Short Quid Pro Quo Poems

A rapscallion

Pit Peterson

A sine qua non

Of Village Hay 


A Quid pro quo

A Squid or roe

For Aeneid Poe

Of pillaged Bay...

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Whenever strife involves
  Quid pro quo, barter...
I just offer what I have,
I only wish what is mine...,
 i pay anyway
with self coin......

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Palestinians do not know
Israelis are not there for show
Go on!   Take a peek!
They won't turn their cheek!
From Romans they learnt  quid pro quo!...

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Having grown up with Sarah Seraphin and, Tristen Temple
Toddlers at Saint Nicks preparatory praetorian school of fine arts
Precocious, their quasi's trice musketeers quid pro quo ? His prodigies....

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Quid pro quo 
Give and take
How it should 
Have been 
Take take take
Is how things 
Really were 
50%50% my ass
More like 20% 80%
Not equal at all
Always seemed 
To have the 
Emotional upper hand 
Over me...

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Tit for tat as 'favors' go
 Sometimes there is a cash flow
 pay the piper get it done
 When you're busted its no fun
 Caught up in a 'quid pro quo'

 2-11-2022
 Latin Lessons Poetry Contest
 Sponsor: Margarita Lillico...

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Lately my life has been pure hell
So it seems that now I must sell
Sell my belongings, sell my soul
Sell off everything
That is even slightly old
So to the pawn shop I go
For a little quid pro quo
Where my wallet will surely grow
God I hope so!


At The Pawn Shop
6/24/2013...

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Washington is to get a foot of snow!

   That is nothin' new as far as I know.

      I will shed no clamant tears.

         They gave us snow jobs for years!

            Methinks that a pertinent quid pro quo!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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There was a local lad named one-armed Joe

     Who was an alligator wrestling pro

          He misjudged the 'gator's snap

               Resulting in this mishap

                    He dined on 'gator tail as quid pro quo

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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give,
                 sufficient, able
    committing, yielding, handing
conveyance, help, need, exchange
 expecting, transmitting, acquiring
               beneficial, eligible
                         receive


Date written: 04/30/2023...

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Hei Ho Hei Ho let us move to Beiho
                                    Beiho, the land of Karban and Peiho
                                        Karban gobbled my dear wife
                                       Peiho charged with bowie knife
                                    But I sent her to glory quid pro quo...

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Why are you here
Inflicting pain
Shut up, disappear
Do I entertain

I hate you so
Why do you stalk
I’m no quid pro quo
Do not try to talk

This is my house
Go on just leave
You are not my spouse
With the lies you weave

What have you left
But my burnt heart
You’re in hell for theft
At least hell’s a start...

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This is how we keep it
Our own exIusive members club

Quid pro Quo
You scratch my back I scratch yours

Wink wink nudge nudge
Said the contestant to the judge 

Know what I mean 

You place I place 
Same old faces 
Trading places 

With no more spaces left to aplly 
Sorry we are Full
If you know what I mean...

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In all the days of sinless pain
Where nightmares come
Like a pouring rain
Where my dying heart
Feeling only glum
Will soon depart
From the one I love
And shattered dreams
Like a fallen dove
And lonely screams
To the one above
Oh help me please
Don't let her go
I am on my knees
I will give my life
In quid pro quo...

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Can you make some space for me?
I will sit there beside you
I will not leave you
Listen to the sounds of waves
Look at the bright moon
Listen to the silence of the moon
The moon and I are very peaceful
Both are trying hard to hide the dark side
Let me sit very close to you
Hear your heartbeat
Feel your secret ache
Can you make some space for me?
I want to barter your pain with my happiness...

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As an answer to the all too common vitriol and truculence
I seek to anesthetize such behavior with the gifts God gave me
From a mouth that can produce venom flows milk and honey
From a base and vile self seeking "quid pro quo"
Comes the blessed parry of a forgiving heart
When people ask why I don't act as they would
The only response I could ever give is...
"Because God didn't give me what I deserve."...

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Ascending unto the fourth pinnacles auspicious plyth ~


To quantumly observe these plateaus regions of oeuvre


Molten monograms of monarchies scripted immure; immolating


These gravitating exhibits of perceptions inter alia


Past particles of meticulously latticed perplexities....


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....Quid pro quo?!






Note: Smile ~ "Its 'A Beautiful Day' &, 'Love,' Always," John!:) ~...

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Love relates and liberates
Mutual trust procreates,
Enlarging all as it grows;
Love flowers as it flows.

Love's rapport binds and bonds
Affirmed in whispers fond,
And prospers like blossom grows;
Love flowers as it flows.

A pleasured prized and treasured,
Unselfishin  it's measure
Requited quid pro quo;
Love flowers as it flows.

We release our hidden grace
As barriers unlace
When each the other knows;
Love flowers as it flows....

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Love relates and liberates
Mutual trust procreates,
Enlarging all as it grows;
Love flowers as it flows.

Love's rapport binds and bonds
Affirmed in whispers fond,
And prospers like blossom grows;
Love flowers as it flows.

A pleasured prized and treasured,
Unselfishin  it's measure
Requited quid pro quo;
Love flowers as it flows.

We release our hidden grace
As barriers unlace
When each the other knows;
Love flowers as it flows....

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Love relates and liberates
Mutual trust procreates,
Enlarging all as it grows;
Love flowers as it flows.

Love's rapport binds and bonds
Affirmed in whispers fond,
And prospers like blossom grows;
Love flowers as it flows.

A pleasured prized and treasured,
Unselfish in  it's measure
Requited quid pro quo;
Love flowers as it flows.

We release our hidden grace
As barriers unlace
When each the other knows;
Love flowers as it flows....

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My somber moments, no one will ever know
They're not open images, I choose to show
This is my fight to win or lose blow by blow 
No one else planted these seeds row by row
Many claimed to be in my corner but turned to go
They brought me their scythe, I reap what I sow
Give them no quarter, nor do they earn quid pro quo 
At last, I'm free no one left worth my trusting to bestow
Vaults are all empty to thine last breath, none left to owe...

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"Quid pro quo is a Latin phrase that literally means
"something for something." 
The phrase usually indicates an exchange of goods 
or services of roughly equivalent value."



Jack and Jill went up the hill

To a little log cabin filled

with bedding and candy pills. 

With a little skill

Jack asked Jill to take a pill 

then  roll in the bed fill

of hay. Jill with a loud shrill,

is this    Quid pro quo? 

11/7/2019...

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