Short Promissory Poems

radiant tenets
promissory misnomers
deciduous lives...

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bloated seams threading
weighted scales out of balance
promissory notes...

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DERIVATIVES TRADING
I bet
you sweat
BANKER'S PROMISSORY 
NOTE
my gosh
what tosh
FINANCIAL TIMES
loan freeze
cash please
REPOSSESSED
no bread
in shed...

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Old Age is that time of life,
When for all our years of youthful exuberance,
Our promissory note is stamped in red
Past Due
Tom
4/27/2017
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Let's write a promissory note
Let's have a tryst once before death
We might not end up in same space
I might end up at separate place
For, stars are alike in all universe....

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Every human is a baby of a kind
Baby conceived is, a promissory note,
The one just born, an overdraft,
Adult baby, a bouncing check.
Old baby, a withering flower
Which one is perfect baby?...

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BANKER'S PROMISSORY NOTE

my gosh
what tosh

NOTE:A footle is a two line ,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and not necessarily in rhyme).A 'hybrid' innovative sequenced variation has
developed over the years (since 2009)alongside the original definition...

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On the verge of extinction,
Yet battling its way out of my heart,
Like a bird gone rouge trapped in its cage.

Whispers promissory notes that its never too late,
Neglecting the omission of forgery.

Parents nagging for salvation,
But blinded by shades of deception,
I tell them I'll be okay at the end of the day.

Inspirational when all is divine,
Degrading when all is deficient.

Hope,
The contradictory standard....

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You and I alone so warm
Is it really real you're gone?
Do I still love you
In expanse of this vacuum?

From me though gone
Your memories with me live
On and shall for long
Bring you back home.

This secret between you and I
Promissory letter of new sunrise
To carry on your great legacy.
Dad, for you I will!!!





       *In honour of my late dad who passed away on Saturday 22/10/2016 and buried on Saturday 12/11/2016...

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the tsundoku trail beckons me,
a promissory path of pleasures to be had,
veiled in the haze of unexplored possibilities.
i take my first steps into the secret museum,
strolling into the forest of forgotten volumes,
each one brimming of worlds yet unseen.
my breast thrums with curiosity,
echoing the eternal rhythm of the psuche:
"what lies missing, these dogeared pages?"
now that my friends, is the mystery..
“welcome to Poetry Soup.”...

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Listen to poem:

Closed Account
David J Walker

The uncertain
Decimal point is real yet
Unforeseen 
The last scene of the 
Latest dream of a 
Vague and future
 happiness 

The language is Pigeon 
And unfamiliar
An inspiration of 
Lukewarm winds
An overdrawn account 
Of promised future days
Compromised and 
Secured only in unsigned 
Promissory notes

And yet the plan is
To retire young 
While the infirm 
Await their turn 
To expire
To the tune of a
Closed account
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