Confucius - 551 BC-479 BC
...Wise man say, “No laugh up sleeve, while wear heart on same.
For misconstrued may be, lose heart's desire, passion's flame.”
Happy dentist say, when at chair, always looking down in mouth,
“If t...
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Categories:
thrifty, celebrity, fun, humor, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Belly Thing Called Life
...Life is rice, oil and salt
If living itself is luxury
And food is all delivery
Relationship is boring
You still need to cook
Your own food for love
In this way not thrifty
It's showing creativ...
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Categories:
thrifty, food, life, perspective, relationship,
Form: Free verse
A Letter to Myself
..."Nobody but God knows you better than you know yourself." By author
Dear Self,
What can I say to you about yourself
that you are not already aware of?
You’ve taken tests on personalities
and...
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Categories:
thrifty, meaningful,
Form: Quatrain
Remember that time
...Remember that time
we found a dime
and bought two ice cream cones at Thrifty?
That may very well be
the only time you and me
shared anything fifty-fifty....
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Categories:
thrifty, 12th grade, brother, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
My Diploma Reads School Of Hard Knocks
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My Diploma Reads
“School Of Hard Knocks”
Miracle Man
1/6/2025
Your time and your talent I once heard said,
was all a young person needed to get ahead.
So I’d rise up early and lac...
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Categories:
thrifty, blessing, education, god, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Voting For Spendy or Spender
...
Most votes went to Spender or Spendy
While few went to Thrifty
Who couldn’t keep pace
And fell out of the race
For he came up lame
Right during the game
But what was his name?
Who cares
S...
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Categories:
thrifty, perspective, political,
Form: Rhyme
I'm Just Being Me
...
I may be just a hat but from way up here I can see
that she has her clothes hung up like little soldiers
ready for service at the drop of a hat
As I tilt my linen peonies and squint in her c...
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Categories:
thrifty, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Free verse
2024 WE GET MORE
...Time passes and we are fine.
These may BE tumultuous terrible
Thrifty times for some. But only
Some might have anxiety about
Somethings concerning many
Things. But have a thought! The
Answer t...
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Categories:
thrifty, absence, africa,
Form: Free verse
Yours Truly Embarks On Wild Goose Chase After Elusive Pot of Gold
...Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
two alternate titles:
1. Gander seeking goose that laid the golden egg
2. Incorrigible lottery dreamer
linkedin with previous ...
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Categories:
thrifty, adventure, animal, bird, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Thrifty
...There would be,
enough gold in the pocket,
if,
happiness is treasured
in the horizon.
True, maybe
For those who are
Thrifty....
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Categories:
thrifty, motivation, truth, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
And My Life Is Pretty, O' It Is Just So Fine
...And My Life Is Pretty, O' It Is Just So Fine
Lightning struck just as soon as I inked those words
Sorta of like a mountaintop fell on my head
But who the hell thinks we poets are for the birds
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Categories:
thrifty, creation, first love, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Mine Doppelganger Complicit As Accomplice In Pecuniary Crime
...Disguised as an Apple Computer Technician.
He initially hacked Macbook Pro laptop.
He (alias Harvey Specter)
planted seeds of suspicion
that criminal activity prevailed
within my geographic ...
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Categories:
thrifty, abortion, absence, abuse, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Cemetery Visit
...They see an older woman seated awkwardly at the grave,
brushing debris from the sun-warmed stone,
clumsily shifting her weight in the heat -
alone.
They don't see her memories from thrifty-fiv...
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Categories:
thrifty, devotion, grave, grief, love,
Form: Rhyme
In Perpetual Spin
... Turn around! Turn around!
In perpetual spin memories abound.
One gown, long to the ground.
Antique white - quite profound.
A mother’s right to sow seeds.
A holy Father’s to yank weeds.
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Categories:
thrifty, clothes, memory, mother daughter,
Form: Couplet
Satan Walking Into Gods Plot
...Not in his favor eyes shifty
But goes to his credit nifty,
Helps not his image being hefty
But mars it not being the thrifty...
Not a nice story he's crafty,
Rather that he's so at fifty,
At ...
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Categories:
thrifty, character, god, perspective, religion,
Form: Rhyme
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