Short Tenant Poems

once was a tenant
only thing left is a remnant
have much sentiment...

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The tenant meeting

A good tree provides shelter

For squirrels and birds...

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Anil
Blessed before
Confounded (by Tenant Thieves &) courts
Deo doesn't dare doubt (Jesus now)
Eyes Eternity-ward: F A I T H...

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A tenant farmer strummed one note
That some would argue Chopin wrote
Neighbours heard that sound
And plowed up his ground
Monotony sure got their goat!...

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Living in one
renting the other
Owning them both
then to discover
As owner I’m captive
the tenant is free
In debt to the banker
—remortgaging me

(The New Room: January, 2024)
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All my life
I looked for a being
to accept my spirit
as a tenant...
I paid a high price
for this grant, a
rent for this condition...
But I didn't find a fixed acceptance
nor any settlement or
correspondence... !...

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My life is a colorful scene
Full of thorns and  stones
As a tenant, i dwell in this tent
Waiting for this body to disintegrate
Waiting for this hut to fall in frailty
Upon the earth
Whereon shall my soul stand before The Man....

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New tenant, new tile, 
Got me Christopher
Columbus,
Didn't come to 
Harm us 

Or else, I tag him 
Vincent Price,
Twice as nice in 
Dracula Drag.

A message here 
For moving blues? 
Seems clear: Sail On 
Girl, To New World
with flag unfurled...

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I am a tenant
of your penance.

I reside in your house of discontent.

My whispers scream
too loud
and yet
a voice too small to be heard.

I live in a vastness of silence
of words which cannot be heard.

This house is called dread....

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free you soul
and let it be
hold you head high
when you fall to knee
you still have strength
this you will see
and when the tears come
know your not me
the hate comes to
nothing is free
let it bobble and boil
you will see
like water you need to be
hold on because
better a empty house
than a bad tenant...

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Is remembrance now a hidden tenant,
that lives throughout your home

Does it lurk in every corner,
to come out when you’re alone

Is the voice heard down a distant hall,
a lost child once left about

Does that face now staring through the dark,
draw you in—or turn you out

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Is remembrance now a hidden tenant,
  that lives throughout your home

Does it lurk in every corner,
  to come out when you’re alone

Is that voice heard down a distant hall,
  a lost child once left about

Does the face now staring through the dark,
   draw you in—or turn you out

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Coffin

Your striking aura leaves most folks aghast,
a somber beauty that bequeaths its mark.
Adorned in satin, some would think miscast,
may leave the tenant raging in the dark.
Declaims fond memoirs of the recent past,
before the raven called, there was a lark.
How fitting that you came to be from death
and now inured to lack of deed and breath....

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People and mice 
live together 
forever. Mice don't 
care. They just know 
what they like. 
 .
Caveman-like
tenant warm squats 
food hubs, 
babies' buvettes. 
They navigate  
with poor eyes,
by noses, 
the dark 
mazes.
 .
I have my own
trouble with sympathy.
Oh Disney how you have
led me astray.
I hear them 
unkillable with their
pitter patter feet....

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A Limerick Poem

AABBA

A limerick
A little windowpane trickled on the left behind diamond
A cosmic milky way, solitude, and Bed, bath and beyond
The word, to and fro, and surreal, a tenant, and the zealous zeal!
Where about of these, all , felt as drops for basil bill, a Duncan hill
A hue in the very first, in a hymn song? For Life, whittled.


3-9-2024
(Updated)
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Imprisoned heart yearning to be free..
Silent chambers echo the cries back to me..
Sheer idiocy haunts as an unwanted tenant..
Choices of yesteryear are engraved in the present..
Unfortunate trials play havoc with the mind..
Heart full of chaos, life is cruel and unkind..
Bowing before my savior, peace I've found at last..
The Author and Finisher of our faith, His love is steadfast....

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        Filtered sunlight swirls
through weathered cracks in the walls
            a winter haven

           Cat lays in the hay
     licking kittens as they drink
            a content tenant

       Owls and swallows roost
   keeping watch from the rafters
        no mice dare scamper

         Sun sets behind hills
  eyes open wide and feathers fluff
          its time for dinner
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I am black my soul in skin
I am black my spirit risen
As I close my eyes I see Darkness
And the color of Darkness is empty
Darkness engulfs the top of my head to the sole of my feet
The darkness is in my pupil the darkness is then my skin cell
Black am I tenant bronze brown tan I am black
I Too Am a Child child of God
And in his creative mess he makes no mess
Lo I am black and I am blessed

2/10/19...

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Get ready

        to the love,

        to never go to war...

        get ready to fight

        to never go to the rings...

        Get ready for the tenderness,

        to never lose humanity...

        Get ready to die,

        to live deeply...

        Get ready for life

        even if it takes a lifetime...

        Prepare for the divine,

       to never be a tenant

        from hell... !...

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A nymph and her daughter
Pause to refresh
Two caught in polite conversation
Like the admiring tenant.
Yet whatever  happened (shivers)

To the beautiful day?
As two or three fingers 
Roll
Dance together  forming words
Yet

Another thought is played
Set In drifting time

We two four 
As two for
Running on in pensitivity

Roiling thoughts
Only echoing 
Longingly in trapped rapt melencholy  
Left
Softly swearing

On
Needless heedless wasted  lives...

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I have a house
I am my own dwelling
And the address 
Of this home is
J A M E  S 777 One of God's Children Lane
I was occupied by sin
But his rent was too high
Choose not to buy 
Was sure price too high
With the rent no longer wanted
So I evited him
So whom was this tenant you ask
Lucifer, Beelzebub, demons
Now I got a new tenant
And the mortgage is free
Got the Holy Spirit residing within me
I am a house

2/3/18
by James Edward Lee Sr....

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Down whiskey for brain alteration
Inhale potent smoke to open cognitive Inspiration
Id is now truly bent
Body is demanding its overdue occupancy
Rent
Sick and wondering why the tenant is so Unkind
Taut rope is twisted to maximum
Now it needs to unwind
Let loose spinning wildly out of control
Dizziness causes vision to blur
Careful, cant do much with broken arms
Messed up beyond belief
In the eye of the inebriated storm
There is still no relief...

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Some mornings
Written: by Tom Wright
4/7/2018
	
Thoughts arrive like comets, swift and bright,
Each, a former tenant of a mind swept clean.
Often with a frequency of thieves in the night,
Of late, draped in dust, no more showing sheen;

For worthwhile words, today, I sit chumming,
Ideas that come aren’t worth a dime, nor cent.
But whatever their worth they’ll just keep coming,
Until the end when there’ll be no words unspent;
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To boldly stand before me nude
Is something I consider rude,
Your secrets presenting like food,
While the very act is damned rude…

What you might achieve I can’t say
But I could swear you did not pray:
Against Temple of God ‘Treason’ 
At a time judged Holy Season…

High time you edged out of my way,
Though I’m very sure I can’t stray,
Even as my knickers now quake
With its First Tenant wide awake…

Very clear the way we reason
Could our world turn into prison…...

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Cypress haven
Out echoes of the hollow
Creatures of the night
Hoot of Great Horned Owl

Cheeps and chirps shadowed
Seem to follow
Maybe, saw grass yips
Puppies upon the prowl

Sunken moss covered fallen
Echoes reaching further out of hollow
Black cubs fuzzy
First words loud into growl

Or whiny songs
Crying baby swallow
Bullfrog warts
Balloon chin bellows

Maestro amidst the moonlight
Conducting within the wallow
Woodland tenant choirs
As Mother Nature echoes through the hollow...

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