Short Leveraged Poems

Business before pleasure
Are you a big spender
Mortgaging your heart
For lustful endeavors
Straddling your bottom line
Leveraged with burgundy wine
She wants a quick merger
Before your numbers decline...

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Owing a debt
you can never repay
Beatitudes leveraged
salvation in play

Moments beholden
to all that’s to come
Providence calling
in voices unsung

Eternally liable
the invoice sublime
Whose terms reverential
the bursar Divine

The wings of an angel
the wings of a dove
In debt to forgiveness
—absolved from above

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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Meddling money
plants stakes
to divvy tangible
on leveraged
need.

Stalwart purpose
unfettered by
those dangled lies
triumphs over
fear

despite confusing
covert attacks
designed to blur
conception of
nature.

Divinity of self
only rules
once freed from
binding loyalty
seized

at the barrel of
their tome
exclusionary to
force complicit
order.

My breath shall
cease long
before my hope
takes flesh in
word....

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Clearly defined that life were once
defined for me ~ announced,
nor evolution's goal, a mobile trounce
I live, nay, not to know your love, but ounce?

Not so, some ailing of assume
I live to love as God would see me through
in knowing you, in knowing you, some flounce
that Hope determines ordinate resource.

Then only love can fill God's planning force,
a power divine from wondering its course
forecast by daily leveraged endorse ~
this day so spent, I merger my recourse!...

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