Long Vested interest Poems

they disturb, deep behind my sleeping eyes
  ......
  retune my tautened strings, replay my frets
  vignette movies spin reels of dreams discovering
  fresh slants on shadowy delight
  the foreboding, ominous,...

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kaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
  dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
  militarisation of memory and folly
  an Irish nation half-wrenched from a bloodied and wearied empire
 ...

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ARTEGOUS MADE HIS IN RING DEBUT
WEARING A RED ROBE
WITH SILVER RHINESTONES
WITH THE WORDS
" KING ARTEGOUS "
ON THE BACK. HE WAS ACCOMPANIED
BY "DYNAMO"YWINKLE WESTLING
IT WAS SAID THAT HE WOULD
HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HIMSELF
BY ALLOWING A...

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THE SERIAL LEECH
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


He Was Here Today Promised Pie in the Sky
But We’ll Soon Discover its  Just Another Lie
They’ll Say Anything That to Them Is a plus
But Once They Are in They ...

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"My decision
is not any negative reflection
on you.
It's not personal."

This would be a Business School graduate,
meaning, if it is personal,
then it is not political or economic;
so, if it is political and/or economic,
it is not personal.

"It's your...

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I sing praise to the home-maker,
forgotten hero of the world,
whose actions raise up good children,
whether they be a boy or girl.

Whose presence is there to guide us
in a world that can seem half-damned,
who invest more...

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You made a lot of money
selling lewd photos of nude
Then you parlayed your profits
into cyber surfing —  
triple X cinema porno crude
Nasty video sex business you were so into
Your vested interest was
a skin flick...

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How can we take pride in a country
that is sliding into dissolution and chaos?
We praise ourselves for ending slavery.
yet racial prejudice is still much with us.
We pay slave wages and refuse to change
the minimum wage...

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My vested interest is in keeping communities intact
My vested interest is in keeping some spaces green,
My vested interest is in keeping the fraudsters away,
My vested interest is in keeping obesity in check,
My vested interest is...

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PLEASE PASS THE SWEETBREAD

With sorrow tomorrow I will say fare thee well
As I be headed for the intestines of hell
A demon misdirected to be duly digested
While his fortitude and factor of fear is fully tested
With...

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When I become human being 
I stop seeking knowledge from another one 
As I know they are driven by strong emotions
And their every act is politically motivated 
Under each and every spreading hand 
They hide...

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With jaundiced eye* affected by my heart
I do pray for enlightened vision glow
radiating truth of Scriptures’ rampart
toward perspective against falsehood blow.

Confessing personal biases’ blight
with jaundiced eye affected by my heart
I seek God’s pardon from arrogance-delight
gripped...

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Failing the truth caused by deceitful heart
I do pray for illumined vision glow
radiating light of Scriptures’ rampart
toward perspective against falsehood blow.

Confessing personal biases’ blight
failing the truth caused by deceitful heart
I seek God’s pardon from arrogance-delight
gripped...

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Not all news of its existence brings joy – 
a heartbeat is denied the trumpets
instead, news is shared in long drawn 
out breaths with eyes that never dry. 

A vow was broken long before –...

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In halls of legislature statesmen rule
  by vested interest and inside rort,
and when last ballots are cast me and you’ll
  be no wiser whose allegiance is bought!
In jurist action lawyers plead their case
...

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My tenant body constitutes a lease,
A rented fabric owed to landlord Time, 
From smoothened silk to wrinkled leather’s crease,
This shuttled thread is bound in deed to grime.
My mind he stakes a vested interest in,
Its vibrancy...

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