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"dividends" poems
In my heart, you are an asset But in my mind, a liability You are an entry I can't forget That's slowly shaking my equity. Loving you is an understatement For a beauty's carrying value And so I made an adjustment Of the love that I must issue. But your heart had a preference For someone who's not me Who can give you more dividends Than a hopeful ordinary. All my hope was expensed For such unrecoverable loss And the business I've commenced Resulted in an opportunity cost. And so you went depreciating Ending this going concern There's this pain accumulating From a romance unearned. Now I'm left here to close All the journals I've made Correct the errors I chose For a love that I would trade.
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Jul 22, 2013
Jul 22, 2013 at 10:38 AM UTC
Accounting 143
The heart works for the hard work, beating constantly as targets are acquired. Shots fired, money wired and payments aplenty. Contacts signed, terms and conditions defined, it could take time, but the ***** rolling. Touch base as we reach for the stars, customers in charge, their business is ours. We roll monthly, comfortably in our own domains, renew them annually again as the pattern remains the same. Some days, it's a struggle to get out of the pit, feeling burnout, lack energy for my daily workout. The wage ain't great but the dividends could add up to millions. Some are cynical but I won't listen to those opinions. I treat my staff as people not minions. No need for incidents were a team of individuals. Passionate and driven creatures, hidden features and secret keepers. Let's get money and lets get paid, Theres a million ways we can earn more than the minimum wage. Let's raise the bar, the city is ours and the worlds not too far away... Dream tomorrow and live today.
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May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 at 8:19 AM UTC
Labor omnia vincit
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair says about the new Waldorf-Astoria: "All the luxuries of private home. . . ." Now, won't that be charming when the last flop-house has turned you down this winter? Furthermore: "It is far beyond anything hitherto attempted in the hotel world. . . ." It cost twenty-eight million dollars. The fa- mous Oscar Tschirky is in charge of banqueting. Alexandre Gastaud is chef. It will be a distinguished background for society. So when you've no place else to go, homeless and hungry ones, choose the Waldorf as a background for your rags-- (Or do you still consider the subway after midnight good enough?) ROOMERS Take a room at the new Waldorf, you down-and-outers-- sleepers in charity's flop-houses where God pulls a long face, and you have to pray to get a bed. They serve swell board at the Waldorf-Astoria. Look at the menu, will you: GUMBO CREOLE CRABMEAT IN CASSOLETTE BOILED BRISKET OF BEEF SMALL ONIONS IN CREAM WATERCRESS SALAD PEACH MELBA Have luncheon there this afternoon, all you jobless. Why not? Dine with some of the men and women who got rich off of your labor, who clip coupons with clean white fingers because your hands dug coal, drilled stone, sewed gar- ments, poured steel to let other people draw dividends and live easy. (Or haven't you had enough yet of the soup-lines and the bit- ter bread of charity?) Walk through Peacock Alley tonight before dinner, and get warm, anyway. You've got nothing else to do.
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Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair says about the new Waldorf-Astoria: "All the luxuries of private home. . . ." Now, won't that be charming when the last flop-house has turned you down this winter? Furthermore: "It is far beyond anything hitherto attempted in the hotel world. . . ." It cost twenty-eight million dollars. The fa- mous Oscar Tschirky is in charge of banqueting. Alexandre Gastaud is chef. It will be a distinguished background for society. So when you've no place else to go, homeless and hungry ones, choose the Waldorf as a background for your rags-- (Or do you still consider the subway after midnight good enough?) ROOMERS Take a room at the new Waldorf, you down-and-outers-- sleepers in charity's flop-houses where God pulls a long face, and you have to pray to get a bed. They serve swell board at the Waldorf-Astoria. Look at the menu, will you: GUMBO CREOLE CRABMEAT IN CASSOLETTE BOILED BRISKET OF BEEF SMALL ONIONS IN CREAM WATERCRESS SALAD PEACH MELBA Have luncheon there this afternoon, all you jobless. Why not? Dine with some of the men and women who got rich off of your labor, who clip coupons with clean white fingers because your hands dug coal, drilled stone, sewed gar- ments, poured steel to let other people draw dividends and live easy. (Or haven't you had enough yet of the soup-lines and the bit- ter bread of charity?) Walk through Peacock Alley tonight before dinner, and get warm, anyway. You've got nothing else to do.
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Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros autem, ut concilium Dei et conjunctionem Apostolorum. Sine his Ecclesia non vocatur; de quibus suadeo vos sic habeo. S. Ignatii Ad Trallianos. And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans. The broad-backed hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood. Flesh and blood is weak and frail, Susceptible to nervous shock; While the True Church can never fail For it is based upon a rock. The hippo’s feeble steps may err In compassing material ends, While the True Church need never stir To gather in its dividends. The ‘potamus can never reach The mango on the mango-tree; But fruits of pomegranate and peach Refresh the Church from over sea. At mating time the hippo’s voice Betrays inflexions hoarse and odd, But every week we hear rejoice The Church, at being one with God. The hippopotamus’s day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way— The Church can sleep and feed at once. I saw the ‘potamus take wing Ascending from the damp savannas, And quiring angels round him sing The praise of God, in loud hosannas. Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean And him shall heavenly arms enfold, Among the saints he shall be seen Performing on a harp of gold. He shall be washed as white as snow, By all the martyr’d virgins kist, While the True Church remains below Wrapt in the old miasmal mist.
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The Hippopotamus
Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros autem, ut concilium Dei et conjunctionem Apostolorum. Sine his Ecclesia non vocatur; de quibus suadeo vos sic habeo. S. Ignatii Ad Trallianos. And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans. The broad-backed hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood. Flesh and blood is weak and frail, Susceptible to nervous shock; While the True Church can never fail For it is based upon a rock. The hippo’s feeble steps may err In compassing material ends, While the True Church need never stir To gather in its dividends. The ‘potamus can never reach The mango on the mango-tree; But fruits of pomegranate and peach Refresh the Church from over sea. At mating time the hippo’s voice Betrays inflexions hoarse and odd, But every week we hear rejoice The Church, at being one with God. The hippopotamus’s day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way— The Church can sleep and feed at once. I saw the ‘potamus take wing Ascending from the damp savannas, And quiring angels round him sing The praise of God, in loud hosannas. Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean And him shall heavenly arms enfold, Among the saints he shall be seen Performing on a harp of gold. He shall be washed as white as snow, By all the martyr’d virgins kist, While the True Church remains below Wrapt in the old miasmal mist.
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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends, And making enviable names In science, art, and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come-- Inseparable my nose and thumb!
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Neither ****** Nor Bowed
PRAYER IS A TEAM SPORT [In the voice of your favourite over-excited rugby commentator.] We're inside the final quarter. We've seen a bone-cruncher of a contest today and there's no sign of a let up, the pray-ers gather for the next engagement, positioning themselves with practiced confidence, skillfully supporting each other, ready for the push.  You can see every knee and each hand bears the marks from this long muddied pray, red and brown staining every inch of their entwined limbs; - arms and hands holding fast. Front row. Second row. Back row. Digging in for the big push. The opposition has played an intelligent game, taking advantage of any lapse in concentration, any sign of tiredness, looking for any weakness to exploit.  The pray-ers know they can't afford any slips now, they need to keep up the pressure, maintain their advance deep in the opposition's half.  Every yard of gained ground needs to be defended. The pray-ers' Coach looks on - look at his smile! You can see the pride he has for his team, he's schooled them on every tactic of the opposition and now that training, that practice has paid dividends. This is a team of pray-ers that so clearly know each other well, supporting each other every step of the way. You can see their coordinated pray, their sustained effort and the sheer pleasure they feel when they are praying together. The pray-ers drive on.  The sound of their groans and deep breaths merge into one. There's a rhythm to it, a cadence as together they push and PUSH.  The opposition's footing is slipping, the pray-ers' momentum gains pace and, YES! the resistance collapses.  Oh, that must have hurt! But there's no time for complacency, the pray-ers re-form their line looking for the next opening, the next opportunity to push forward. This is a joy to see.  The Coach shouts his encouragement - this was never going to be an easy struggle; you can't dismiss the opposition - they are a seasoned though sometimes disorganised team and they can take you by surprise.  But as we've seen here today, the Coach knows that if his team of pray-ers keep to the plan and pray to their strengths, the opposition are surely in for a hiding. The pray-ers will triumph and they will take the winners' crown. - Now back to the action.
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 at 2:14 AM UTC
Prayer #9
PRAYER IS A TEAM SPORT [In the voice of your favourite over-excited rugby commentator.] We're inside the final quarter. We've seen a bone-cruncher of a contest today and there's no sign of a let up, the pray-ers gather for the next engagement, positioning themselves with practiced confidence, skillfully supporting each other, ready for the push.  You can see every knee and each hand bears the marks from this long muddied pray, red and brown staining every inch of their entwined limbs; - arms and hands holding fast. Front row. Second row. Back row. Digging in for the big push. The opposition has played an intelligent game, taking advantage of any lapse in concentration, any sign of tiredness, looking for any weakness to exploit.  The pray-ers know they can't afford any slips now, they need to keep up the pressure, maintain their advance deep in the opposition's half.  Every yard of gained ground needs to be defended. The pray-ers' Coach looks on - look at his smile! You can see the pride he has for his team, he's schooled them on every tactic of the opposition and now that training, that practice has paid dividends. This is a team of pray-ers that so clearly know each other well, supporting each other every step of the way. You can see their coordinated pray, their sustained effort and the sheer pleasure they feel when they are praying together. The pray-ers drive on.  The sound of their groans and deep breaths merge into one. There's a rhythm to it, a cadence as together they push and PUSH.  The opposition's footing is slipping, the pray-ers' momentum gains pace and, YES! the resistance collapses.  Oh, that must have hurt! But there's no time for complacency, the pray-ers re-form their line looking for the next opening, the next opportunity to push forward. This is a joy to see.  The Coach shouts his encouragement - this was never going to be an easy struggle; you can't dismiss the opposition - they are a seasoned though sometimes disorganised team and they can take you by surprise.  But as we've seen here today, the Coach knows that if his team of pray-ers keep to the plan and pray to their strengths, the opposition are surely in for a hiding. The pray-ers will triumph and they will take the winners' crown. - Now back to the action.
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Nothing is more important than your sanity and your safety. Achieving that is your choice and your topmost priority. You can say no not now, or no not yet but don't forget you will be burned if you don't give your best to diligently work hard to achieve it daily for the cosmic law fulfills. What can be more important than your well-being and happiness. Do the right things for today and tomorrow will be alright just for you. Have you ever thought about helping someone else in your own little way to achieve their goals or excel in their chosen projects. Always remember that when you do help with the abilities and resources available, you are also be investing in yourself, it's like an insurance, a protective way that will guarantee your place in the scheme of things. Everyone is as unique and irreplaceable as the stars. When your life is full of incessant activities, you will not have time to check time. You are filled with vim, vigour and vitality, put it to work and be the best you can be. And the universe will be kind to you by giving you the right dividends to equate the effort you put in place. ©2018,Emeka Mokeme. All Rights Reserved.
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Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 12:58 PM UTC
GIVE YOUR BEST
I'm eating chocolate, the kind the Swiss keep for themselves, the quality kind that can only be delivered by security truck, Chocolate that the Incas would **** a thousand in cold blood, Chocolate that's so good it will turn a committed ****** into a ******* sweet **** *Touring Venice with the Chocolateer is paying current dividends!
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Dec 25, 2010
Dec 25, 2010 at 10:21 AM UTC
Quality chocolate
1. I feel fractured splintered defeated entirely insular and spread to thin all at the same time covered with insecurities like a cheap suit or hollow exoskeleton nothing more than a lie. I grow tired. I'm bluffing my way through this life a brutal honesty I lack the courage to accept hiding my face from every mirrored surface a halfhearted attempt to prolong this detrimental denial. I can't ******** my way through self-reflection and trying to improve my image feels positively improvised. I lack sincerity and authenticity an individual breathing without zeal I need a break. 2. Here I am again a lonely itinerant migrating to the proverbial and often visited crossroads rather than contemplating a direction worth navigating be it following in the worn footprints of others or a path long overgrown with neglect. I'd rather lie down on the gravel road and nap in the open air just to wake up confused and temperamental. The destination remains unknown my indecision remains intact. I give impetuous a bad name by reputation and repetition alike conjoined twins that speaks to fate and circumstance. Like Houdini I'm secured in a long sleeve shirt dangling upside down from a burning rope placing blame on the flame. I need a break. 3. I'm not as intelligent or insightful as I once thought my wasted youth is a testament. A modern ruin like so many a Blockbuster I've outlasted my usefulness. I imagine what could have been clueless as to what lies ahead. A jovial repentance seems as likely as success, or stability, **** simplicity. Is it all too much to ask? I've been on break too long. 4. reboot jumpstart Alleviate my stagnant, vacant lot in life and cast off these first world problems. Consider not the flat champagne or the distance that separates today from death. Speak positively to the people that would not otherwise attract minimal attention. Set goals both grand and plausible with no worry of dividends and release cynicism and determine a trajectory that I may see through to completion. If for no other reason but to say that I tried. It's not so bad this imagined and dire circumstance. Relax and go on break.
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Feb 11, 2013
Feb 11, 2013 at 7:48 PM UTC
a letter to my once and future self (verascimititional lies I've told)
1. I feel fractured splintered defeated entirely insular and spread to thin all at the same time covered with insecurities like a cheap suit or hollow exoskeleton nothing more than a lie. I grow tired. I'm bluffing my way through this life a brutal honesty I lack the courage to accept hiding my face from every mirrored surface a halfhearted attempt to prolong this detrimental denial. I can't ******** my way through self-reflection and trying to improve my image feels positively improvised. I lack sincerity and authenticity an individual breathing without zeal I need a break. 2. Here I am again a lonely itinerant migrating to the proverbial and often visited crossroads rather than contemplating a direction worth navigating be it following in the worn footprints of others or a path long overgrown with neglect. I'd rather lie down on the gravel road and nap in the open air just to wake up confused and temperamental. The destination remains unknown my indecision remains intact. I give impetuous a bad name by reputation and repetition alike conjoined twins that speaks to fate and circumstance. Like Houdini I'm secured in a long sleeve shirt dangling upside down from a burning rope placing blame on the flame. I need a break. 3. I'm not as intelligent or insightful as I once thought my wasted youth is a testament. A modern ruin like so many a Blockbuster I've outlasted my usefulness. I imagine what could have been clueless as to what lies ahead. A jovial repentance seems as likely as success, or stability, **** simplicity. Is it all too much to ask? I've been on break too long. 4. reboot jumpstart Alleviate my stagnant, vacant lot in life and cast off these first world problems. Consider not the flat champagne or the distance that separates today from death. Speak positively to the people that would not otherwise attract minimal attention. Set goals both grand and plausible with no worry of dividends and release cynicism and determine a trajectory that I may see through to completion. If for no other reason but to say that I tried. It's not so bad this imagined and dire circumstance. Relax and go on break.
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My dog eared heart Is a stray paper heart that is worn at the corners I liked to worn you that it's been used and abused In many different ways. Like a monetary paper note it retains its value But it looks ***** in its present form It's a reflection of my being Valued the same but used and carried in many peoples pockets Sometimes spent, sometimes used for a higher purpose Never worthless but paper thin and fragile I'd cash in but I am not that shallow I want someone to take it and invest in me To take time to gain my interest and spend my dividends.
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Aug 8, 2016
Aug 8, 2016 at 1:31 PM UTC
My dog eared paper heart
I was just reminded why my pencil is so dear.   Commented on a post ... ...replying in poetry to the host, the battery died and one if my best pieces just disappeared. I struggled in vain to write it again but gave up .... had a fit in a hurry.   Had I subscribed to the prescription I apply, I wouldn't be sitting here worried.   I still have poems I wrote when I was 13 because I write old school .....in pencil on paper.   Sure they maybe faded, torn, have some folds but at least they didn't just become vapor. So if it hasn't happened to you, learn from this fool cuz losing prized verses is not ever cool. And if it already has, beware.... technology again Is not your friend, It won't pay dividends So don't be crass Cuz you'll be near the end then **** ... its gone  .... having bitten you right on the ***
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 1:28 AM UTC
Reminder from my Pencil
Like, it's like life giving you bonus points for being a genuinely good person, but not exactly dividends come out. It's more so like a lottery. There is some high or low going out Karma, but if you're doing less than others, it doesn't mean you don't have a chance of striking gold. More like they just did things more often and allocating their karma point count, and I don't know maybe, maybe not, influences you winning the Karma Lotto.
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Aug 30, 2015
Aug 30, 2015 at 3:10 PM UTC
Karma Lottery.
It's Sunday again for you cloistered patricians aloof from the madness, the magic and myth; who trust in your wisdom, investments, physicians unready to answer forthwith: "Why bother with worship—in church or the zoo— why weaken the links with a dull set of tools ?" you ask yourself over your high-end Tarrazu, bemused at the fables of fools. You've bartered salvation for New York Times articles, sipping on bitterness (shade-grown organic). You settle for molecules, atoms and particles unfairly-traded, satanic— while you celebrate emptiness, general futility musing on nothingness, sure of specifics ensconced in your kitchen of pampered gentility flirting with atheist physics. Those simple plebeians:  you'd love to enlighten them help them, like you, to become a free-thinker but you remain tasteful, for boldness might frighten them reeling in fairy tales: hook, line and sinker. Yet somebody, somewhere has uttered your sentence (though you abhor judgement, let's read it again). Sheba and Nineveh, versed in repentance await you—not whether but when. The darkness is brewing unholy filtration; the wine of the harlot approaches the rim; your guilt is augmenting in slow percolation; you shrug it all off on a whim. The souls of Assyria rise from your paper they watch in amazement, prepare your abyss. Your coffee now brims a more sulfurous vapor; oh sinner—there's something amiss: The crypts of Marib and the tombs of the Axumites shudder and groan while you're reading the Times... (immune to the words that some Christarded  poet writes mixing psychosis with rhymes.) Royal Sheba will chastise your erudite unbelief, smug self-importance and cynical squawk. Then she'll sigh with immense Ethiopian grief and her Highness Queen Bilqis will talk. It is Sunday in Babylon.  What if your sunlight ends... why are there mobs in the streets of the nation? Shall you have breakfast—or calculate dividends... what would you pay for salvation?
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Mar 25, 2016
Mar 25, 2016 at 10:30 AM UTC
Weakly Devotional
It's Sunday again for you cloistered patricians aloof from the madness, the magic and myth; who trust in your wisdom, investments, physicians unready to answer forthwith: "Why bother with worship—in church or the zoo— why weaken the links with a dull set of tools ?" you ask yourself over your high-end Tarrazu, bemused at the fables of fools. You've bartered salvation for New York Times articles, sipping on bitterness (shade-grown organic). You settle for molecules, atoms and particles unfairly-traded, satanic— while you celebrate emptiness, general futility musing on nothingness, sure of specifics ensconced in your kitchen of pampered gentility flirting with atheist physics. Those simple plebeians:  you'd love to enlighten them help them, like you, to become a free-thinker but you remain tasteful, for boldness might frighten them reeling in fairy tales: hook, line and sinker. Yet somebody, somewhere has uttered your sentence (though you abhor judgement, let's read it again). Sheba and Nineveh, versed in repentance await you—not whether but when. The darkness is brewing unholy filtration; the wine of the harlot approaches the rim; your guilt is augmenting in slow percolation; you shrug it all off on a whim. The souls of Assyria rise from your paper they watch in amazement, prepare your abyss. Your coffee now brims a more sulfurous vapor; oh sinner—there's something amiss: The crypts of Marib and the tombs of the Axumites shudder and groan while you're reading the Times... (immune to the words that some Christarded  poet writes mixing psychosis with rhymes.) Royal Sheba will chastise your erudite unbelief, smug self-importance and cynical squawk. Then she'll sigh with immense Ethiopian grief and her Highness Queen Bilqis will talk. It is Sunday in Babylon.  What if your sunlight ends... why are there mobs in the streets of the nation? Shall you have breakfast—or calculate dividends... what would you pay for salvation?
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the compensation for my competence? a can of Coors occasionally crowned with sticky notes instruction-filled and dense,    with worn old shoe string thick and tightly bound, a brief hurrah before a list to do, if time were air, with duty i'd turn blue,    a present given as a false pretense,    his recompense? a crushed Coors can atop the boss' desk, a drop spilled on the wood, a single sticky note stuck to the drop,    "your list of things to do, i could, I should... yet reach up to that single book, top shelf!" ("Learn How to Fix Your Life--Do It Yourself!")    soon management will purge all its dead wood, and driftwood i will be among the planks,   and crates expelled above board for to stay afloat, the company in all its ranks,   will learn that without wood the boat will stray not only from its sure intended course, but from the surface to the floor of course,   to join the tiger shark and manta ray, soon supervisors, managers and such   will join department heads, vice presidents, chief officers valued, appraised worth much,    thrown overboard to chase those dividends, that sink so silently to ocean floor, where there exists no air lock's safety door,   when futures join the pasts through these presents, my recompense for knowing when to quit?   a can of Coors occasionally crowned with smiling lips and laughing breath of wit,   my happy feet in new shoes leather-bound, a new ship where appreciation rings the ship bells of respect on many things,   smooth sailing through safe seas without a ground. (C)2012, Christos Rigakos
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Jul 11, 2012
Jul 11, 2012 at 8:25 PM UTC
the compensation for my competence
the compensation for my competence? a can of Coors occasionally crowned with sticky notes instruction-filled and dense,    with worn old shoe string thick and tightly bound, a brief hurrah before a list to do, if time were air, with duty i'd turn blue,    a present given as a false pretense,    his recompense? a crushed Coors can atop the boss' desk, a drop spilled on the wood, a single sticky note stuck to the drop,    "your list of things to do, i could, I should... yet reach up to that single book, top shelf!" ("Learn How to Fix Your Life--Do It Yourself!")    soon management will purge all its dead wood, and driftwood i will be among the planks,   and crates expelled above board for to stay afloat, the company in all its ranks,   will learn that without wood the boat will stray not only from its sure intended course, but from the surface to the floor of course,   to join the tiger shark and manta ray, soon supervisors, managers and such   will join department heads, vice presidents, chief officers valued, appraised worth much,    thrown overboard to chase those dividends, that sink so silently to ocean floor, where there exists no air lock's safety door,   when futures join the pasts through these presents, my recompense for knowing when to quit?   a can of Coors occasionally crowned with smiling lips and laughing breath of wit,   my happy feet in new shoes leather-bound, a new ship where appreciation rings the ship bells of respect on many things,   smooth sailing through safe seas without a ground. (C)2012, Christos Rigakos
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Keeping my composure with a Composition pad. I'm committed to compassion And I'm passionately sad. I'm competing with competitors That show no competition. My work ethic is persistent, All my wisdom blocks the ignorance. But I can't stay that optimistic and Surrounded by indifference. The injustice is indignant. See, my mind can tell the difference. With all the hate I be deflecting, And my love they stay rejecting, I'm simply drifting in the mist of This. The mystery of wishfulness; It glistens and it whistles so blissfully, But licorice Is sweeter than the outcome of Me laughing while I slit my wrists. But not as bitter as a Hell on earth. I Step on dirt and cigarettes-- Disgust me much, but marijuana Seems to bring deliverance. See, Mary wanna be a ****** Joseph is so sick of this. I'm praying to my God regardless, Let Him add his finishes. Can't stay here long, I got to go, I swear, I'm getting rid of this. These ain't tears that's on my cheeks Love, see, these the roads of distances. Let's not settle out our differences. Should've settled all my dividends. I should be held and given kisses ***** Not accused of having mistresses. My love is warm, my soul is kind, And yet my heart receives these Hits so brisk. Maybe if I bleed out by the end, They'll finally miss the kid.
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Oct 28, 2018
Oct 28, 2018 at 12:14 PM UTC
L!f3
One foot in front of the other. Days passed by. Walking was said to be a spiritual practice which yielded many dividends. The replenishment of the soul and the connection to all around you. Pilgrimage to sacred sites, walking the labyrinth, meditation. Strolling, cavorting, frolicking or wandering. As we stretch our legs, we stretch our minds and souls. Few philosophers and writers had ever penned the absolute, gut-wrenching torturous boredom of the walk as Ronnie James now experienced it. Fifty-six bones, one hundred and twelve ligaments and seventy-six muscles of dull, throbbing pain. Who could tell how long it had been? He had but only the tedious task of counting his steps to judge it by. He'd long ago lost all track. Sauntering alone through the barren ocean of sand. Indeed, Thoreau wrote that the word itself, "saunter," may have been derived from “sans terre.” “Without land or a home,” murmured Ronnie. With every step we take, we leave some ghost of ourselves behind, He who sits motionless, watching life pass by through the window, may be the most awful vagrant of them all – but the saunterer is no more vagrant than the meandering river. Days passed by.
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Aug 19, 2015
Aug 19, 2015 at 3:18 AM UTC
Feet
1 Congratulations on your maturation: now our lust's "love," not infatuation. 2 Romantic "deficits," confiscatorial "trends" -- **** your "benefits" -- where's my dividends? 3 I tried to really kiss you, not co-impregnate a tissue. 4 I must confess I love that dress -- more or less! 5 -- I'd die for you (you said) -- I'd mumble you in bed. 6 you  me  us  me us-me-you  you-me-us-you-me-you us-me-us-meyouyou-us-youyouyou youyou-us-me-youyouyouyouyouyouyou! you-me-us-us-me-me-me -- us 7 Three coins in the fountain? Who in hell's been counting? 8 Nod, smile; I'm playing along while they're "playing our song." 9 Monogamy demands its peephole: *Maybe we should see other people.* 10 "The last time I saw her she'd hired a lawyer."
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Nov 11, 2011
Nov 11, 2011 at 2:03 AM UTC
Modern Love 2.0 (10-word poem X 10)
She was smoked salmon so spread Like his creme of the crop Smoking hot circles 0-0 0______No-No The points... Dots And shoe size petite___- The whole website To love and honor Whats in her moves The private Dancer May I never be dropped To be overly loved   I am not asking for more The score more or less can be The greatest dancer O yes, so many pretenders? More spread like_______ Mr ((Mayonaise__meeting Handsomely Hellman Falling into your embrace Tango-Tie I- Apple creme pie to phone U May I tango  4-U Sweet lips of mango Don't shed one tear Listen to what is said?  How her dance step to be read next year to be wed Like your hot rods and hubcaps near your bed choices To sweep me off my feet well said The tango soprano voices The Hub Rubbing my dancer's feet his treat Wildflower Salsa beat Emotional dance The Tango Graphically Cool______ design Contacts to sign To his excitement Steps are well worth the dividends Drinking tapas The fine tip of gratis Sign sealed and dance delivered In an instant dancing contract Two bodies dance as one__________* Flaming intertwined Brazilian Silky- hair Mr. May-0 tango pair Mr. Hellman merci beaucoup His desires came with the loop The mixture mango scoop May-0, not the May Day No clouds passing in grays So festive never passive Well made beaded Peacock Miss Marrietta The Birds of the feather Expression of sensual faces To impress the right man Distinctly dressed Explanation point May I interject my point______________ Tropical sandals high-point Tango dancers have a the certain way The lovely maiden Names day and age Eyes engage contest page He to her side fancy May- 0  in her Prime (Hello) Another Day-Oh! Don't move her dancer days to sail away Sea breeze perfect per day Her fancy dancer shoes not on layaway *       *       *      *       * In the now a dancer nowadays taking flight Every day always the dancer's way You Amaze so blessed Like your possessed *       *       *       *     Titans in a blaze How it may arise He was dancing to her movement ****** salsa To her toes up to her Tango lips amazing dips
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Jun 1, 2018
Jun 1, 2018 at 8:15 AM UTC
May I Tango Mr. May-0
She was smoked salmon so spread Like his creme of the crop Smoking hot circles 0-0 0______No-No The points... Dots And shoe size petite___- The whole website To love and honor Whats in her moves The private Dancer May I never be dropped To be overly loved   I am not asking for more The score more or less can be The greatest dancer O yes, so many pretenders? More spread like_______ Mr ((Mayonaise__meeting Handsomely Hellman Falling into your embrace Tango-Tie I- Apple creme pie to phone U May I tango  4-U Sweet lips of mango Don't shed one tear Listen to what is said?  How her dance step to be read next year to be wed Like your hot rods and hubcaps near your bed choices To sweep me off my feet well said The tango soprano voices The Hub Rubbing my dancer's feet his treat Wildflower Salsa beat Emotional dance The Tango Graphically Cool______ design Contacts to sign To his excitement Steps are well worth the dividends Drinking tapas The fine tip of gratis Sign sealed and dance delivered In an instant dancing contract Two bodies dance as one__________* Flaming intertwined Brazilian Silky- hair Mr. May-0 tango pair Mr. Hellman merci beaucoup His desires came with the loop The mixture mango scoop May-0, not the May Day No clouds passing in grays So festive never passive Well made beaded Peacock Miss Marrietta The Birds of the feather Expression of sensual faces To impress the right man Distinctly dressed Explanation point May I interject my point______________ Tropical sandals high-point Tango dancers have a the certain way The lovely maiden Names day and age Eyes engage contest page He to her side fancy May- 0  in her Prime (Hello) Another Day-Oh! Don't move her dancer days to sail away Sea breeze perfect per day Her fancy dancer shoes not on layaway *       *       *      *       * In the now a dancer nowadays taking flight Every day always the dancer's way You Amaze so blessed Like your possessed *       *       *       *     Titans in a blaze How it may arise He was dancing to her movement ****** salsa To her toes up to her Tango lips amazing dips
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Trends come and go, friends remain forever. Friendship transcends love. Family, are genetically bonded. Friends, are experience bonded. Both are needed, both are loved. Family and friends both pay dividends. Richer to be loved by friends that become family, than hated by family that pretend to love.
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Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 7:36 PM UTC
Friends (For Calpurnia Mockingbird)
Broken not spoken. Injured not healing for what have we done? This garden of ours where we wind away the hours amongst the roses has all but gone - for the world is broken, damaged and beyond repair as we all sit in our lair, of consumerism and capital divide. Why can we not live as one? Instead we resort to bombs, collateral damage without any thought, for this war is never won. Oh COVID what have you done? You came along at the worse time a clear year for many without fear - now that has all but gone, the instigation of fear you bought with you that runs deep. Creating dividends that divide and not untie. For the world is broken. Damaged and makes no sense. Did we ever learn to heal or does the war that has been raging still go on? Now what have we done? Damaged you beyond belief and yet as we go one, no turning back to previous life. Instead earth you are punishing us. For damaging you throughout humankinds existent. But don't worry, we created a broken world.
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Oct 30, 2020
Oct 30, 2020 at 6:08 PM UTC
A Broken World
Listen, children I'm calling by phone to teach you of a bourbon sunset; a time when it's best to sit alone on a river's beach and drink and try to forget. Forget about the past, the sorrow and the pain drink them down fast or they'll slowly drive you insane. Drink away the pleasure douse out the memories Tonight I drink for leisure and to burn away my arteries. Listen, children, quick, to hear the story of the whiskey sunset will surely bring you to tears; This knowledge, do not forget will pay dividends in years, the doctrine of the bourbon sunset. Now my tears flood this river's bank and a blind man could see this bottle's drank so when the time comes it's me you'll thank for teaching you of a bourbon sunset. Listen, children, really do not curse lie or steal just drink away the fiction all that remains becomes what is real you will die stone cold and all alone no matter how much love or hate your heart feels
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Oct 9, 2011
Oct 9, 2011 at 7:25 AM UTC
A Bourbon Sunset
I can't wait till once again We have a president who's sane; Whose meaningless words "No collusion!" Don't become a daily refrain; Who cares about people and country More than profits and dividends; Who places trust in allies and doesn't Treat our adversaries as friends; Whose charitable foundation isn't Merely a personal slush fund or scam; Whose kids aren't part of shady deals; Whose spouse really gives a **** Who has integrity and doesn't Give hateful fringe groups praise; Whose job applicants don't need The word "crook" on their résumés; Who wins elections honestly And doesn't rely on outside assistance; For whom the use of lies and deceit Is NOT the path of least resistance; Who wants border security but doesn't Constantly harp on a senseless wall; Whose behavior is much, much more Refined and LESS Neanderthal; Who truly believes in democracy And fully supports the rule of law; Who doesn't expose ignorant views In daily tweets of blah, blah, blah; Who, when putting words together, Could prove to be more prolific; Whose daily repertoire has more Adjectives than "great" and "terrific"; Whose team is not constantly Involved in ethics violations; Who in his first years of office isn't In seventeen investigations. Sooner or later, things will change. But judging from every indicator, It's suddenly starting to look as though Relief might come sooner than later. -by Bob B (12-19-18)
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Dec 19, 2018
Dec 19, 2018 at 9:58 AM UTC
I Can't Wait
You are so much more invested in domesticated or non-domesticated furry friends then Syrian refugees who look more like you and me. You are so much more invested in a piece of multi-colored cloth that ***** in the wind a symbol of an idea that has not been fulfilled then the victims of drone bombings. You are so much more invested in a barely ancient book then women’s rights. You are so much more invested in police authority then those oppressed for centuries, those brutalized incarcerated, demonized, enslaved, and murdered. You are so much more invested in sports and reality shows then education and the pursuit of truth. And here is what your investments netted you apathy, violence, greed, destruction, pain, suffering terror, and the dividends are still pouring in.
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Jan 1, 2017
Jan 1, 2017 at 1:03 PM UTC
You Are So Much More Invested In
Can I imagine a future home Which brothers and sisters could loan And bring their blossoming born and bred? And play and dance and keep well fed? Could work be kind enough to bring Dividends for me to spring A coup to conquer the village's heart? With smiles from all my parts? And bring my multitudes of strings And teach the young to strum and sing And build a body: strong and bright So God will keep them in his sight? I am averse to scheduling But sometimes love is a roof: therein Lie memories to study and Transform into the promised land.
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 10:41 AM UTC
A future home