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The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's Lament
One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.

'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep

(So farmers left...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: treasury, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Prologue
Whether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...

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Categories: treasury, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Sandless Sand Castle
The Sandless Sand Castle

Let me tell you about my eldest brother.

I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: treasury, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thrill, the Jin of your Jihad...

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Categories: treasury, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form: Epic
The Miller's Daughter
A tale of greed, power, 
deception, discrimination and 
love. 

Miller, daughter, king—
All the actors are present
Except the small man. 

The king summons the miller 
for some reason. Summons a 
humble working man. 

Miller, shaken, scared,...

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Categories: treasury, fairy
Form: Haibun



Premium Member My Silent House
I.
GRAIL OF TIDES

from the brewing storm’s steeping chalice
the breath of death’s journey awakens in quiet tides 
beckoned by the stirring whisper of mortal winds
furrowed by stoic angels in pallid temporal skies
on wings they dance with...

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Categories: treasury, death, feelings, humanity, identity, inspiration, loss, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Have I Ever Told You
Have I ever told you                              ...

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Categories: treasury, love, marriage,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Goldenrule Dream Circles
I was one of ten invited
to play an ego-enrichment game,
to experience economies of mutual democratic trust
contrasted with Win/Lose politics
of privileged narcissistic lust.

Why?
I reasonably ask,
when each of these ten invited ego-systems
could be home in front of...

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Categories: treasury, community, games, humanity, humor, integrity, love, passion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Shape of Things To Come
I was a popular geometry teacher, imparting knowledge to the young,
Like the proficient translator, who is able to speak in different tongues.

I found shapes to be intriguing, for few things in existence lacked one,
Like the...

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Categories: treasury, dream, fantasy, imagery, life, magic, nature, teacher,
Form: Couplet
Spirit's Journey
Spirit’s Journey 
I’m sailing on the sea upon a sunbeam; 
I’m hovering on a cloud that’s made of snow; 
I’m flying on an asteroid round the planets; 
The universe is guiding spirit’s flow. 
 
I’m...

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Categories: treasury, deep, heaven, universe,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member One Velvet Evening
Tranquil, pearly moon arises, at the tangerine end of the memorable day,
Just like the ones we knew back when, until golden time was swept away.

Dressed up people laugh somewhere, very eager for a night on...

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Categories: treasury, beauty, eve, fantasy, imagery, memory, nature, time,
Form: Couplet
Government Largesse Courtesy Uncle Sam
(Tidbit of trivia: associated with 
businessman from Troy, New York, 
Samuel Wilson, known affectionately 
as “Uncle Sam” Wilson. The barrels 
of beef that he supplied the army 
during  War of 1812 were stamped 
“U.S.”...

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Categories: treasury, 12th grade, absence, angel, blessing, celebration, fate,
Form: Free verse
Unbound
My Beloved is lofty 
              and exalted
his throne sets in the crag
          ...

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Categories: treasury, caregiving, devotion, hope, inspirational, life, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Our Father Chapter Four
When all Zechariah's members were gone he and his daughters
piled back into their family car and drove to Neptune a seafood restaurant.  
Zechariah asked Mary the church's treasury how much did the church raise.
"$400"...

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Categories: treasury, abuse, bible, corruption, religion, , atheist,
Form: Narrative
Our Father Chapter Four
When all Zechariah's members were gone he and his daughters piled back into their family car
and drove to Neptune a seafood restaurant.  Zechariah asked Mary the church's treasury how much
did the church raise. ...

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Categories: treasury, abuse, bible, religion, , atheist,
Form: Narrative
Can Money Buy Love

Can money buy love?
Though money answers all things but not like love
Yet most have sold their soul for cash
And their conscience because of money
They have ensnared their Will with their words
Now they regret how imprisoned...

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Categories: treasury, parody, people, money, people,
Form: Free verse
In Case You Didn'T
just in case you didn't know,probably because you are an alien in your very world
you owe your altitude to millions down here,who endured the chilly winter to sky-rocket  you to the blue skies
an inflated...

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Categories: treasury, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 36000 Days
Several years ago I considered the aging question. I prayed that I would live at least a hundred years.  I had come to understand that writing was one of the things that I was...

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Categories: treasury, age, appreciation, blessing, celebration, emotions, family, life,
Form: Narrative
My Favorite Presidents
I have three favorite Presidents that ironically were friends.
Peyton Randolph is known as one of our first Founding Fathers.
John Hanson approved the Great Seal of the United States that is still used today.
George Washington is...

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Categories: treasury, appreciation, death of a friend, history, presidents
Form: Free verse
My Friends, My Faith, My Hope
My Friends, My Faith, My Hope

My friends infuses our time spent together
As musk from a perfume seller,
Time spent in their knowledgeable company priceless,
Positive demeanor, manner, sincerity, such bliss
Mashing my cobwebs with threads of awareness
Instilling vitality...

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Categories: treasury, analogy, faith, friendship, god, inspiration, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member He Gave Her a Book
"melliflous birds are still cooing in the forest of my amber dreams " (by poet)



a gift from my father - on the first day of college,
"Golden Treasury"...A book of poetry...
the first poem I read... "She...

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Categories: treasury, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Spiritual Thirst's Divine Quencher
October 6 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on John 7-8

Key Verse – John 7:37-38 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let...

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Categories: treasury, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
1mdb Walking Free
1MDB Walking Free

Talk about living charmed lives for some people in positions of power.....
The latest involve news of the latest appointments of certain financial  figures...
News about President elect Donald Trump's handpicking of certain people..
To...

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Categories: treasury, america, betrayal, community,
Form: Free verse
The Mind of a Christian Poet
"The Mind of a Christian Poet"
Let us look into the mind of a Christian poet
and tell me if you can, just who can know it?
Who can search out the depths of his mind?
His thoughts are...

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Categories: treasury, christian, inspirational,
Form: Name
Candidate -Calon-
CANDIDATE
that's my wife's business,
he will make it for you, not tomato sauce but grated coconut sauce which is fried without oil wrapped in banana leaves like pepes.
It is wonderful for a tongue that is saliva...

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Categories: treasury, art, conflict, culture, food, perspective, society, surreal,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things