Short Dispense With Poems

Tree sprites pour throughout
The woodland trees; dispense their
Magic in moonlight....

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When it comes to the reality
Of dollars and cents,
They say it's sentimentality,
They must with dispense....

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I feel like,
Laying my tears to sleep,
Letting the liquid,
Dispense and weep:
As a river,
Meets estuary;
And the water,
Producing sea –...

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can I tell you all
love is not to dispense
without forgiveness

I will be right here
I'm always empathic
love and forgiveness

12/23/18...

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NONSENSE
Are you understanding the meaning of nonsense
Life is the realm of the future tense
We can't escape our own time to dispense
Let's defend for our worst offense
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando February 21, 2017...

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1.  take myself less seriously
2.  act humble, not imperiously
3.  dispense good will like candy
4.  no more beer or wine or brandy
5.  drop the grudge—enjoy the fudge!

Fifth Place
FIVE NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS Poetry Contest by L MILTON HANKINS
12/22/21...

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The Valley
by Lanier Thomas

One
by one
I saw them
leave because they
Were hurting too much
For them to wish to stay
Yet I found God was willing
To dispense His mercy and love
While carrying me through the valley
Guarding and healing me with gentle glove.
...

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In day
       in which we dispense
       worldly needs,
       we will satisfy our desires
       with little ... little is what
       we need to live ...
       But for that fundamental is to be
       alive ... we can't
       abandon the fight for life ...!...

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Soup, salad – appetizers
  Cookies, cake – desserts

Appetizers to whet our appetites
   Desserts to satisfy them

But what if we served desserts first
  After the entrée, would we still
    have room for appetizers… 

Dispense with the appetizers
  There’s always room for desserts...

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I pray a  bright star will shine in the air

    O'er Washington to guide some wise men there

        Bringing gifts of commonsense

            And harmony to dispense

                To a nation that is in disrepair

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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Looking for lunch in all the wrong places,
Unloved, hungry eyes set in introverted faces,
There’s spirit there but only traces,
Hunting for signs of love from all races,
God uses people to dispense His Graces.
Where am I among these human cases?
One small step may be the basis,
Of many far reaching paces.
...Dare I.. ?...

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There are many who may take offense
At advice you may choose to dispense.
You won’t get in a rut
If you keep your mouth shut
So resentment won’t therefore commence.

For it’s best, when the moment presents,
That you keep yourself up on that fence;
Though if you’d been consulted
None would be insulted
By offering up your two cents....

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For the presence of
Self-fulfilling wisdom
And the sake of all that
Which is Holy
The Dear Lord break's Bread
With his disciples'
Some the Holy of the most Holy
Some the Highest of the High
To refurbish the coverant
Once again
That is in order to Resurrect
Jesus
The son of man
Then dispense his conciliatory
Wine as a tributs

GF...

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~~~
Ostracized
forsaken place
these bars of time
no saving grace
from whence I came
a fence I face
around and round
no end in chase

Just because
I said I do
I'm seldom excused
when postage due

No-one to share
I stand alone
to cheat despair
I scratch this poem
of matters fact
it finds no home
amid your care
dispense of drone
~~~...

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Love is the most common
Tree of devotion
And its' leaves' are 
tumbling down
It steams' from the mirage
And then dispense
At that time of ingestion
Falling,
Forwardly to the ground
And yes, their
Magnificence will be two-fold
To be blessed and
Bestowed upon within the
Govern domain of God
To the dear delight of
The Magisty,
The King

GF...

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If something’s made in China,
The quality might be
Below what we would once expect,
I think we’d all agree.

What really drives me crazy is
When they include instructions,
The grammar and the spelling sometimes
Need some introductions.

It shouldn’t be that hard to find
Transcribers to dispense
The how-to-guide translations
That, in English, make some sense....

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Years ago, when men wore hats
And women heels instead of flats,
Who knew unsaturated fats
Were somehow kind of healthy?  

When TV’s were in black and white
And folks dressed up before a flight,
Who knew that every deep-fried bite
Would need us to be stealthy?

When ice cream cones cost 15 cents
And pronouns didn’t cause offense,
Who knew with rules some could dispense 
And wind up smug and wealthy?...

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Kids learn by living,
Learning is through living,
Learning is for life,through life,
 And throughout life.
Train them to look up to and respect,
Train them to be fair and unselfish,
Let them respect authority,
Dispense  discipline in the right measure,
And with considered consistence,
Let them have reasonable expectations,
Of themselves but aim high,
They should be taught,
The way they should go,
And they will be well....

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And what is this?
This to which I refuse to admit. 

Uncertainty. 
Need of clarity.
Dispense my life from this 
Which is 
Unnecessary.

Hate. 
Love. 
And the line where these two meet. 

Me.
Stuck.
In-between. 
Uneasy. 
Cannot breath.

But you, 
Cannot 
And do not have the authority, 
The right 
To question. 

Let me be.
And you shall see,
Why you have led me to this
Which is 
The silence of 
The in-between....

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Exam day. I stare
at the students who pour
thoughts out onto paper,
racing before the dreaded words
“pencils down”.

I dread
the grading, the long
hours when the writing blurs
and everybody in the room gets crankier
because we are still
grading, wading
through filled pages like through deep 
mud. I hate that
it makes me think
unkind thoughts, that I am forced
to dispense judgment instead of
knowledge
and love.

10/19/2018...

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For the presence of  
Self-fulfilling wisdom  
And the sake of all that  
Which is Holy…  
The Dear Lord break’s bread  
With His disciples’  
Some the Holy of the  
Most Holy  
Some the Highest of the Most High  
To refurbish the Covenant Once again...  
Then to dispense  
His conciliatory Wine as a Tribute  
To re-affirm the faith  
Of all Man  
      
              
                                               Rev/Nov 21...

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Made up super heroes we're taught to love
Made up archetypes we watch get rough

We cheer on as they dispense justice
We've stopped questioning why we idolize this

As our heroes have become more brutal and more violent
We've become more detached and less present

We're passing our degradation of what it means to be a hero to the next generation
They won't be impressed until it's more violent, bloodier, the next super brutal sensation...

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Compost, Anyone
Miracle Man
September 17, 2023

Most of what comes from congress is nonsense,
so their approval poll numbers they don’t dispense.

They couldn’t agree on the winds direction,
and both parties are masters at blame deflection.

In agreeing on a budget they’re always unsure,
so they create this mountain of cow manure.

Always without the use of a Heifer or Steer,
but they quickly testify to being sincere.
...

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go out and distribute the gospel "the good news"
circulate the message about God's views
propagate, promulgate, scatter and sow
the Word that God wants everyone to know

be a part of The Great Commission
as a disciple of God, you have His permission
dispense, disperse, extend and expand
spread the "good news" to everyone you can

publish it, print it
exhibit it, commit it
the gospel, "the good news"
the Word of God
spread it, evangelize it
and take it to heart...

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Poetry is thought distilled;
You squeeze it and condense it.
When intent has been fulfilled,
You’re ready to dispense it.

Many poems don’t get that far;
They stick with their creator,
Unreleased into the world
Or maybe saved for later.

Those that make it take a chance
That after they’re inspected,
They will be forgotten fast
Or, even worse, rejected.

Poets choose their words with care
And offer up their wares
In hopes that somewhere in their realm,
There’s somebody who cares....

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