Short Arrears Poems

School work leads to thrilling careers
Say hooray hip hip--give three cheers!
A student's new skill
Brings success just until
The bill for the loan's in arrears!...

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dust finally clears
         lies crestfallen amongst peers   
               sunflowers worse fears
            nasty accident with shears
            fraid not ~ fell into arrears...

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Our mistakes are paid
in generations of denial
Old footsteps defaulting,
new judgments on file

The future in debt
to invoices past
tomorrow debentured
—arrears mounting fast

(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)...

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My wife and I lived happily for twenty years
Then we met!!! Ever since I've been in arrears
Oh for the good old days
Enjoyed my “being right” phase
Ever since I've become dead between the ears...

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Me and my wife lived happily for twenty years
Then we met!!! Ever since I've been in arrears
Oh for the good old days
Enjoyed my “being right” phase
Ever since, I've become dead between the ears...

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Me and my wife lived happily for twenty years
Then we met!!! Ever since I've been in arrears
Oh for the good old days
Enjoyed my “being right” phase
Ever since, I've become dead between the ears...

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Me and my wife lived happily for twenty years
Then we met!!! Ever since I've been in arrears
Oh for the good old days
Enjoyed my “being right” phase
Ever since, I've become dead between the ears...

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Mom mad
Dad sad

Cat spat
Yes, that!

Money’s tight
Dire plight

Work slow
Bills flow

In arrears
Dun appears

Extended date
Payment late

Credit score
Very poor

written February 27, 2022...

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The sun in arrears,
  its moon in default

With stars in foreclosure,
  the cosmos to halt

All time repossessed,
  the Creator has gone

Awaiting implosion,
 —that last singing swan

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Has the future made a profit
by selling out your dreams

Marking up expectations,
closing out self esteem

Interest bearing hopes uncashed,
wishes in arrears

Creditors loom, the past foreclosed
—tomorrow paid in tears

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)...

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Gaping open wounds that never heal 
Is this what is for each of us is the real deal
Sometimes it’s the pain
That in the end remains

You may think your heart will break
For what in the end will you make
Of this world of bitter tears
Look to ante up you may be in arrears.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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As my world crumbles around me
The sadness stings like a bee

As my mind fails to keep me strong
As my life seems to be gone

The loneliness grows tall
The tears continue to fall

As my hope disappears
The joy is kept in arrears

As my heart yearns for love again
The sorrow seems to be the trend....

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Wrinkles deepening with the fleeting years
Show worry and sadness and nothing to come.
Her starry eyed plans are now in arrears
And gone is the look of delicious aplomb.
Her world-class body brought whistles and cheers
Now hid under muumuus to old age succumb.
She works on her tan on manicured lawn
Dreaming of pageants until she is gone....

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A man and woman met 
in a moving passenger train
Fell in love they did
but both had long noses
two weeks they tried to kiss
but no way to reach there
both noses pleaded long
both tried grabbing chances
but no success within reach
let’s go to doctor for advice
and lo! surgery was done
and so were able to kiss
and kiss and kiss in arrears...

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Fond as fine can be,
Etch succinct align;
Embrace mystery,
Live that clear design.
Reach a deeper stay,
Allow clarity;
Prime a better way,
Thrill in sure beauty;
Unleash pure finesse,
Recall a sure light;
Endow a bold jazz.
Note that sacred sight;
Observe a glimpse clear,
Words confront arrears.




Leon Enriquez
17 September 2014
Singapore...

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Down by the sea
Soft waves call to me
They motion my emotions
forever calls to be free
I float with contentment
Abated from fear
They complete my resentment
With nothing to hear.
We are one with our bodies
All purpose crystal clear,
We pass through each other
Liquidating the years
Assimilating, accommodating
All life in arrears
The waters of our planet,
are made of our Tears....

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Full is the quiver when sharp is the spear
Be downcast in slivers, take a huge slice of cheer
Starve a harsh tongue; it withers the ear
Mourn with a river of tears
Shiver with joy and not fear
The man who delivers, lives in the clear
Good scriveners scribe in multiple spheres
Be a forgiver of those in arrears
Protect the liver from too many beers
Always give praise to the Giver of years...

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Romance to me is like a toy
New and fresh, than I enjoy
But as the months drew into years
Anniversary in arrears
Where did the love that once we shared
go, was it ever truly there?
Soulmate for some might be true
Not for me, old pal, and as for you?
If it helps you to hold that debris
Then who am I to set you free?
But for myself I know full well
From Her wrath, I'd rather chance in hell!...

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Listen to poem:

there’s nothing glamorous or charming
about being in debt
about being behind and in arrears
with dues hanging over our head

but somehow i’m inclined
to feel a ripple in my velvet
a tingling warmth in the caress
of being indebted to you

and maybe one day
i’ll hear you whisper
that you’re ready
to cash in on my debt



AP: 2nd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on October 4, 2021...

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I love courage fear and hate
 All Ships view old stormy sailors arrears endurance
 In adventure and life sails 
As the sailors disappears
 loving you Manatee so quiet 
He's in the galley eating squid seafood diet 
The Son and all the sins of this world
Our like an old seashell pearl 
Sparkles like in a diamond 
Like on the sand on the muddy shores


12/!!/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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I'm filled with regret seeing you in tears
please forgive me; I know you can't forget
the way I've treated you over the years;
I'm filled with regret.

I pulled the strings of my marionette
convincing myself, you spilt silly tears,
and ignored the pain of my Juliet.

Forever fuels frustration's fears,
and I feel as bad as a man can get
allowing my love to be in arrears;
I'm filled with regret....

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His memory is beginning to fade 
there are moments when he forgets her name
though they’ve been married for thirty-five years.

Through it all she maintains a bright charade   
because she knows, there is no one to blame
her fears. 	

Sometimes he speaks of moments long ago
frayed fragments dredged from time’s jumbled arrears
of people and  places they once did know. 

In that brief moment, their love together glows
through tears....

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overcome over fifty years
I have a dream, in arrears
we shall - shall we?
well - we'll see
fifty years later and
the Negro still is not free
tell 'em about the dream 
again Martin
tell 'em Trayvon - tell Martin

© Goode Guy 2013-08-25

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/august#Adjective
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin#Trayvon_Martin...

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On bus trips for seniors, we go
to watch a film or music show
with walkers or cane
umbrellas for rain
galoshes in case there is snow!

Arrive and we waddle 'cross floor
and meet our trip guide by the door
we follow in pairs
pray hard for no stairs
just walking dead flat is a chore!

The show now begins with our cheers
we sit, fix the aids in our ears
adjust them for sound
yet music's still drowned
by those snoring loud in arrears!


February 27, 2018...

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Pass upon me thus in silent rain
a frequent silver blush in dripping tears
silent to ignite, repeat, refrain

as washing pools of silent, silver years
mounted in the wells and darkest pain
a swelling of an aquifer of fears

mourning silk to lap and leave it's stain
while holding all the thunder in arrears
storm of soul and spirit thus to wane

upon the passerby's to look, endear
rivers bent on sorrow to attain
to swallow now, in haste, and hold quite near....

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