Long Allowances Poems

ITS ALWAYS THE MONEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


It’s always the money I’m saddened to say
Put your hand in someone’s pocket its time to pay
When it’s not the money, it’s a crusade
Or revenge for a crime that was...

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(Circa 1910)

Grandpa had a bulldog whose name was Tige. 
They were close – as close as honey and bees. 
If Grandpa felt a cold comin’ on –
 Well Ol’ Tige was the one who would...

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The most reliable pipes for house plumbing are ones that will persist for a...

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How come when I go to the fridge there's always nothing there? 
The kids they always clean it out and surely that's not fair. 
They're always in the flamin' thing and treating me old hat,...

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Well thank God they left. Nice local sports bar; I sat close to an elderly man, probably 80 years old, and a younger guy that was his son, as I gathered from their conversation. The...

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God really understands human frailty.
Out the dust of the earth he created
Adam. But out of Adam's rib, he
Created Eve. Dust they were 
Made of and to dust they did
Return.  And so will all of...

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He ignored the warning signs and moved carefully forward and backward

In the rocking chair of swept memories and went for a wild white knuckle ride 

Swayed but not faltering although he swung like a junky...

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Recently I haven’t had my mind in the right set,
had no relief from the anger and grief, 
a time to forget full of regret, 
swept me down like the Barrier Reef. 

It hurts not knowing...

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LAST NIGHT WHILE IN A RESTAURANT,
I LISTENED TO YOUR VOICE.
I WAS AT ANOTHER TABLE,
BUT I WASN’T THERE BY CHOICE.
 
THE WAITRESS MENTIONED LOUDLY,
THAT YOU WERE OVER THERE.
I ASKED HER TO SPEAK SOFTLY,
SO YOUR HUSBAND WOULDN’T...

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I’m So Lucky
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
Been working with a mate, building a deck round a pool
40 square plus and made of treated pine timber
Big job for me for I am pushing 70 but me mate
Well he...

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Ever reliant placid pilled compliant nevertheless undefined anarchaic fool fk clandestined anamorphoric clumsy apparentless undistinguished negiligent aforthought defiant scopic blind congenital aborted panoramic distilled coherent brain dead dynamic stagnant democratic fascist positive negative here now...

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It was a homeless old man near a shoe store who fell asleep 
He was so tired that nap turned to a sleep that was deep
A little boy walked passed with his mother and noticed...

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An Adaptation of the Poem “IF” By Rudyard Kipling
			When


				By Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd 
				Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd 


When you can keep your cool,
When others loose theirs, all around you like fools,
With all...

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JUSTICE

They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures 
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled 
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children clinging, dazed and frightened, 
their paltry belongings tied in scarves.
They...

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T'is politics where man excels, 
for it protects the lies they tell. 
Of pomp and ceremony he employs, 
voters manipulated like children's toys.

Wars are started, a game of chess 
and religion does so happily bless.
Sons...

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He would have dissolved the congress party
Would have stopped at once all its festivity
Certainly would have gone on hunger strike
And, would have, launched a blistering attack.

He would have wholly banned the sacred khadi
That some time...

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Enormous gentle beast
Equals man's compassion.
Each has powerful strength,
Ears that have massive size.
Elongated nose helps
Enrich all its senses.
Earth's largest animal.

9-18-16
Pleiades E Poetry Contest
Sponsor Kim Merryman

Note:
Compassion and Altruism:
Compassion is not reserved for offspring alone in elephant society....

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A NATIONAL EPIDEMIC

If you saw those lusty nasty faces, you see it engraved in their hearts,
Even those trusted public officers, no longer bother to weed the vice,
They plant the evil, water it in every season,...

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Video games are popular I admit
                    People of different age level played it
   ...

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Neighborhood

Dawn rises touching the hilltop - new light swelling with the smell of coffee and bacon.  Eyes blink away the sandman’s residue, loud yawns like lions, footsteps in pj’s resound on staircases – breakfast...

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That's not how the World Works
                     67.

I acknowledge your sacred mutterings
And the enthusiasm on which...

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I had the opportunity to observe the transformation of men into women.
 I had the opportunity to witness the transition of women becoming men.
 I have seen the Republic of Enlightenment allow minors to have...

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I have seen and felt that general allowances for the most part, host themselves to the privy, 
belittling the unaware... .

So it has always been I assume, inadvertently beguiling societies quest for equality as a...

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Dont tell me after all this while you still want a proof of my love
Look into my eyes and you can see the truth pure like a dove
Did everything to please you never sycophantic
And u...

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Nevermore, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet : Nevermore

(In this translation of Paul Verlaine’s « Nevermore » , I must say I felt inveigled into adhering to the fixed form by making some unnecessary allowances just...

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