Long Down payment Poems

Do I want to only look at new ones,
never been used,
or is that a too restrictive market,
too competitively priced
for virginity of place and relationship on Earth?
And, is such redemptively-intended virginity
an asset or a deficit,
in which...

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The Dark Curse, The Monster and His Act Of Vengeance Averted

He killed a loud squirrel, hungry hawk and silent mouse
Tossed them in a black bag along with six dead toads
By midnight moon took all to...

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driving our kids west . . .
our past life vanishing in
the rear view mirror

I don’t recall many details about our move to California. My husband’s job had transferred him two states over to California where...

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The 2nd reason the eldest remained exempt is someone had to see him as something other than a monster.To testify to his humanity.The remainder sans the baby could not as their own humanity was so...

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I have been counting the days and nights,
23,427 so far,
no two exactly the same
just as no two snowflakes
precisely duplicate a common design structure.

Having received over 23,000 days and nights
to get my act together,
this day, right...

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I once secured a mortgage loan, never noticing the date on the statement.*                      ...

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*For Carol Brown's Story Time Contest ..

My First New Car

I grew up a poor country girl living on the out skirts of town. We would move every year like 
the military form place to place...

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ETERNAL GRATITUDE

(Dedicated to the memory of my parents*)



My beloved parents,

Humbly,
Before the altar of your memory, I kneel
Wishing this little “poem” of mine to offer
A down payment of my eternal gratitude
For bringing me to life

Undeniably difficult...

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In my perfect world let me ponder my thoughts
And tell you what should be, a world that's not fraught

To live side by side all colours and race
Before we implode and forever loose face

Protect all our...

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commercials for cellphones
commercials for lipsticks
commercials for fragrance
commercial for a gas company
commercial for a golf club
for a car
for shoes
commercial for a cellphone
commercials for painkillers
commercails for a gun
commercial for the lottery
commercials about my happiness
commercials about my life
about...

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I wish to view an Oct sunrise in my hometown.
Riding a train to class and eating bread brown.
I miss wearing boots in my charming homeland.
Jackets and hats close to the September end.

Home ought to be...

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Saw the advertisement of a sleazy Volkswagen
Surfed the net as the seed was sown
For anything based on german technology
I knew nothing about car mechanisms
Except the comfort of conveniences
Yet updated my limited knowledge 
With its mileage,...

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In a few days, our country will pause and say, “Thanks, Lord”.
There are so many things for which I am thankful to God.
There is simply no end to the many people, circumstances,   ...

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Another twilight that time just before the comming of a new dawn
to early to start to late for the night it's already gone.
   Back into my past and all it's regrets and what...

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Everyone talks about money laundering.
I often wondered what that meant.
So I found out from a good source, the internet.
There's alot of information on the subject, if you just search.

An example goes something like this..,
 
What...

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By Dana Redricks 

"For while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened [often weighed down, oppressed], not that we want to be unclothed [separated by death from the body], but to be clothed,...

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A
beetle
contemplates
death- with babies,
each one, him reborn.
Fortunately, love's peace,
gives no yearning or felt angst.
Hell arrives, in a spray can's mist.
Instant genocide, heaven's unreached. 

Jury is out. Are we thought, chosen ones?   
Knowledge born, burdensome...

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What if the Lamb that was sacrificed,
decided not to pay the price?
What if they knew He was the only choice. 
What if Jesus didn't move his voice?
What if they looked for the purest source to...

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In the land of the free
What has gone wrong
From the thirteen States
Where is the song

The song that united
A people so free
From the land of so many
In downward spiral spree

Of resources so vast
In lands so spread
What...

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Walking Down To Death is a daily sorrowful walk into the darkness of life.

Where you loose all control.

The sidewalks seem to come alive to eat at your exterior as you hunt for your drug of...

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The optimal life is simple for girls, one pregnancy a year, from puberty,
living with parents and leaving the burden on their tired shoulders,
assuming twins or triplets, you reach a dozen children by college.
Graduate in three...

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"Intransigence: characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an often extreme position or attitude : UNCOMPROMISING"  - Merriam Webster

No money had he to buy a new house 
to come up with a huge down payment,
yet...

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Lie like the law
Witout permission 
World bron me
Witout please me

Sending  me to hell,
Wanna  me suolless
Wanna  me  with sound and soundless

Love rationalize reaction
Trying to rationalize addiction 

Walking in hell
Time will tell 

Life...

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In a time of bad conditions; you can hear it in the air;
And there’s a feeling of being emptied that leaves a hollowness in the soul.
       In those winds...

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Count First

So you're too cool to finish up high school.
consider that no one will hire a fool.
Count first.

You might be fine with selling fries and burgers.
Take some classes, sell some bigger orders.
Count first.

Before you cut...

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