Meagre Poems

Sign on the line that is dotted

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They just want your money.
Just want your wealth.
Meagre or major they’ll take it all else.

Post sale and the manner changes in tone.
Commission awarded - it’s time to go home.

They’ll try...

A political issue

...So many lives destroyed by greed.
Too many hungry mouths to feed.
The rich blame the poor for being lazy and feckless.
The poor blame the rich for being greedy and reckless.

The wealthiest hide...

To foil peering moon’s prying eyes

...Oft resting under wooded trees
Roams she, hides head behind bent knees,
Adjusts her scant bosom rag, tries
To foil peering moon’s prying eyes.  
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Mother Dear

...It never was the Meissen that she threw
but dinner plates, of which we had so few
our dad would have a scar upon his head
and breakfast plate was just a slice of bread

The kitchen knife was bra...

Voices From The Swamp

...The voices of the poor and or poverty ridden cry out from the lopsided political swamps for help or some kind of meagre assistance.
Drowning in the quagmire of neglect from the rich 1percent.
Total...

Oh good - Aubade

...I wake again, the sky still ash
Mostly soft, not quite the weight of lead
seen at five a.m; that god awful flash
of knowing there is nothing when dead

Here inside a room, trying to recall
if s...

not a democrat

...Not a Democrat

Is democracy good for individual freedom
a year when spring sprang early
he bought horse and cart and made a living 
moving people's rubbish to the town's pit 
He was not a man ...

A Beaucidy

...In memories
I can remember 
The gardener 
Whose love
I cannot stop
Despite her
String cutting
Through transferring
A book domain
And she leaves me
Here wallowing alone
And I say I would lo...

Do know who am I ?

...Am I a shy monkey?,                                                                  No I am a primate,                                                                          I have round, large ey...

The Cold of Fear

...Cold is the tittering of befitted feet
Cold is the meagre meanders of falling fractals 
Cold is the twinge of bitter blues upon reeling retreats
Cold is the roiling retch of frostbitten flesh
Col...

A Rat's Prodding

...A wet patch of wa-ter glints
unusual! 
It was my ears that it re-flected, 
sand or dust or what-ever it wasn’t no more, 
got every-where; 
es-pecially bet-ween my grey hairs.

It didn’t matt-e...

The House on Lake Maggiore

...The House on Lake Maggiore

The house on Lake Maggiore was reality, a physical truth, 
my imagination became the artist.

The day has become  a deckchair, gently folding itself up
as my walk le...

Our Land

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Our land
—hardship reigns supreme,
Education
—not key to a better dream,
We tried to depend on our strength;
But alas!
The cost of living
—a burden that weighs us down like a heavy chain.

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All have a mobile

...Small guys or bigger, all have a mobile,
E’en tattered beggars… all have a mobile.

Social-media eager has a mobile,
Be they big bloggers… all have a mobile. 

Even a gravedigger has a mobile,
...

The Outlaw Ethel Slater

...This is the story of Ethel Slater
An anarchistic agitator 
She met her end in feigned humility
At a reinforced facility

Ethel, no more golden hearted
Let me tell you how that started
And let ...

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