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"stinginess" poems
Living little less than the right way I've turned all my friends to stone Weary legs carry me To the river Wash off everything I've known I've seen dead flowers on the way And crowds of people all alone No charity tempts me To deliver Now stinginess I don't condone And I don't want to roam Too far from my home Don't want to leave it all away The world seems small When you have it all Oh I wish that I could stay When I arrived the river had frozen still Ole Neptune saw no other way If I could only find a little time To **** I'd be out here all the day And I don't understand Why I'm branded where I stand Don't think you know how it might feel It doesn't take Much for a heart this cold to break Without a hope ever to heal And when you hear these words Next life my friend I don't know where I'll be then If there's one thing This world has shown We borrow everything we own Oh to reap what I have sewn Oh to reap what I have sewn Oh to reap what I have sewn Oh to reap what I have sewn
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Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 6:29 PM UTC
Conscience of Nero
I never gave interviews There was nothing to say, No one needs to know What I had for breakfast The day I made my mark On an impressionable city. They don't need my opinion, It would just be another color On their palette, and I can't have that. I don't want to see myself Painted on the homes and faces of strangers. I have lived to prove my worth, Not to have it affirmed - Mirrors are not worth their reflections. Mirrors can be vacant. I know my selfishness prevails on them Only while I live. I don't mind. Perhaps when I am gone, They'll look me up. They'll forgive my stinginess When they have me pinned up in a glass case. They will thank Death for transparency, But use my name to save face. At least I will be spared the sight; That's all I have come to expect. I console myself that it won't quite Be me those empty minds reflect. Imagination travels miles with a breath, For that I thank the generosity in Death.
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Apr 25, 2011
Apr 25, 2011 at 4:45 PM UTC
Generosity in Death
Sun is impartial in reaching out In sustaining life on the planet Equal intensity everywhere Even on the good and the evil. Reality appears to be partial Expectations are laughed at A drop of water to quench my thirst Stinginess even in abundance. Years spend in waiting for a change Reality never changed, continued to be A ray of light never bends May bend or spread out at opaque ends. Learned the art of nishkama karma Go on acting… for duty sake Never expect anything in return Duty for duty sake… life goes on.
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Feb 12, 2014
Feb 12, 2014 at 10:49 PM UTC
Ray of light
The Queen of Qanant Was a right royal **** A ***** of the first water. And almost as bad Was the offspring she had, Her high-class badass daughter. She looked at folks funny If they didn’t have money To her it was all about gifts. The Queen didn’t share That her kid pulled her hair Her stinginess created a rift. The Queen of Qanant Had all she could want Spangles and baubles galore. She had so much junk She needed four hunks To carry it all through the door. Her land was in a pickle No downward dollar trickle With which the poor could pay rent. She ignored all petitions To improve the conditions Thus a civil rebellion could foment. Her people could starve, No roast beast to carve; To her the whole issue was closed. So her daughter colluded And the story concluded When Mommy the Queen was deposed. So, that’s what’s in store When you ***** with the poor And ignore their righteous complaining. That’s the way things are You get only so far To **** on them and tell them it’s raining. The daughter was no better She matched mom to the letter And the whole story started again. But that’s what people earn When they never quite learn; They end up back where they’ve been.
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Nov 27, 2015
Nov 27, 2015 at 2:44 PM UTC
QUEEN OF QANANT
Oh the tears Oh the pain Oh the anguish The suffering of the people With their sorrowful heart Broken to pieces by wickedness Smothered and shredded Afflicted and forsaken Seeking peace and comfort Calling out to whoever Crying out for help But all to no avail I dwell in self gratification I live in a conceited world My words are to your derision Denunciation is my motto I care less about the world around me Stinginess lies in my marrow I am aroused by an inordinate desire for greatness Treachery lies in my heart I am impenitent and obdurate I am consumed by my profane thoughts And yet I say I am chosen nation A royal priesthood A peculiar person Dwelling in Glory and Splendor Enjoying the Goodness of The Almighty Not minding the world around me Ignoring their cries Overlooking their pains Oblivious to their anguish Though I know the way to peace And God as made me a light of the world I covert this light for myself alone My selfish deeds
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 2:36 PM UTC
My Selfish Deeds
you have heart, you have brains with lots of pains my heart fills with pains, you make me happy and my heart shiver and here it is on the plate, to you my heart deliver cutting into little pieces each of every species that I have come to absorb. . . in my own way to share the smiling graces. . . anticipating life in its pace. . . . until we came together brought by faith, love with our embraces when love was still. . . . I came to feel. . . The stinginess of sorts. . . How I am for this world or anyone to see. . . And how I saw some others. . . They had heart, they had brains. . . . With lots of pains. . . My heart they filled with pains. . . They made my heart happy. . .and then shiver, now here it is. . . On a plate, my heart to them deliver. . . Cut not into pieces. . .but in whole, as from my life they never stole. . . But I was stalled. . .From you. . . For as long as I remembered. . .the truth coming near. . . I knew what I saw. . .was hindered sometime by fear. . . What everyone’s projecting. . .gossip of the sorts. . . Made my ship leave them ****** ports and set sail to sea. . . Where I dreamed of sorts. . . I dreamed of soaring like a seagull. . . . . . . .oooooo sooooarrring free from sorrow. . . . Landing myself. . .next to you. . . . After my endless cries. . .my head never lies as I found of the moment. . .next to you. . . . Oooo how long my heart raced through endlessness. . . .
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Oct 12, 2011
Oct 12, 2011 at 12:40 AM UTC
You Have Heart
Black wings shoot through the sky 1000 lifespans of smooth power And then The fall Black wings cascade to the gritty cement Feathers of darkness Envelope A solid body Staggering forward The orange lights stinginess crushing down Reaching forward Long nails clawing at smooth brick walls Brick walls covered in **** and human filth The wings climb forward Reaching forward Gripping the dusk Holding onto the new day Grasping the new feelings The new concepts The same world The same body
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Jan 30, 2014
Jan 30, 2014 at 3:56 PM UTC
Faded grace
To love, is to hold and let go not to suffocate. To live is to and die to self in a every day manner. To care so deeply for others unconditionally. For a life full of self-sacrifice is a life worth living. For what you give, you shall receive right back. For to live a life with fear of being hurt is no life at all. But to freely give of yourself without fear or stinginess Shall be revealed after you have pass away through the hearts of others. For those who did truly lived shall be also be truly miss as well.
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 7:18 AM UTC
A Life Well Lived