Long Frugality Poems

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Our blessing, our son, our family clown
The cracker of jokes, the soother of strife
Takes it all in, teaches us to slow down
Although he bungee jumped straight into life

Yes, when he’s ready, he can move so...

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We come to this world of surprises at a time we don't choose!

Not knowing if we'll get to a paradise or hell would break loose!

We are born to parents whom we yet have to know...

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Choose,
Said the fairy,
As she glared at me
With disdainful eyes!

Choose to be saved
And to live here forever,
In a Christmas globe
Or to keep on agonising
In a world which gives no clues
As to when it can open its...

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My body restrains my mind.
Logic as ecologically constrained,
naturally rational,
like rain does not fall up
unless I am standing on my head.

Embodiment also limits my mind.
Imagination often resists such sparse frugality of powers,
yet also thrives on simplicity
more...

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I will live in poverty again
I will eat less
Warm my home at 55 degrees
I will walk in thrift and dream in commonality again
I will tread gently
Walk faster
Work harder
I will face my tide of want with...

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If only you knew
Of how painful is the throb
That grips my heart
When I think of how cold you are
Towards me, Love!

If only you knew,
Of how powerful are the waves
That strike my coast
Submerging me in their...

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Battery (for Hyundai Sonata) Needed Today

Frugality worn by fiat generated
by alternate fickle finger of fate,
the plus side being said vehicle
parked here in public Salem's lot,
where I live with said diabolical mate

at highland manor apartments
penury run...

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FOR PROLIFERATION OF THE IMMIGRATED SOUL

There are those people who would not leave their country no matter how the trouble comes.
There are those people who leave the same regardless of loving home.
Yet, there are those...

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One morning, I had a cup of coffee

By the window of my hut at Lahong

Facing North. I let the air evolve into wind

From my mouth to the surface of the vaporizing

Liquid in the cup, forming...

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Prices rising:  the reality of this plunging economy,
thriftiness and frugality are greatly demanded
in order to survive, and having less to spend
is a deterrent to those once-easily-obtainable luxuries;
I have become very frugal, to buy more...

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                              - Summer rain is a...

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The overhasty mind gets cluttered
often losing concentration,
not doing chores or things 
rationally, but overloading
itself with unneccesary thinking;
it happens to me sometime,
leaving the car key inside the ignation!
Imagine my grumpy mood...
I get very skittish and to...

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O POVERTY!
You who paid a courtesy call to that peacefull affluence home 
With a diamond portfolio
And at your departure enquiry unveiled it a Pandora's box
That the son turned rebel against the father
And the daughter hearken...

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Nearly all things
pertinent to life
are dispensed
in measured
finite quantities
money
clothing
shelter
food
water
oxygen
even relationships
and our life itself
in precious drops
moments
of time

So, thrift in
nearly all things
is merely a logical use
of these resources
in appreciation
of their value
their basic
necessity
to our
survival

But even frugality
can go too far-
when...

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That neighbor of mine has been stingy as hell.
As a businessperson, he has done quite well.
His enterprise has been growing larger each day.
It has been that way since his partner passed away.
For the longest time,...

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Intentions fall akin to ashes on the pyre.
Of our procrastination quixotic fire
We've got a penchant for delay and distraction.
A puerile fear of routine and reaction.

But in our deepest hearts, we glow.
Time is a precious commodity...

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Radio blasting 
Loud music screams;
Intruding words

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Mental movie
Visualisation techniques;
Attract good stuff

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Cellphone outlet
Mobile accessories;
Too much distractions

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Secular world view
Greedy appetites ground;
Competition chokes

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Lunch banquet
Feast for the senses;
Frugality absent

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Temple visit
Ancestors await;
Family reunion

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Church Sunday service
Sermon on the Mount;
Wise Jesus echoes

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Late night...

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Lord,
I need not prove my worth to man,
By driving a brand new car.
For the one that thou hast given,
Still takes me near and far.

Lord,
I have no need for a newer house,
To satisfy ego or my...

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The fire has been lit there already
Having been started by the Gods
Eager, ever so eager to see their will

Fulfilled, as the sparks of it originate
In a time period which the human mind
Remembers not, so immersed...

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Polyphagia on board is forbidden and not welcome ---------- when 
Everybody knows that should we ran out of food ---------- crickets 
Probably will not feed us anyhow and most of us will ---------- cry 
Pensive...

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That neighbor of mine has been stingy as hell.
As a businessperson, he has done quite well.
His enterprise has been growing larger each day.
It has been that way since his partner passed away.
For the longest time,...

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Time is a thief-
a thief that steals dreams-
then youth-
and finally life.
Time is an enemy-
an enemy that cannot
be appeased-
defeated-
or forestalled-
only sacrificed to.

As long as time has existed
not one second has ever been
repeated or reclaimed.
Time gives back...

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If you eat Hoppin’ John on New Year’s Day,
it’s a sure thing good luck will come your way.
At least down south, that’s what they say.
In a bowl or on a plate, Hoppin’ John looks nice.
Those...

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There are frozen furrows in the Earth where
the plow made love to Terra.
It looks so pitiful in the dead of winter, with
no vegetable detritus on the ground to attest to any
kind of harvest. 

For control...

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I.

Do not wish to make conjecture about life.

as it pertains to me in so called "situational agony" 
my body has regressed and my mind vegetative 

Do not restitute or substitute joy with a heliocentric excuse
as...

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