Short Niggardly Poems

Say, if you could control the treasures of my Lord’s mercy
Then you would be reluctant to spend it rightly
Because humans are niggardly....

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And don’t make your hand 
Shackled to your neck niggardly
Nor stretch it forth 
To its utmost bigheartedly
Otherwise you will have disgrace
And become penniless....

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Satan threatens you with poverty
And enjoin you to be niggardly
Whereas Allah promises you forgiveness and prosperity
And Allah is Ample-Giving 
And He knows everything....

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Arthur swore he'd  be less brotherly,
When his brother got disorderly.
He would want their mum less motherly
To get him back to being orderly

A shock from one paid as orderly
His movements are scarcely soldierly
Many things handling haphazardly,
Though his allowance quite niggardly;
Toes from shoes saying it jaggedly...
Orderly whose walks much zigzagged
And finest garments the ragged....

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Studying the face’s familiar eyes
Compelled to ask, “Who are you?”

In a cant voiced riposte he said
“Wealthy and destitute”,

“I am impartial and prejudiced”,
“Compassionate and derisive”,

“I am modest and narcissistic”,
“Munificent and niggardly”,

“I am astute and imprudent”,
“Dignified and indecorous”,

“Each piece of this puzzle is me”,
“And I am the puzzle in entirety”

My mirrored face then audaciously asked,
“Now tell me…who are you?”...

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