Short Borrower Poems

chameleon's hide
                                       borrower on running spree
                                       lender in distress...

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The past is left in mourning,
the future still unknown

The present disavows them both,
not borrowed—never loaned

(Dreamsleep: August, 2019)...

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Sun Bank is lending light loans,

To it's Moon borrower,

Moon is not repaying,

Sun is not demanding,

But,

Issuing fresh loans in grace!...

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Borrower,
Borrowing appettite;
Increasing gradually.
Weary to live within means.
Handcap of saving culture;
Hand-to mouth disposition.
Lender connives with bailiff!

chipepo lwele...

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Never a borrower nor a lender be
That is my simple philosophy
But if the need you can’t resist
Borrow money from a pessimist
A positive attitude they sadly lack
So they don’t really expect it back...

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such plunder and tyrannic tutelage--a fraud, a fellowship's plague


08.17.18

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender....

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Collaborative Poetry…
give me a break

Words borrowed or lent,
the Muse to abate

What’s not in your memory,
what’s not in your soul

Can never be bartered, rented
—or sold

(Bryn Mawr College: February, 2020)...

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Methinks thou doth think too much
When such is life and life is such
Neither a borrower of others rhetoric
Nor a lender of the same be
Unlock the prison of your mind 
So that you can be free
Be unconstrained of human distress
Don’t dare dwell on your transgress
Instead go ye into the desert of your heart
And let the healing fountain start...

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Where there is a will, there is a way,
While the sun shines, let’s make hay.

When belly becomes a pot,
Troubles increase a lot.

Strike the iron when it is hot,
Just behave like an iron wrought.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For it loses both friend and money.

Review and renew your own policy
Plan all the time and have strategy...

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Neither follower nor leader but HIS
Follow to borrow, lead to lend means
Both take away self-respect  
But be what you ought
Aware to be sheep, beware of wolves.
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Inspiration taken from William Shakespeare's  famous quote " Neither a borrower nor  lender be"
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Tenth Placement
Contest: Follower or leader...

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Listen to poem:

Borrowed Words of a Denizen Soul
David J Walker

I admit to the
Plagiarism of the language 
I am still learning to use
Day by day by day

So often the meanings mangled
So often the thoughts tangled
In the confusion of emotions 
Seeking the freedom of expression
From the lips of a denizen soul

At best I am a borrower
At worst, I am a thief 
Investment in terms of endearments
Divested in unintended grief...

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NEITHER A BORROWER NOR LENDER BE

Because  lending to friend may lose you that friend:
If he cannot repay and feels indebted, his  burden is double:
How to be independent  is what  he needs to learn ;
And borrowing for myself discourages me to think of the end:
And such sloppy thinking will land me in trouble -
Thinking  there is no need to save or plan or even earn.

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Entered in Walayee’s Contest    FAVORITE QUOTE...

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A hair about a centimetre long!
Was it an eyelash
or a tiny piece of nasal ornamentation
in this library book?

Was it left here by the last borrower?
Or has she - or he -
found it, known it was from
the previous borrower, and ignored it?

How long could eyelash
or nasal hair
remain here on page sixty-five
almost defying its removal?

Or will a librarian happen across this souvenir,
blow it away
before returning the book
to its place on the shelf?


(2 Oct 2023)...

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