Short Moneyless Poems

homeless and bankrupt
his high-minded principle
bolstered his spirit....

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His village
is 
a plantation 
of privations,
where 
a variety of
sorrows grow.

Love
like corn 
lives
within 
a pale cover. 

Pain
is buried
in the furrow 
of misery.


Moneyless Majhi 
plods miles
with 
his stiff spouse 
on his shoulder.

Here
to live
is to burn
like dried cow dung.

First printed in The Literary Hatchet...

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TAO 
Tao 
To Flagstaff 

Jesus 
moneyless 
homeless 
hateless 
how can I really hate you 
if I am numb and there are icicles 
in me 
how can I really hate you 
as much as you deserve particles 
of dust 
motes smoteing freely forming 
in all of the city 
dirty city 
Love gone 
Jesus 
TAO 

Charles Hice 

Copyright ©2006 Charles Hice...

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Penny is in people's Mind,
Which makes them unkind.

A world bereft of penny,
Would be the genesis of bonhomie.

Then, the souls would do what they are supposed to do,
Stretch their hands to atone without much ado.

To reckon the very purpose of existence that God entitled us with,
Penny will say, I am just a myth.

Penny is in people's Mind,
Which makes them unkind....

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Like an empty glass 
Hope fills 
among the mass
Hope fills the glass
Empty carts 
broken Heart
Hope fills
Like a chuck hole
Concrete asphalt filled
Joy is spilled
Empty box
Toddler falls
Hung up conference call
Unemployed wallets moneyless
Empty pockets
Empt y hands empty Glass empty hearts purple glance
I'm filling chance


12/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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“OYE” (“HARMATTAN”)
[BY OHWOJEVWE ESE GANIYU]


When
	On harmattan wings
Flapped iced
Into my oblongata cold
Into moneyless sadness
Of our Saussure’s paper
Locked in
Folic signified signifier
In language
Too much mystique in
Folic signifier signified
Till tides come
When
On glorious dawns day
We acknowledge
That those potholes
We 
Wobbled our way through 
In 
Thorns trumpeted
Into our ears 
Too congealed
To hear Bata drums
Hypnotizing us
Into spag queens hall....

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