To the Tenants
Dear tenants, as you toil and strive,
Remember that God is on your side.
Take heart, for your work is not in vain,
The blessings will come, through the pain.
Though it's hard, to pay your rent,
Respect your landlord, pay it on time.
And then you'll see, your life improve,
As you reap the blessings you deserve.
So take care of your
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Categories:
tenants, society,
Form: Sonnet
Gingerbread Cottage Choses Tenants
gingerbread cottage was waiting for the right family
their kids were too loud
there was no discipline
this was not happening
she showed them her meanness
this family ran out screaming
why are you so picky? realtor asked after they had left
next couple was too old, stodgy, set in their ways
she was irritated that they were still alive, let alone looking
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Categories:
tenants, house,
Form: Free verse
The Tenants
The walls were thin
The music was loud
Drowned by the whiskey and gin
They stomped upstairs with heavy boots
They made me shudder from tip to root.
They were a noisy bunch
With a Dog that barked all day long
And fell off to sleep when the party was on
Imagine my plight we had a big fight
They laughed with glee and
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Categories:
tenants, humor,
Form: Rhyme
An Owl's Call
In this craziest time
in mid summer,
Let’s say…
(Owl, the craziest,
laziest, the oldest,
begins his sonorous hoot;
the others: old, young, men
and women,
with their left palm
on their chest, repeat.)
Let’s say high,
to Mother Earth’s
all sons and daughters,
whose existence
we didn't see
(for we do our ward
rounds only at night),
we didn’t care,
we couldn’t respect
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Categories:
tenants, earth, environment, forgiveness, humanity,
Form: Free verse
I Sing of Andre Kelbrik of South Africa
I
Andre Kelbrik was a realtor in Pretoria, akin to Washinton or Ottowa
I was in South Africa's first free & fair Foreign Ministry, Deputy to Schwarz,
Head of the Communications Hub: we issued DNB, summary of News
To all ambassadors and consulates of South Africa, abroad ...
I had no interest in business. Thanks to Andre, I am a
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Categories:
tenants, appreciation, betrayal, celebration, character,
Form: Bio
The Parable of the Tenants
A man grew a vineyard.
He dug a wall around it.
A built a pit for a winepress.
A built upon a dwelling tower to look over all that there is.
He placed it in the care of farmers who will tend to the vineyard and they were made his tenants.
When it was time for the vines to bear
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Categories:
tenants, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Tenants To Animal Landlords
A nation with the southernmost capital in the globe
whose identity has constantly been bullied
by the global acknowledgement of a larger one.
A place where economic empowerment comes through films
to the point a movie employed a minister for maximum harvest.
No name longer than that of a Hill in Hawkes Bay;
no part of the country is more than
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Categories:
tenants, animal, community, earth, nature,
Form: Ode