"lender" poems
It is no gift I tender,
A loan is all I can;
But do not scorn the lender;
Man gets no more from man.
Oh, mortal man may borrow
What mortal man can lend;
And 'twill not end to-morrow,
Though sure enough 'twill end.
If death and time are stronger,
A love may yet be strong;
The world will last for longer,
But this will last for long.
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Dear Friends, this poem was composed many years ago and posted on ‘Poemhunter.com’. Time here is compared to the money lender and miser Shylock in Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant Of Venice’, where Shylock insisted on cutting out a pound of flesh from the merchant Bassanio, for having failed to pay back the loan taken from Shylock! Hope you like it, - Raj
TIME THE GREAT USURER
TIME the great usurer, is a great miser too,
Always knows the cost of things to be paid
back by you!
It readily loans you the desired amount in
number of years.
Smilingly assures and allays all your doubts
and fears.
It makes the loan to appear like a free gratis,
So you hardly bother to take any notice!
But with the passage of growing years and
life depleting with time,
In paying back your interests, you got to
default sometime.
Precisely at that moment, the usurer knocks
rather loud,
And through death takes back its’ principal
amount !
Alas, Time the great Shylock knows the cost
of everything.
When will it learn to appreciate the value
we attach to things?
-Raj Nandy, New Delhi.
Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018 at 12:02 PM UTC
Borrow only from the future so that it will have more to lend.
Oct 31, 2015
Oct 31, 2015 at 8:25 PM UTC
A price that’s in the men shoes
He’s unclaimed and well schooled
Act his rhymes n’ mimic his friend too
Make him understand our sweeter shoo
Blend to been online with his touchy tools
Then play him around n' bring him to us too
Wherein he'll crave more for our added duties
A pleasure to bend n' subdue his struggling pities
And so you try to get me for all the monies n' fame
Hoping that my heart do cringe to the gains and aims
For in most man’s heart lies some greed n' impurities
But that testimony was short-sighted n’ less accurate
Dunamis and poverty - a borrower, the lender's slave
An experience to fail my rapture; a shameful swing
Which my hands cannot say – an immoral beauty
Whom my lips can not welcome; the school
The teacher - the minister
A princess n’ a bling
A frog as a king
He’s handsome
By gender
She's beautiful
in slander
A prince
An offender
A princess
The slanderer
The princess and a king
A soldier n’ a fling - a queen who’s ashamed
The offer that topped the shelf of supreme
That's us, both upside down and unclaimed
A soldier n’ a queen - a coward, a shame
The prince and a fling
A miss
A glamor
A mister
An amour
Unashamed
With clamor
Unmoved
By hammers
A miss in a glamour
A mister in an amour
The minister and a king
The majestic of single shoes
Who's keen to sense a moral beauty
Who sees the world as an interesting chaff
Dominate n' commoners; a sense of duty that
All must claimed from their individual combat
For in most men heart, here lies love n’ cruelty
To flamed the hearts n’ dance to pains n’ strife
So I sought to seize the life of love and Faith
To pursuit a walk of dreams n’ less blemish
Where little is important than odd duties
Like turn me around and teach me you
Teach me to see another man’s shoot
Make me enjoy that creepiness too
Shade my mind and my drink too
Cause I’m unclaimed n’ uncool
A vice that's in a male shoes
Jan 11, 2019
Jan 11, 2019 at 1:33 PM UTC
I have a next door neighbor who's always short of cash
This neighbour is aware I have a little stash
Every second friday I await his usual knock
A three day loan of twenty pounds at exactly 10 oclock.
This has become a habit, these loans to my friend Jack
I do not mind him asking as he always pays me back
He needs some gas and electric, it's not good to go without
That and more dubious substances, of that I have no doubt
But then it got me wondering, this money I do lend
Cash in perpetual motion, seems like it will never end
To and fro and back and forth for all eternity
Am I the one who lends to him, or does he lend it to me?
Nov 11, 2016
Nov 11, 2016 at 5:35 AM UTC
In these ways unlike any other
You have made me a bigot
How can I trust someone
With your nose; broad as any stereotype
Your eyes; The color of over-circulated dollar bills
Your lips; billowing, plush, plumped like a fresh Challah
Over-flowing like your Manischewitz Wine.
Lying mouth
A liars mouth
You look like a lender
You look like a heathen
You are an Aryan Mother Mary
Your hair is blonde. No, it’s yellow. No, it is ***** blonde
***** blonde
Stop controlling my multimedia experience
Mismanage the tasteless fruits of my love no longer
But who am I to hold your cultural tropes against you?
The way you hold my state of mind
Up to my eyes, only to make me see what it is you view
You are the jew. And I’m the one burning alive.
Jan 2, 2010
Jan 2, 2010 at 7:48 PM UTC
I'm Runnin Jews like Lil Dicky
Run the Jewels, and Ricky
With soso flow of Biggie
Ever since I quit the ciggie
Livin life straight propper
Givin props to Big Poppa
I'm off the spliffs and poppas
Writin riffs for beats that drop ya
Lingerie ladies who have
Curved bodies tight Mercedes
Hot as Hades 420 degrees
Just hot enough to chrisp my cheese
Torchin these trees
Straight from Belieze
Blowin Bolivian keys up they ***
As their friends ends they pass
None of y'all thought this Jew could last
Two days past your last meal
Didn't really know how to feel
Cause I ****** you so raw
Y'all got mistook for veal
That means hyper tender
No allussion to child *** offender
Call me a money stack lender
Back ****** but never a pretender
If I split her in half
God'll have ta mend her
This **** is known to send ya
Into bliss quick
That feeling'll stick
When the tip touch they lower lip
They get oil slick
Just the thought get's 'em hotta than a candle wick
Though you know I don't flow with no trick
Start off slow so we can show each other
Our flame be sure not to smother
Like an over protective mother
Reflect on it while it's lit
Climb inside my mind
See how I visualize thee
Undress and become pantiless
You're sittin on my face
I impress with the pace
I carress your **** with tongue
Spell sinless you'll be a wet well
When you see how well I'm hung (do tell)
Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 7:43 AM UTC
what I want for father's day
some years ago, in a dark hospital room we spoke,
you recall, me asking to a lender be, take twenty years, I said,
give them to her whose body invaded and was sleeping
not from love or purposeful nobility, thinking simple that
others, could use them better, and you listening, took but ten
way I figure it that leaves at least ten and maybe much more,
cause the best kept secret is the time and place you've arranged for us to meet, old friends greeting for the first time
got what I need, done my deeds, writ poems enough so here is what I plead and desire come the mark on the calendar tomorrow,
as if fatherhood didn't come with accountability and needed a notification special
did my sums, have me square and close to breaking even,
a perfect place to pause so take ten, take it all and put it, those years in a special reserve for those kids of kids, the ones who carry my genes, names and the burden of my words and the ones I just love for who they are
someday the arising unknowns of a mighty judgement coming might require a special adjudication and you such a
good record keeper, will recall this requested bequested,
and draw down the special reserve we schemers have put aside in their names, in your name, in my name, and tap that keg of extra life in sickness and health, when they come asking
that's not to much to ask...and oh yeah,
Happy Father's Day to you too
Jun 17, 2017
Jun 17, 2017 at 8:31 AM UTC
slow formation of thoughts
the crystallization of metaphor
like smoke
like making rainbows
into everything
breaking white light
into color
in the
black
free-floating subjective
realities
convect around and through
an empty space
the objective objective
purpose pole-star
centering concentric
star flung
peoples
all watching
the light that seems to shine
from the void-hole in the
galactic middle
great bending
spectral lender of
experience
Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 9:55 PM UTC
*Father’s advice to son
(Sorry Mr. Hemingway)
Never trust a lawyer
Or a money lender too
Read fine print in every contract
Never buy it used but only new
Don’t sign up for the army
Only marry one good wife
Never write on Facebook
It will come back and ruin your life
Always despise the latest war
Only seek out sweet girls with a smile.
Never buy or rent a *****
Never trust a gambler
He will steal your very last cent
Your landlord will evict you
Cos you can’t the rent.
So lead a good and wholesome life
And outlive all and every friend
See them all in the great beyond
When you’re prosperous old life will end.*
Mar 11, 2016
Mar 11, 2016 at 3:05 PM UTC
Let me tell you about this boy
my cuddle buddy
best friend
lover toy.
My hand warmer
jacket lender
mix tape maker
park walk partner
parent pleaser
calls me his sunshine
guy.
Yeah real sly...
when he nonchalantly
sends that piece of hair
back behind my ear
he leans in enough
to rupture this forcefield
I have built around myself.
He smells like stargazing
and it's hard for me to imagine
that I've ever understood
the concept of walls and ceilings
because I suddenly doubt there'd be space
within them for me and these feelings
because somewhere up above
me and this boy's hands
were crafted to hold only each others'.
The trees know
and the rocks know
and the "no trespassing" cops know
to let us be
in our own little puddle of moonlight
in a world with so many potholes
we are just tadpoles
not sure what the future brings
but willing to keep on swimming
because we'd heard that God
had promised us wings.
Yes this boy will put an end to the dark days
reinvent my concept of time
to where my heartbeats mark the seconds
but until that moment arrives
I'll keep looking for the boy
with the hands that only
fit mine.
Jun 13, 2012
Jun 13, 2012 at 9:39 AM UTC
I'm in love with Juanita
From El Paso country song ...
Kiss me stronger, senorita,
Make my memories be gone.
To forget the northern beauty,
Who's cold heart is made of stone,
Kiss me stronger, Spanish cutie,
Give me love I missed so long.
Brown eyes so warm and tender,
Margaritaville from blender
Makes it easy to surrender,
Borrowing love from lovely lender.
Do not check my credit rating,
- I am all anticipating ...
Give me love that I am awaiting,
Make my loneliness abating!
Rambling rose from Spanish garden,
Do not let my heart to harden.
Harden only what can please,
- I am down on my knees.
I'm in love with Juanita
From El Paso country song ...
Kiss me stronger, senorita,
Make my memories be gone.
Mar 24, 2016
Mar 24, 2016 at 1:57 PM UTC
There have been longer nights;
Restless hours, reels of pictures
Playing back our hours together;
On a loop, with no ending.
There have been unbidden thoughts;
You entering from the wings;
Me, like a funnyman startled
By a heckle or misjudged audience.
There have been warmer days;
When your eyes burned bright
And seemed to light up my way;
Your laugh setting fire to my heart.
There have been colder days;
As when we walked on grass;
You in borrowed warmth;
Repaying me, the proud lender.
There have been racking doubts
And moments of essential fear;
A jet dropping from the sky;
A hapless ship of fools.
There have been longer nights
But I really can’t remember when;
Since you left, the dark conspires
But the solstice brings your light.
Dec 21, 2013
Dec 21, 2013 at 5:00 PM UTC
When you realize you’ll never seize the day,
Never have the right things to say,
Your judgments are always erroneous,
You’re not Hamlet, but Polonius.
Though you know that all things must end,
It doesn’t spur your torments to mend,
A dutiful advisor,
Who never gets wiser.
It must be so serene
Never having thought you might have been-
“Neither a borrower nor lender be”;
I say, yet fear both apply to me.
“To thine own self be true”;
ah! Long ago, I missed that cue-
And all do agree,
The audience doesn’t need, my soliloquy.
Under all this weight so crushing
And the envy to just feel nothing,
This act’s end, now I’m certain:
I’ll die off stage, behind a curtain.
Feb 2, 2021
Feb 2, 2021 at 6:03 PM UTC
I am the borrowed time giver
I wait by the edges of beds
I prop up the corners and smooth out the wrinkles
I'm also the turner of heads
I am the lone sea breaker
My whisper it shepherds your dreams
You have awoken on a
Distant shore, it seems
I am the voice of antiquity
Tethered to leaves on the wind
I am the cloth that covers you
When you have sinned
I am the borrowed time lender
Your hope, it rides on my wings
I am the broken mind mender
All I can do is offer you these things
Mine is the touch of changes
Though none of them I can claim
I sweep up the mirror pieces
That reflect your shame
I am the blind leading the blind
I have no secret gift
The truth is what you'll find
When the veil you needn't lift
We are the worm food growers
The crawlers, they rule from below
They eat up the dead and squeeze out the living
And time marches on just so
Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 1:56 AM UTC
They, who walk all over others
are always suprised to find themselves toppling
when the treadupon manage to drag themselves out from below them.
If you are among the treadupon,
as we all are, in one sense or another,
seek to assist they who find themselves toppling
despite it all.
We're all in this together.
Tread not upon others, nor allow thyself to be tread upon.
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
Seek not
to put thyself ahead of others,
nor to put thyself behind any other,
but, rather, to establish
that every individual and group
resides firmly upon an edge
of consciousness-
of transcendence-
of philosophy-
of experience-
of happiness-
of progress-
of Life.
That is the path we,
as the Human species,
must take if we are to quell the sadistic demon
known only as "Humanity,"
and transmute that energy into something we've long since forgotten-
if indeed we ever knew it at all.
This is a challenge
to cooperate and transcend cultural bias.
This is a call to action,
and that action is an end to intentional war;
political, economic, religious, social, and personal.
This is a plea
for us to seek edification within ourselves and everyone.
Rise to it.
listen to it.
Empathize.
Don't stop until it's done,
and, then:
continue
Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015 at 8:05 PM UTC
Don John Shaughnessy
Tamer of the beast
Crasher of the party
Spoiler of the feast
Always in the gallery
Never in the dock
Don John Shaughnessy
Roller of the rock
Don John Shaughnessy
Burster of the bubble
Terror of the timid
Beginner of the trouble
And who's that conducting
Directing at the back?
Don John Shaughnessy
Leader of the pack
Don John Shaughnessy
Rouser of the mass
Thrower of the bottle-bomb
Header of the pass
Never leaves a fingerprint
Never any clue
Don John Shaughnessy
Turner of the *****
Don John Shaughnessy
Keeper of the keys
Lender of the loan shark
Breaker of the knees
Driver of the getaway
Watcher of the coast
Don John Shaughnessy
Drinker of the toast
Feb 8, 2013
Feb 8, 2013 at 4:22 PM UTC
“many who are first will be last, and the last first.” Mark 10:29
the mixed drink of finance terminology
my stock and trade, or,
used to be anyway, when I was gainfully employed,
intersects with a place I don’t habitually frequent,
seeing as I am an Old Testament kinda guy
dollars to doughnuts,
this errant thought makes me smile,
the devil and me (a/k/a the devil in me)
have a warm milk with KAHLÚA,
in the dead of night, across the kitchen table,
doing repartee and bad poetree
and biblical textual emendation
on the verse in question
having been present, the devil likes it just the way it is,
but the old nitpicking me always thinking,
a little editing makes the ‘milk’ go down easier,
suggests a reversal of emphasis:
the last shall be first,
for many who are first, will be last
less threatening and the point better made
lead with your right, taught my boxing master,
and the last shall be first is
very right
you see, many call me,
the lender of last resort
which is true enough,
but my preference is best
when addressed as
lender of the first resort
Aug 19, 2019
Aug 19, 2019 at 6:13 PM UTC
Martyr complexes running wild
My own fueling this escape
Ties are charred and crumbling
In their minds I am to blame.
Slave to the lender
Though owed so much
Is this strength
Or is it greed?
Weeping at their feet
Begging for love and acceptance
Invalidated and dismissed
I should have kept my distance.
I am not the Phoenix
Rising from the ashes
I am the flame
An unassuming figure of destruction.
Desperate for survival of spirit
Licking my wounded soul
Never enough to those I trust
Manipulations crease in the fold
Oct 27, 2017
Oct 27, 2017 at 4:07 AM UTC
you said you'd wished we had more time
but i give you the time every day.
you don't have a moment
to sit
and glance,
and see the dance
passing between our eyes.
i wish that there could be something more
i wish that old flame would rekindle
but a spirit once lost
is a spirit hard gained
in the weary hands of the lender.
the asphalt is wet with
the rain
(tear)
drops falling from the blue empty sky.
my eyes are cloudy
from a haze of memories
too painful too remember keenly
but too keen to really forget.
let go of the past now, darling
it holds nothing but a place for regrets,
you'll become weary of that place
before you have time to
remember why it was you came.
Mar 25, 2013
Mar 25, 2013 at 2:06 PM UTC
I am the Joom Jot
Draw center
Fickle taste tester
I am the Un-block
Faith lender
Stitch-Med ******
I am the going
I'm the going
I'm the there right now
I am the Joom Jot
Doodle-ease
Caffeinated lung
I am the Roe-bot
When I please
Diaphragm sung
I am the knowing
I'm the knowing
I am the Over-bone plow
Would you stutter in my face?
Would you find your own place?
I am your instinct followed
I am:
"Create Right Now"
Oct 10, 2010
Oct 10, 2010 at 12:11 PM UTC
I'm in poor condition
a broken thing
and everyone tells everyone
to leave it alone.
So alone.
Even when the sun is shining,
the sky is clear, I'm next to you,
I am so alone.
It still rains in my eyes.
And I've just been fed lies
to keep my resources around
It's no surpise.
And I've come to expect
that everyone will tire of me
and move on to the next
more interesting and easy
contender.
Another man
another lender like me
who is happier or
more likely to supply
the love drug
everyone is on.
Jul 8, 2021
Jul 8, 2021 at 12:01 PM UTC
Food Prices On The Rise
Value of the dollar declines
Inflation
People have a problem paying for their cars
The same thing with real estate
Different programs
Continually pump up the bubble
Equity firms are lending to landlords
More and more people brought into the market
These securitized investments will be worth absolutely nothing
These speculators will lose everything
When the market collapses
Push the loans out there
Pump up the real estate market
This is what these equity firms are doing
Don't worry
The central bakers protected themselves
They have the FDIC covering, the derivatives market
When the system collapses
They can take the money from the banks
To cover their losses
They will give you worthless paper back
Obama is letting in illegals
100,000 illegals legalized before the injunction
Many of them got their work permit
After the injunction
Breaking Texas state law
The lender of last resort--The Federal Reserve
The spender of last resort--The Govermnet
The dollar will completely collapse
It is only a matter of time
Mar 5, 2015
Mar 5, 2015 at 12:54 PM UTC
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it was as they said free, for me.
I awaited my number to appear,
a red warning light flashed
the page locked up
and kept me there
like an infested **** site does, I have heard,
when you search for free anything,
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and sign on in another name,
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change my ssn#
and my phone number, again!
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My cat knocked it off the hook,
I swear.
Feb 26, 2016
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