Short Negotiations Poems

Negotiations

War torn countries in conflict

A tenuous link...

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Both groups jest across the desk
Rows of tight posteriors
Drool in unification
Till the crap appears.

© Harry J Horsman  2011...

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“The two sides sit
around the square table;
like the cheeks of one’s ar*e
together only, till the 
crap starts to appear!”


 © Harry J Horsman 1997...

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Freddy Mercury's iconic pose captured forever
London lost out on negotiations
bronze statute now in Montreux Switzeland
Home of Mountain Studios
Where he recorded seven albums
including Made in Heaven...

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These human relations -
What are they all about?
"Pure negotiations -
It's art. Don't you scream or shout! 

Start with stating your stance
With solid dignity
And provide him a chance
What if you find clarity?"...

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     Brawling backrooms 
       swirling in smoke

     Bloody negotiations
       served up smart folks

     Like Ike, JFK and
       Harry S. Truman 

     No Hillaries or Bidens 
       ~ or other clueless humans
...

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Cancer
Attacks
Normal cells die
Causing mutations
Ever growing
Reproducing.

Chemotherapy
Aggressive treatment
Necessary needles
Chemicals annihilate
Excruciating
Rescue.

Cancer
Anguished pain
Negotiations with God
Courage required
Exhausting
Remission please....

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It's not going my way and I don't have the tact
To enter repairing negotiations for that I lack
So to get my way I'll invade a near neighbour
To satisfy my ego whilst watching wars labour

But now it appears it's not going as I thought
Their resiliance strong, street fighting sheer
To satisfy my ego whilst watching wars labour
I'll now threaten the world, deterrant Nuclear!


<*>...

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Lines on forehead are deepening.
No signs of abatement
of fire in our bellies.

The hunger we inherited
is only comforting
the mouthless.

Broken laughs.
Strange bedfellows
chopping off the murals from the lips.

A body rots,
stinks.
Maggots fly.

Negotiations are still on.
Who will dissect the legend
to find the cause of death?

Like a clay model, a soldier breaks.


SATISH VERMA...

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How many hours are invested
in convincing Job's comforters
of disputable convictions


when perhaps 


depth lies in silent dialogues 

between a heart and a mind,

and can never be fully understood 

while lips attempt negotiations
to coerce agreements

by voicing disagreements...


... perhaps even wisdom has deviations;
maybe, wisdom in essence

is what works best for you 

when you need an answer....

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Hello Innkeeper, I would like a room please.
For the night or for the week?
The night please.
He smiles at me with a nice smile.
I return the favor.

With or without stains on the bedding? He asks.
I stare at him hard. 
Without please.
Okay, he says cheerfully, but that will cost you double.

How much is that? I ask him.
Three hundred dollars.
For the night?
He nods, and tries to give me keys.
How bad are those stains? I ask....

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we feel the one single life force
flowing though each and every form
feeling their fearful desires coarse
placating souls with embrace warm

with whom should we negotiate
being no longer the doer 
no agenda we wish to state
erst desires transformed to vapour

thus we put the other at ease
of their fear tremors cognisant
hoping for their tension release
with thread of truth in agreement 

05-July-2021...

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Icebergs are melting 

Sea level is rising fast-- 


Bleak the land's future!*  





© Demetrios Trifiatis
   08 November 2022


-
*Science has established, beyond doubt, that the window for climate action is closing rapidly. Thus from the 6th of November 2022, world leaders are meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for two weeks of climate negotiations to cut carbon emissions so that our planet is saved. This Haiku is my tiny contribution....

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The cannons roar, hatred inflame
Destruction, chaos, without shame
Our countries fabric torn apart
Pride and conviction rule the heart
Life as before we can't reclaim

Atrocities in freedoms name
Negotiations soon became
Words meant to stop, but instead start
The cannons roar 

We won't remember them by name
Who heard the bugle's call and came
They, on the battlefield depart
Victims felled by the warriors art
The cannons roar


12/09/2011...

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Earth's agony mounts,

Humans augment their demands--


Life its last breaths count!* 





© Demetrios Trifiatis
   08 November 2022
-
*Science has established, beyond doubt, that the window for climate action is closing rapidly. Thus from the 6th of November 2022, world leaders are meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for two weeks of climate negotiations to cut carbon emissions so that our planet is saved. This Haiku is my tiny contribution....

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Meeting begins, each puts best foot forward,
in as outer appearances do go,
behind banter lurk motives untoward,
sweet words incongruent with intent low,
just waiting to land a deadly death blow.
Weary of blood and gore, been here before,
we sift subterfuge and get to the core,
our call being, it’s not winner take all,
both sides must rejoice, seeking an encore,
in righteousness thus, players standing tall.

11-April-2022...

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Dusk, 
Say goodbye to the place you love
Shadows intrepid, 
A shallow 
Grave of desire
A wooded embouchure, a tightening grip
A melody, 
Resounded, it's reverberation rejected
Of sounds, 
Echoing,
Through your negotiations
A breeze, through the laughing bluebells of spring
Extracting the numbness of vanity fiends
Yellow indoctrination of the 
Daffodils sway
Suggestive and playful.
You penetrate realisation,
Knowing you can never return
By chance, 
You may find yourself again!...

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