Long Death and taxes Poems

Honey. 
A question.

One?

For now.
Subject to chain-reaction change.

As long as we're clear
about our lack of restraining rules.

Quite so, dear.
I'm wondering about that line
"Jesus is the reason
for the Season."
What was the reason
before JesusSeason?

I mean,
Joseph and Mary
and their...

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Equal copyrights we can both claim
renown impossible mission to envision
just the experience to become linkedin
with literary talents of another motive
couched within these lines I exclaim
no idea regarding the specifics
how to kickstart joint effort game
undoubtedly enterprising...

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Benjamin Franklin said
“but in this world nothing 
can be said to be certain, 
except death and taxes.”
Paying tax may be painful
Yet our death is the singular 
Most feared eventuality. 
For us all, we know from...

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(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the humpback whales 
Ships piggyback them, harpoons syphon wind from their...

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THEY believe,
I have been naive,
somewhat...
and in the grace of things to come,
it may appear,I have overlooked some.
From what I can perceive,
my practice of non resistance
has required such persistence.
Granting reprieve
for karmic lessons learned
may have burned
some bridges...

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Pledging poetic collaboration...
(alternatively titled: putting
iambic pentameter feet put in mouth)

(Spanning across internet)
analogous to accept marital vow
(after blind date contestants
meet courtesy bachelor/bachelorette),
though each of us never met
mutual (of Omaha) accord

consonant with me... you bet
your sweet bippy...

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Ah, the Sphinx-like mysteriousness  
Of tomorrow. While not promised
An invitation to new discoveries and epiphanies
Zest for lifers, optimists, idlers all await 
With breathless anticipation
 
Tomorrow, like death and taxes, is inevitable
Auspicious. It's fragrance more...

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Speculations abound, on the news and Internet.
Doomsday prophecies, when the planets alignments set.
But I have my theories, that I will share with you,
might as well accept it, there's nothing you can do.
Twenty-twelve is coming, that...

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I have heard all your excuses 
I have listened to all your pleas
It is time to pay the pipers 
With the sweet tears of your misery
Ahh the suffering 
You have to surrender all your taxes...

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Knowledge of the universe, knowledge of good and evil
What is at the end of infinity? OK, infinity came in tenth grade....
Hell fire and brimstone scorches eternally for the decievers, 
nonbelievers and antichrists.

Second grade: the year...

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One day I may wake to find 
Something pretty on my mind 
Like the dawn, but so much better 
Smiling, it won’t let me forget it 
And suddenly, this day’s worth living for 
 
I’ve...

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Old fruit tree
By front porch;
July harvest

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A dear friend visits
Chat over old times;
Feeling young again

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Scary dream last night
Unhappy endings;
Morning aftershock

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Jigsaw puzzle pieces
Mickey and company;
Difficult fit

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Morning ritual
Early wake-up call;
Drowsy awakening

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So much stuff
Too much nonsense;
Not much else

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Temple visit
Prayers...

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"Bottom Dollar Disgrace"
With a gunshot style wink, he made a prayer from one father to another.
As a vagabond lied his way to pseudo rabbit foot's freedom,
This man could not deny the tables their monetary dues.
He...

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Listen up lowlife, I make greatness look trite,
Arrogance so far below me, I’m way out of sight,
The whole world’s something, stuck to my shoe,
Never wear mainstream, only designer brand new. 

Could not care less, weather...

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Only two things are certain in life,
death and taxes
You can cheat one,
but you can't cheat the other
Ooh, what would a person give to live
They would give everything ... and more,
if it was possible
I bet some...

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Death and taxes

This is what we do
Relax, take a break…..
This is how we feel
Relaxed!!!!
Underneath the shade tree,
This is where we sit.
A piece of heaven
Life, death,
All that’s left.
The never ending cycle,
And the cycle continues.
Though, somehow,
Somewhere,
The sentence...

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It was easy to admire such a pleasant mirage,
Her tasteful arrangement of complimentary tones,
With forms chasing functions on comfortable fabric,
To be smoothed with businesslike fingers
In total awareness of having my full attention.
And when we rehearsed...

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Memories are just that.
O how I wish Grandmama were making her fruitcake.
Standing alongside the entire time
With the understanding the mixing bowl was mine for the taking.

All year she would save all her dimes. 
So many...

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They can sense what the drones
are sensing. They can see what the
drones are seeing.

They can walk hundreds of miles
without exhaustion. Thirst and muscle
pulls are alien to them.

Priviledged and lucky they feel,
living without worry of food,...

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Someone once said 
“The only assurances in life is death and taxes!”
I’ll let you read the fine print, I’ll send the faxes
All there is; is death and taxes!
Watch me grind my sliver axes 
Watch the...

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The brightly colored houses lighten my emotions.
The cobblestone streets encourage by shaking the worries away.
A town on the ocean's edge, aware of the power of nature
yet at peace. Time undulates and ebbs with the tide...

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Death and taxes 
End of times
Life as we know it
Different today thanks to the Corona Virus

New growth all around me
I work in a grade school
Where mamas waddle in baking babies
Wombs full of new life in...

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I'm doing my best, at what I can, I've absorbed some
Life from boy to man, uncertain at times, now i find
Times are uncertain..' Much fear and denial while some
Are tearing the curtains.' The established fear-mongers
Peddle;...

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Inevitability looms like the imminent sunset 
Beyond an unchanging bleak western horizon, 
Oft illustrated by those “death and taxes” 
More certain than next blood moon a’risin’. 
 
The lottery of life assures the loss of...

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HAIKU MOMENT 13


Silence speaks sublime
Calm cheery content;
Primal poise profound

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Mindful meditation
Words stream succinct;
Poetic conversation

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Silence feels loud
Learn, unlearn, re-learn;
Each book a good friend

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Poise flavours peace
Seek beauty here;
Truth endears

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Earthly concerns
This and that way;
Too many chores

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Wants and needs
Clash of...

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