Vagrant Moments
...Memories are expensive
spent on looking back
Unpaid moments lost in time
debts for what we lack
Overdue nostalgia
debiting supreme
Clouded statements left unrhymed
—mortgaging our dreams
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Categories:
mortgaging, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Angel of Mercy Please Intercede
...Angel of mercy please intercede
Weakest most lame specimen
among human breed
control of my life I willingly concede
wordless son of a gun fires off
following capricious poetic deed
done dir...
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Categories:
mortgaging, 12th grade, adventure, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Most Mind Boggling Mysterious Mortal
...Most mind boggling mysterious mortal
Mystification prevails stupefying yours truly
befuddled, he blindly stumbles along rocky
pathway illusory impediments strewn helter
skelter intangible obstr...
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Categories:
mortgaging, absence, angel, angst, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Muted and Alone
...In the poverty of sound
hides a final goodbye
Mortgaging the silence
with debt to decry
A tenancy of sorrow
with melody banned
An orchestra homeless
—foreclosure at hand
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Categories:
mortgaging, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Each Day
...Buying into the future,
without mortgaging the past
Each day a new indemnity
—a present made to last
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)...
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Categories:
mortgaging, time,
Form: Rhyme
When Will We Ever Learn
...Liberals with a credit card,
Debts they’ll never pay
Mortgaging our future,
The present now ‘in play’
Conservatives with a checkbook,
The balance no concern
Hope now bouncing downward
—whe...
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Categories:
mortgaging, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Barrel
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These days, you just gotta be so aware,
always on the alert ... busy looking around
Harm you might step into, so sniff the air ...
dog trouble’s out there laying snares down
Even w...
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Categories:
mortgaging, allusion, perspective, violence, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain
They Would Be Wise Today
...If Africans were enslaved that time
bought, sold as goods and maimed
carried away to work as ancient robots
they would be wise today
If Africans were colonized that time
harassed, robbed, some...
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Categories:
mortgaging, africa, history, satire,
Form: Free verse
A Christmas Message
...Money pours out the door as we buy presents for loved ones
and spend on food and drink three or four times more than usual.
Mortgaging ourselves for the next six months. Yet! Why?
To load family w...
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Categories:
mortgaging, christmas,
Form: Verse
Will We Ever Learn
...Liberals with a credit card
Debts they’ll never pay
Mortgaging our future
The present now ‘in play’
Conservatives with a checkbook
The balance no concern
Hope now bouncing downward,
—when wi...
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Categories:
mortgaging, abuse,
Form: Ballad
Out of Time
...Planning your demise is like
tip-toeing on a tight rope
realising there's no net
challenging a
speeding car and
daring it to stop
mortgaging your manhood
amassing liabiliti...
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Categories:
mortgaging, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Out of Time
...Planning your demise is like
walking on a tight rope
realizing there's no net
challenging a
speeding car and
daring it to stop
mortgaging your manhood
amassing liabilities
with no prog...
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Categories:
mortgaging, environment,
Form: Verse
As Swedish Lightning Enters
...As Swedish lightning enters
Renders day from deepest night
And (soulful) wishers beg
Mortgaging their tearful fortunes
For an ounce of pure spiritual bullion
With happy veins glistening
Truth, ...
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Categories:
mortgaging, appreciation, beauty, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Lotsa Limericks - It Couldn'T Be Verse
...1. Big Brother
Big Brother's protecting his mice
with a secret eavesdropping device.
If you hang up the phone
he'll just send in a drone
when a warrant won't really suffice.
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Categories:
mortgaging, america, society,
Form: Limerick
The Unplanned Agony
...after years of working &
raising the kids, whom both adopted,
ended up with problems that came from
undisclosed heredity,
the two had put aside a
nest egg, as so many did
in their generation,
growi...
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Categories:
mortgaging, life, care, care, life,
Form: Free verse
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