Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom Poems | Examples


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Let a thousand flowers bloom

‘Pon taxpayers a tad more trust, 
On tax kitty a tad less lust, 
Tax that dulls no young dream,
Gathers cream just from brim, 
Tax too shy to assume, 
Lets thousand flowers bloom,
A tax is no broom to clean dust.
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Happenings |04.05 2015, revised February 2025| 
Not that the greed of the governments would let them heed to this unwanted advice. But this ditty is still hopeful, may in case….Wish, it reminds them of what WB Yeats once said: ‘Tread softly because you tread on my dreams'…. First written in 2015, ten years later the ditty is still hopeful.

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