Short Manors Poems

Lamarck’s ‘Theory of Use and Disuse’,
By giraffes seems subjected to misuse.
They learnt the table manners,
Eating through gaps of manors.
This photo of theirs gets million reviews!
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Listen to poem:

Beginning Again
David J Walker

I am the crumpled shirt 
Ignored on the back floor 
        of your closet 

I am the good idea 
that became your 
        Lost cause 
occasional thought then
Forgotten again and again 

I am the misremembrance 
Of a past love 
        with a silver locket
	a place to keep my name
Lost in a forgotten jewel box

I am minding my manors and 
Mending my fences 
I am beginning to 
		Think about
Beginning again...

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My husband and I love to visit 
Old mansions once home to the rich.
It’s cool to see wealthy folks’ manors,
With which most people wish they could switch.

I admire the woodwork and paintings,
The furniture and the decor,
Though it’s often too showy and fancy,
Since ornate’s far from me at my core.

So I guess it won’t seem too surprising
That the rooms where at home I could feel
Are the quarters that house all the servants,
Which to me have the greatest appeal....

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The preachers are collecting monies,
many times more than once
during the holy Mass on Sunday.
Jesus has thrown the money changers

from the Temple, telling them -
what did you do of my father's house.
Money does not belong to God.
It belongs to Caesar.

Even Stock Market is closed on Sundays.
God was born and resurrected in the cave,
but his servants live in the manors,
in their castles, demanding alms

from the poorer than they.
Shameless preachers of the mammon....

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