERS
...ODE TO MONEYLENDERS
Oh, what designs can one possess
Lending succour to those with naught
Such desperate need one must confess
And how hard one must have fought
When courtesy has no more cur...
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Categories:
lenders, anxiety, journey, sympathy,
Form: Ode
The Fourth Reich
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Davos visiting prostitute spends her
unbeknownst last hours wide eyed
in a strange new World. As she smiles to her John,
a BlackRock Assassin, who watches his boss
approach the stage...
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Categories:
lenders, dark,
Form: Other
What a Borrower Saw In Lenders Eyes
...At first, Henry did not grasp a thing:
The look in Sam’s eyes at that moment.
Was it trying to some warning bell ring
And its stark rebuff reward with ailment?
In it Henry sensed, at last, full d...
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Categories:
lenders, analogy, business, fear, money,
Form: Rhyme
Cave Kellers and Dig Wellers
...Cave Kellers and Dig Wellers
David J Walker
Christians that go to hell
will have one
Hell of a story to tell
In the
Nick of time but no place to
Dwell among tent dwellers the
Cave...
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Categories:
lenders, allegory, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Tale of Two Cracks
...Tale of two Cracks
__________________
Farmers Heel crack
S C R E A Ms
Bountiful harvest
is no time to rest
From Farm to Market
Middlemen exploit
Money lenders squeeze
Scheme benefit ...
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Categories:
lenders, farm, pollution,
Form: Free verse
A Borrower Softens His Voice
...It is a business truth
And transformer of lenders into Ruth
Who have been infamous Shylock
Or a hesitant safe with lock ...
A borrower to soften his voice
And watch its magic
By far more hel...
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Categories:
lenders, business, change, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Longanimity
...Having waited for long after hard laboring,
Tilling, planting, manuring and irrigating;
Keeping stray animals away from grazing them,
Protecting them from dangers, as though, costly gem;
Treatin...
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Categories:
lenders, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Dearest Beloved
...I think of you more than anyone can know
During quiet gray mornings when all is calm
And the television news is blessedly off
I hear the swish of the light wind whispering
And hear the house's b...
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Categories:
lenders, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The Young Jesus
...The story of the young Jesus
Jesus was sceptical of his tribe as a trainee carpenter
he was lousy, could even make a bookshelf, he was bullied for this.
Jesus took umbrage and criticized the es...
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Categories:
lenders, best friend, corruption, father
Form: Blank verse
Starting With Not Sure
...I'm not sure about this
entertainment
divorced from engagement
issue
But,
consider the following
a hypothesis,
a Thought Experiment
in the Indigenous MotherLand
and SacredWaters
of ecowom...
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Categories:
lenders, engagement, health, language, math,
Form: Political Verse
Lending Calendars
...Calendars
Like bank lenders
Lending date products
Per head all in spread
Again and again
Since birth to death
Say life time
Once in a year
Quarter day in success
In Four years a day i...
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Categories:
lenders, creation, giving,
Form: Free verse
When I Grow Up
...When I grow up, I want to be
President of my country
Or maybe I'll be a public defender
To fight injustice, and predatory lenders
Perhaps a doctor without borders I'll be
Saving lives...
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Categories:
lenders, career, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
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