Short Commensurate Poems

   My salary, 'commensurate with responsibility'

     A politician's ~ on his ability to rob you and me...

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Investing 101
Haiku
By: Tom Wright
2-8-2020

The reward I seek
is always commensurate
to the risk I take.
...

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As long as I still have ... 

Breath to breathe 
Songs to sing 
Words to write 
Thots to think 

 ... and poems to unveil, 

I shall attempt in simple nomenclator 
to commensurate this tale. 

Simply put.  Life is hell in a nutshell....

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Christmastime is coming 
Creeping as slow as clunky computers or considerable holiday traffic
Checking calendars compulsively, but no commensurate haste for the 25th date
Carollers' cheer will circumnavigate continents 
Confetti smiles spreading across city and country, contagious 
Could we cut away the caseload of peripheral days
Can't Christmas be instant? The Church bells chime...

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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Written: by Miracle Man
10-17-2019

Many people will avow,
to being risk adverse.
In discussing this point,
they often become terse.

if we can’t stick our neck out,
without undue fear.
We’ll be like the tortoise,
and not get anywhere.

Sometimes a decision,
causes life to seem bleak.
But risk is always commensurate,
with the reward we seek.
...

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Oh what a pity
that in David's great city
they built a skyscraping tower.
the which to describe 
my poor words lack all power.

Those who dwell in its heights
enjoy rapturous sights
of the noble city below,
where those in the pit
who look up at it
are denied a commensurate show.

Now who  had the cheek,
if you let me thus speak,
to call this 'the Holy Land'?
If its name had been 'Babel'
I'd be better able
to explain the way things stand....

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