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for what profit does a man make a poetry site? it is a puzzlement for me, for I would rather wrest away those viable hours writing poetry itself! this is not a trifling matter, for if anything, the poems are the trifles and the truffles! I thank God for fools such as these whose many thousand by them are pleased, and take and give my pleasures freely, but never forgetting the ones who are the facilitators ————————————-====== À quoi bon créer un site de poésie ? Cela me laisse perplexe, car je préférerais consacrer ces précieuses heures à écrire de la poésie ! Ce n'est pas une mince affaire, car, au contraire, les poèmes sont un véritable trésor ! Je remercie Dieu pour ces fous qui, par leurs versets, plaisent à des milliers de personnes et partagent généreusement mon plaisir, sans jamais oublier ceux qui rendent tout cela possible. nml. f i n i
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May 11
May 11, 2026 at 4:23 AM UTC
for what profit does a man make a poetry site?
See the soldier with his Guns Boldly marching off to war Fighting for the rich and greedy So that they can earn some more Death and glory, honour, courage This of you they do espy Sitting in their golden castles Smiling smugly as you die Band of brothers, comrades, duty are the bonds they place upon young men dying in futility for wars that never can be won Hear the names that earn the dollars playing on the fields of strife They bear the names of politicians who's actions served to start the fight Meanwhile turn the cogs of war Costing ever more and  more for missiles, guns and ammunition to feed these acts of gross Attrition And if comes peace as they may call it even though death still abounds We'll engineer another Conflict to raze a country to the ground Feed the greed and fight the war Do not question rich man's law Take your gun and go to fight for your God and what is right The Rich they sit and fill their coffers looking out for other offers To scratch the itch of being rich That never will subside And so the wars continue on The TV shows another one where rich man's cannon fodder face Death, in a foreign, faraway place And so rules the mighty dollar Wall street sends a rousing holler to war as a means towards an end and the rich man's dearest friend
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Jan 3
Jan 3, 2026 at 5:31 AM UTC
Rich man ́s War
Accompanied with the wealth of despair, Anyone who profits on emotions Earns themselves a chance to freedom.
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Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM UTC
The Wealth of Despair
Knotted prospectus, calculated till separation— yet a contract of love. A ring, a bouquet, a ball gown, but never a glass-slipper tale. Measured like stocks— bear and bull take the seat, business as proposal, merchandising scheme. A gamble of profitable shares, or stressful affair.
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Oct 1, 2025
Oct 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM UTC
💍Prospectus of Love 🧾
Remember they're monsters Not just in theory, but really It's no longer about the evidence (If it ever was...) But a call to collusion They want you silent Unless you recite after them So they can write papers On pipe dreams
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Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM UTC
Victims of Faster Science
Peace comes with surrender or destruction Peace comes with restraint by greater powers Powers ordained from on high for peace But cowardly harlots wooing kings for profits That such powers now impotent and abused The heavenly decree profaned and corrupted Peace is at an end, peace no more on earth So too goodwill and favour abrogated And judgements come, the book of life closed
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Mar 9, 2025
Mar 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM UTC
Peace
We will burn you. Your belly is full of power That is not yours The collective charge of a millennia of silenced people Your greed is a starving parasite In an empty carcass Today she is rewarded with a diagnosis for her insight Tomorrow he is fitted with a muzzle for his tenderness We will burn you.
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Mar 3, 2024
Mar 3, 2024 at 6:57 PM UTC
We will burn you
Rev Pea It's all about the features and benefits Make a product which will benefit The users satisfaction oh yes An aeroplane that delivers All promised things and more This one they got right Even if it's costly beyond compare For a century it'll reap profits Make them rich beyond realms Not to mention the next one More capable more costly More profits more sold Lockheed did this right No revenue in peace
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Dec 24, 2022
Dec 24, 2022 at 10:45 PM UTC
Rev Pea
Peace Profit Made in a country near you Things to do a job What type of job? To heal to **** to create to destroy All in the ACME factory Ready steady go get to work! Fulfil your shift Do your quota Finish the order yesterday There's much work to be done You busy little bees Make the fat boss rich Capitalist wage slaves Even the commies are the same Make some more do the work Enrich the rich you ****** There's no profit in laziness or peace We are all environmental commodities
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Aug 27, 2022
Aug 27, 2022 at 5:32 PM UTC
Peace Profit
Shed No tears There we go the same thing all over again More of the same nothing changes But the location and date Death is death Killing is killing War profit is war profit Way it goes from Napoleon to now The dollar amount increases Making the fat cats fatter Their bank accounts rise to God This will never ever end Like the Alien films They rule and own all things Not even aliens can stop this War is big business And death is death Shed no tears...
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Mar 20, 2022
Mar 20, 2022 at 6:06 PM UTC
Shed No tears
Big bucks being made/weapons sales contracts, slush fund/death big business
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Sep 1, 2021
Sep 1, 2021 at 1:29 PM UTC
war weapons haiku
Pain.
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Apr 1, 2021
Apr 1, 2021 at 4:03 AM UTC
What is Risk?
Powered matter leaves their origin, Into a land in the distance, Residing in the hearts of children Offering everything but resistance, Exchanging life and his riches For the taste of blood in their kisses. A child is a sacrifice For what is right In the prophet’s eyes And minds that are blind To the lies that bind His cries and surmise-s. The prophet’s prophecy Is to gain profit from gases More flammable that propane. His fingers, crossed and lost, His veins, lost its blue, His skin, has turns chartreuse With the sight of the new moon. A new dawn begins With the same sun, Covered by new clouds. Sounds of the innocent, Muffled by the lead they’re Buried in. Their fears of growth Disappear with their sight. But it’s alright, It’s in the name of Liberty, Currency, and Democracy.
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Feb 6, 2021
Feb 6, 2021 at 1:12 PM UTC
A Prophet’s Prophecy
How did we forget to know The souls of all but human beings? When did we stop listening To language different To the one we speak with ease? Those elders knew, they were involved With nature, not apart They worked together Until the witch hunts, And before capitalism ate art... And medicine, and childbirth, Marriage, communities; Profit would too much be capped If common people lived their lives With love and empathy Because some they feared the awe they felt; the danger sensed in crushing Waters, crumbling rock, and the power Of biting jaws and ripping claws Over small **** energy imposing So they taught us to ignore the souls Of rocks and stones and moss and trees... We're taught to value human life Above all that nurtures us - Even clearly animated beings And still amongst these human lives Are some more valuable than others, Categorised by colour or class, Gender, size, way of life, Or simply their choice if lovers They re-wrote the myths of first beginnings To omit other beings, except where they placed Them only as antagonists To bring ruin and shame upon our bodies And eternal servitude we've faced Modern Christianity pervades here And other poison ideologies - Not Jesus' way but the opposite... Organised religion serves only to prop Up our capitalist economies
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Nov 21, 2020
Nov 21, 2020 at 7:02 AM UTC
Small **** Energy
I am starting to see the cracks in I. The voice that I could not differentiate from. The part of me I mistakenly identified as I. Whispers its grievances like ghost rolling upon 3am. As if my mind is its corridor to haunt. Oh, no longer I, the one that associates itself with me. The ego is the one who pronounces I. Hangs off your existence like Corporate America preys on the poor. The part of you and I that questions am. The one voice that separates us. Same as the fake border that pronounces mine, yours, and theirs. Ownership that never fails to remind you. It’s the voice that degrades you. Same as the men who teach boys that boundaries only exist for state lines. It’s the part of I, that am bears in the burdening of pretending… Pretending that the notion that you must be this or you must be that. The promises we keep to I instead of am. These are the same silent alliances our egos share. Parts of us that accepts submissively. That trades profit for war. That values trees as paper. That mistakes water as a product not a right. That part of I that tells you that the land belongs to I… But you see, you are not I, you are not the ego. The part of am reminds you that reminds that you – That you belong to the land, but the land does not belong to you… I AM
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Oct 5, 2020
Oct 5, 2020 at 9:43 PM UTC
I AM
Opposite of gambling.
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Aug 8, 2020
Aug 8, 2020 at 12:50 AM UTC
What's a Casino?
Got designer belt it’s black Ferragamo And I’m still reminiscin from the time I said “la amo” And everytime they come around me I am sayin “Vamos" I Glowed up and I showed up while skrrting in a lambo Fake friends they pull up and I still callem fammo 97 cents a sale profits going down low Player with a victim mindset they wanna know mo Actin like a guru played the shordy feeling down low Played the game got brain and I prayed holy Trinity Muhfucas denying my only abilities Start a business then, deny its feasibility Turn 18 then, deny my credibility My life like the stocks, detached from reality Meet me seem blessed look closer insanity A young dude who cares, only bout his vanity Wanna blow up no boom just raise my personality Date one just to leave one and hop to another A lot of hearts gon break this whole **** summer Feeling tired like I just got out of a slumber Leave em in their feelings while they askin for my number Wanna make money while biking down the humber Wanna get a time machine to make my life funner Wanna lose my weight, but I am not a runner Can't trust nobody these days so money is my lover
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May 10, 2020
May 10, 2020 at 4:03 AM UTC
Player
Hues of onyx fill the hemisphere, daylight sets artificially.. The glacier of life floats breathless, more mass underneath.. Beauty now drowns for profit...
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Apr 10, 2020
Apr 10, 2020 at 5:46 PM UTC
When Sentience Succumbs To Man
Insanity exsists, in an individual and in humanity. You can get it rare, medium, or well done. Right now, it seems humanity is ready to order. Humanity most recently ordered WW I, WW II, The Korean War, The VietNam War, The Iraq Wars (Papa Bush and W), The Afghanistan War (ditto), Syria, Yemen. ad nauseum. Insanity often results in killings, but I would argue that it is self-induced, that had there been benevolent, professional intervention, we could have prevented these mass muder- fests. But hey, wars, especially big world wars, are money-makers, and the money-makers are not the ones being killed. And then there are variations on this theme:  catasphrophic climate change and the imminent threat of nuclear holocaust. One can get carried away with this killing stuff, you know. And, what would you like for desert? Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
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Apr 6, 2020
Apr 6, 2020 at 12:53 PM UTC
INSANITY AU JUS
There’s nothing profitable in poetry, but everyone looks at the poet in awe, there’s something about reading a poem at the time, in the right mood that sparks nothing that’s contagious, but something illuminating.
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Sep 1, 2019
Sep 1, 2019 at 8:27 AM UTC
heavy
cope with all the greed  injustice and brutality we learn about day in  day out with some luck these are not part of our own experience but second hand  from news and media this does not make it better  though when trusted public figures fail how to react     to priests and teachers           who abuse the young     to presidents  dictators  populists           leading astray their countries     to our elected politicians           unable to resist the lure               and money           of those special interest groups     to ruthless powermongers  businesses           that only work for profit           not the common good      resistance is not easy the choice of weapons in this conflict difficult yet if we not resist not make the global and the smaller perpetrators accept responsibility for their misdeeds our living years will soon grow fewer and we shall hasten our journey      to the end of all our needs
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 5:12 PM UTC
how do we
Of what cost is a smile? Of what cost is a 'hi, how are you?'? Of what cost is an act of kindness? Of what cost is selfless love? Our ego seems like a good bargain. Or simply a good gain.
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Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 3:46 AM UTC
Bargain