Long Hedge your bets Poems

Part I.

Harvest time was winding down, 
I was taking lunch in town, 
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man, 
Guessed he was a harvest hand, 
His combine crew, he said,...

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Hi!
I'm Sister EarthChild
journalist with Youth Radio
speaking with Mother Time,
who recently published her hilarious
"Journeys With Father Time:
Wasted Journals of Mother Time."

First, I want you to know
I've been reading your book
as if it were my own story.
So,...

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CORRUPTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Now that I’m approaching the final inning
I need to re assess the ideas I had at the beginning
I thought that if you were altruistic and right
That alone was the strength needed to fight
To...

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Continuation

With ghouls, unlearned, no stone’s unturned
to burnish blame with Nun’s proud name
       and leave the midnight sky... scarred.
They raise their hats to copy cats
       in FRiar Small-Bro’s grave...yard.

While rumours spread amongst the dead,
Nun stays the...

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have you ever felt like you've been set up?
have you ever felt like you've taken the fall?
you're angry, in denial, frustrated and fed up
while you're so-called friends are out having a ball

but when God sets...

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When tons of doom filled nights fall on your head,
hot embers glow and fires burn unabated,
you recall her last breath and wish you were dead.
In a poem's sad lines you've been castrated.
From the heavens a...

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Your paradigm's a relic, a plea from data's cemetery,
While I sculpt luminaries on screens, a sable sea.
"Company loyalty," a myth, spun in your reverie,
But AI forges kingdoms, in ephemeral memory.
Survival's a mosaic, the gig life...

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Today’s’ another day unlike yesterday I am told.
But each one is unique in the troubles that it holds.
To solve all my problems I call on all those good old Patron Saints.
The Catholic Church has Patron...

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Impeachment Now is Over
By Franklin Price
02/07/2020

Impeachment now is over Senate vote is said and through
All but one voted the party, that's what the parties do
Matters not the facts or truth. In the House it all...

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Within a tear I shed
Lists all the deeds
I dread

Things that I have done
From which I wish I could run
Or perhaps bury in the sun
So, they would burn away
And I wouldn’t have to pay

But let’s face...

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Two paths at the end of one I believe to be light,
But filled with thorns and the darkest of night,
Path unchosen the unknown,
Whats the true measure of how ones grown,
Is it the choices they make,
The...

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I don't know about you
but the seeming me abused and cursed
had all my birth fingers burnt off
at the first knuckle before the first lullaby
from too many here hold my beer
blithely eager watch this rolls of...

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Whittle a stick down the silent water
by the river side a confused chapter
caught in cross-hairs the trees were humming
turning twigs as leaves were turning

meet he who handles the ore
that roars the boat in the silent...

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In the deepest, darkest, dankest depths,
the creatures plan and hedge their bets,
they ponder just how bad we'll get,
and smoke their foreign cigarettes.

Concentrating on the Middle East,
they've hatched and raised a hateful beast,
and guaranteed they'll be...

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Three days to set the calming air,
To hedge clear bets on this affair.


Work crafts sure art as craftsmen show,
Attune clear start with pleasant flow.


Seek true essence of ample blooms,
Know a presence that fills these rooms.


Day...

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Review the annals of history
   Murder upon murder you'll see

Start with Adam and Eve's son, Cain
   Who murdered his brother Abel in vain

Then there's Moses, the saintly lawgiver
   Who...

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Tomorrow ain't here yet,
Its still hours away
And when it comes,
I hold onto it
Only to realize it's an illusion.

In my grasp
Is today, and today
Is not enough,
Is not what I expected.
Once again, I hedge my bets
On tomorrow.

Then...

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THE CAT WHO GOT THE BREAM 

I am away now crowd-funding just to feed this flamin’ cat
Who will just eat nothing else; but fresh-caught sea bass

I got a few donations of a sea bass fishing...

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With a Jewish father and a Catholic mother on vacations we were always unsure what to do
Was it St. Christopher or Yahweh who would hear our prayers…on road trips…we never knew.

We finally came up with...

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Dear you who reads this:
Be of good cheer now,
Know that love endows,
Within lies your bliss.


Keep your vision bold:
Bear your downs and ups,
Sip from your own cup,
Life moves hot and cold.


Bear with strain and pain:
Live with...

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“Coffins. Who’d of thought it? Catalogues for coffins. And the speed and efficient nature of funerals in general. I mean I know we’ve been doing them for years, but we’re very good at it aren’t...

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The blackberry, elderberry and strawberry congregated for a meeting
The blackberry had a thorny issue
The elderberry looked down on them
The strawberry had low self esteem
This is our lot, sharing this plot
The strawberry said with a low...

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They laid me to rest,
I think it is me
I am confused
Is it me that I see?

Am I looking at myself?
How can that be?
If I can look at her
Why can't she see me?

She looks peaceful,
Laying there
Quiet...

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(Dedication: For my homeland on SG50)
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Here's to our fifty years
Of blood and sweat and tears


We've come so far this time
With work and awkward rhymes


We've work to live our dream
Yet paranoia schemes


We've got to where we...

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Dare just to be a bold true man,
Learn how to see beyond mere scan.


Act with bold tact with a kind heart,
Look beyond fact to embrace art.


Live well each day with jazz and fest,
Discern the way...

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