Long Can you spare a dime Poems

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How do you figure/ life is temporary ...?
Are you too busy living to die...?
Do you continue to do the opposite of what feels right.?

Do you know what you were sent here to do?...

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POETIC LYRICS BY THOMAS L. H. ANDRESS



Hit the books...see stars ON MAR'S SWEET...ask Me!
Class is RIGHT or LEFT...or WRONG-TEST...don't Ask-Me!
CALL-ME...or...LEAVE-ME...ALONE...JUST...DON'T-ASK-ME!

Hit the books...see stars ON STAR'S SWEET...ask Me!
Class is RIGHT or LEFT...or...

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I have a Dream 
Four Score and Seven years ago
The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God 
With Liberty and Justices for all
Send Lawyers Guns and Money
Follow the Yellow...

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There's so much violence happening in the cities
making the picture of peace and harmony not look so pretty
Where's the light at the end of the tunnel?
As I hear a Brother in the night suffer
"Hey, can...

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Gypsy of the Railways

I march to a different drummer
My life it is my own
I'm an explorer of experience
That is how I'm known

I've seen snow in South Dakota
I've been on the Vegas strip
Had barbeque in Kansas
My...

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“Brother can you spare a dime”,
Was scrawled on the cardboard sign
When I looked at him a little closer
His face looked an awful lot like mine

I reached inside my pocket
To take out a buck or two
Inside...

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I march to a different drummer
My life it is my own
I'm an explorer of experience
That is how I'm known

I've seen snow in South Dakota
I've been on the Vegas strip
Had barbeque in Kansas
My life has been...

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(this write is inspired by the real story of a homeless man who found a student's 
bag with two thousand nine hundred dollars cash in it. the student was bringing it to 
pay his tuition...

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So young and newly married
Hanging on by the thread of love
Sometimes though in life we see
That thread isn't wound tight enough

Through the daily struggles
Most of them unseen
What happened to the newlywed
Where went all the dreams

Holding...

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Global girth seems to gain all the time,
Giants garnering world's every dime,
The rich grab all the pie--
Why the poor poorer die
In the world, piling wealth's when no crime.

Fine, lemon you find sweet is sweat lime,
Nor...

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Who's Got Time for Politics?

I had the kids in tow,
as I was walking out the store.
A nice lady with a clipboard
enquired who I was voting for.

"I'd like to help you out," I said,
"but I've got...

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The Soup kitchen's queue are in line .
The economy , banjaxed and dyin' .
When Lehmans went bust
The bankers just cussed
So now , " Buddy who can spare a dime " ?.

I called up my banker...

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Homeless, Mister, can you spare a dime,   
Been like this for a long, long time,    
Lost this leg in Afghanistan,       
Trying to do the...

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Sending foreign aid just doesn’t make sense
With American families living in tents
Just how many countries rushed to give cash
When into New Orleans Katrina crashed

San Andreas fault runs through our nation
Cross Western states, widespread devastation
Our British,...

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Brother can you spare a dime?
Brother do you got the time?
To think about me, brother can’t you see?
That I am a person, I do exist.
Even though I live in the street,
We all have human needs...

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The true love of your heart
Now where shall I start

Mine comes for ones that are lost in storms
Or for children who heart's thats been ripped and torn

One may even say I had opened many doors
To...

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Ding dong, hear the bells of Christmas.
Wind songs of the holiday.
How many bells are ringing 
How many bells are singing
A sad song that belongs to yesterday.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.

How many hearts...

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EARLY TO RISE (COLLABORATION)

Early to bed and early to rise,
So my mother said,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
So, come on, get out of bed.
Assumed if it rhymed it must be true,
So I rose from...

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I pretend that I am happy
When I'm all but sad
Pretend I'm in a good mood
When that's clearly not in my head

I pretend that I am caring
When selfishness fills my plate
When mostly thin I'm wearing
I pretend...

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 sijo with notes 

Although , everyone knew what was needed was a “quarter;” 
yet all we asked for was a dime,* it would have helped us move on.
My rich bro gave me his two...

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All you bums of the world unite!
Now I don't mean the fleshy kind
I mean the ones you see on the streets
“Brother can you spare a dime?”

That must have been many years ago
'Coz you can't get...

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I heard you correct

The first time 

All you ever initially asked for

Was buddy can you spare a dime

But thinking I am so kind

I pulled out and offered you

A $100 dollar bill note instead

Honestly I think...

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Beautiful people
Under God's steeple

Just reach out
Stomp Holler Shout

Let one know
They're Loved So

Inspirations Aspirations
Show Em Representation

Tell Em their doing a great job
Never call them a big fat slob

Lend them your ear
Help wipe their tears

Illuminate their thoughts
Help...

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