Short Haves Poems

got to have tough skin
and a heart of steel
because everyone haves a weapon
with a blade you don't want to feel...

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the haves and have nots
each has what other has not ~
yet they both know not

11-April-2022...

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The more I let go of
these tiresome soul struggles,
the should haves,
the should bes, 
the more it is possible,
to be messy and
alive....

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Down in the dumpster 
Life is so unfair
Why the haves gotta
Look down on the nots

There's enough pies for everyone
To take a piece and survive...

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No one likes them much

we must use them at least once

tears are prevalent

although some are not quite sad

Goodbyes are always must haves...

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it is easy to speak of love, light and bliss
when one has somehow imbibed grace
but have we so soon already forgotten 
erst days of darkness in life’s rat race...

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every four years  (the american election campaign sonata)

haves: knock knock.

have-nots: who’s there?

haves: orange.

have-nots: orange who?

haves: orange ya ready for more of the same?...

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two worlds colliding
worlds of the "haves" and "have-nots"
life seen from both sides

some struggle to live
others take it for granted
mankind's history


Barbara Gorelick...

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Paradox


The have-not try to hide the holes in drapes
to cover best their naked body
While the haves pay in huge to pierce and cut
their designer clothes to arouse curiosity!


13th November 2016...

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The Democrat party,
  all masters and slaves

G.O.P. left in tatters,
  their promises frayed

Haves lie to the have nots
  bright futures a whim

As the dragon’s fire burns
  —the thick with the thin

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2016)...

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I feel my fingertips
pierce my skin
as i try to rip my head in half
Haves or stomach knot
Grit my teeth
until i taste clot
Oh words take my dark words to
a place of light
make the gentle softer
Lose within m l ys in elf e
Showing self that is not mine...

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Haves and have-nots, but who’s asking
Heart thirst unquenchable 
Bliss throbs anoint us as the king
Vibrant is-ness stable

Exit game of shadows
Divine blessings endows
As bliss magnetism grows

Narrow thought slots 
Haves and have-nots

28-October-2021
Quietus ...

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Break down all walls.
Break down all boundaries.
The whole world is a country
where we live.

We are the citizens of one country named Earth.
All are equal here- men and women,
the haves and the have-nots.
Our king is our God, only who knows
how to judge equally.

Break down all walls.
Let us live in a border-less human country....

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good old dead Rutherford B Haves
most do not know he was president
his name is not famous like Lincoln or Kennedy
because he was not assassinated probably

But he could be famous for one thing
He was the first president to allow a phone into the White House
His phone number is so easy, you may be able to remember it.
It was 1....

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have I the right
to think all things are 
products of conditions

past or present
in which direction
does the real self lie

how much of what 
we create will be
our descendants' must-haves

ever seeking
meaning and purpose
will it be worth the price

change will make us
we will produce change
which will be the most true...

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in spite of them so
those idiosyncrasies
strange usual HAVES
~
mannerism OF traits
YET eccentric peculiar
strong behavior quirks
~
ways of behaving
eccentricity METHOD
 mannerism SHOWING
~
so peculiar traits
those idiosyncrasies
affective distend

1/25/2024
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Regrets

Deep down 
The regrets makes holes inside of me
They plunges into my veins and blood
Causes me to choke more than winter's cough
The body of mine is not anymore healthy
The regrets haves caused my parts to malfunction
My emotions are not mine anymore dear
They are devoted to griefs and regrets
Deep down
I am not the same person !...

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ghastly gluttony 

one of seven deadly sins
with appalling good reasons

total self disrespect 
abusing one's own body
that wonderful mechanism

no remorse no thought
millions starving and dying

balancing haves and have nots



Submitted on October 22, 2018 for contest ONE OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS sponsored by EDWARD IBEH  -  RANKED 1ST...

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You said the 'could have's and 'would have's

Were irrelevant

That the should haves mattered

I said we were lightning bolts

Electric and beautiful

From a distance we looked like threads of cotton

Or orange pith

Hanging delicate in the sky but we were

Dangerous and

Strong and

Loud

And always incapable of touching down

In the same place

At the same time....

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In life there are those haves and those who have not
We are told there will always be poor people in life
Yet poverty causes me so much strife
In life.

I hate being so poor
I cannot take it any more
There has to be success in store.

I see the want in the eyes of my wife
My child's hunger cuts like a knife
There has to be an end of this strife
In life....

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God-vision as a game of haves and have nots,
little wonder then veiled remains voiced intent,
for those who know not, tie up symbols in knots,
whilst those illumined, know the path of ascent,
reading between the lines, feeling not thinking,
their heightened awareness, firm and unblinking
and so we may say, meanings by each assigned,
depends on extent to, they’re with truth aligned....

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Let me put it this way
Make it clear beyond a doubt
That what will suit you best today
Are many ways to loudly shout
Our method will improve your scheme
Provide return endorse your name
Send you out into the world apart
Make you winners of your game
Outline the essence of your excellence
Make your offer shine a light
Where must haves must be had from you
A blazing glaze of copy-write...

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Charity counts,
God pronounced,
It's divine,
God defined-
Who to give and whom to give,
Charity is beauty like a flower,
Bridging haves and have nots,
Charity is priority,
When begins at home,
Charity is purity,
Cleansing poverty,
The giver has a guarantee from God,
Charity is fertilizing to grow more,
CSR is charity but not a business variety!

(CSR-Corporate social responsibity)...

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Lifelong series, proliferation of dreams
Procrastination pushes cans to rear shelf
Crushed pineapple replaces peaches and creams
Depleted pantry unenvisioned of self

Back burners overwrought iron pans of sin
Awaiting an opener, woman of tin
Lifelong series, ambitions, intended plans
Plentiful in could haves, instead, dented cans


Written:  1/1/2018
Contest:  Dented Cans
Hosted by:  John lawless...

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Even predators have mothers
and with the soft mewling eyes of infancy
they search, search for the breast of mother
the beak, the tooth, the talon, the claw…
Children worldwide hunger.
The small weak voices and stone dead eyes calling out
to those who have…
Mothers making stone soup.
Mothers giving of their own body the last
remnants of harsh life as the haves
go on safari’s or to zoos to
feed the animals....

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