Beggared Poems - Poems about Beggared

...I think they doth protest too much Though they say nothing For fear the noxious, noisy wind Will leave its fetid stench on them For perfume is but a piglet’s bath A cloak o’er bloodied flags ......

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...I hear them on the television, like I have a choice, that's flat-out all they show these days: Politicians with their elucidations tangled as Grandma's yarn. Honest Joe, explicating why I'm beg......

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...(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end today April 25th, 2021 generates elusive warm treasured memories). Akin to significance my eldest sister felt toward her “Willies” – (totally tub......

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......They said the diggings had all been tapped out, ain’t no way a man could strike it rich now, but there was work for men, hearty and hale, had I ever thought of wearing a star? It’s not the sor......

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...‘One more job and then I am going to Panama and watch the canal in the sun’ John’s trust funds had not done so well lately and pension age approached fast ‘They ripped me off once more and I need m......

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...Unscrewed She led me upstairs where I’d sample her wares For a fee we had negotiated She looked pretty stunning, my heart it was gunning I longed for my lust to be sated She sat on he......

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...She, there drawn, but not for sleep Daubed in guile, the heartless weep Cold, the secrets sheets thus keep Peeking, stained in deeds that creep Th......

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...Janet went down to the honky-tonk for some line-dancing and some beer, down to a joint called ‘Edna Mae’s,’ she always had a good time here. Old Edna, tattooed, worked the bar, three bikers play......

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...Broken... Eagerly Erased Vaguely Visiting Vitality Encouraged Earlier Evenings End Remained Ravishing Reality Lifelessly Lurking Yearning... Beggared Excessively, Varied......

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...On a windy rain-swept day When a murder of crows I see, Their ruffled feathers ragged Sorrowful as they can be. Huddled they perch on roof-tops Gazing mournfully at the sky, No ray of hope th......

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...Your walk away into the echoing stillness Of a crimson autumn sunset Gently stepping over the leaf-strewn forest floor As withered leaves under your feet Bid you soft and gentle adieu. The wil......

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...MAKING HIM JEALOUS Five lovers have I, nimble servants each One comes to me in ardour where I teach One comes in curiosity attired And only leaves when senses all are fired One comes in ......

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...And ever above, clouds of sorrow assemble in thunderous ranks: a surfeit of threat and gloom. And ever below, unhappy footsteps surrender rhythm to unyielding pavement— against a gray and ......

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...by Michaelw1two Mind’s deep permits, darkness’ caverns crave, I beseech of thee one light defined in candled flame hides in that blue profound indeed these depths despair; oh savage light, make br......

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...Sandburg saw you more than a century ago in prairie-town Galesburg - an old lady on the porch - unbothered by the whooping cries of ball-playing boys. Strangely, you had become a missing piece in t......

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