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Merchant Poems - Poems about Merchant

The silk merchant
Silk merchant 's gaze, a practical sweep, Fine thread he seeks, where shadows sleep. A finger points, with eager grace, "This crimson hue, a rare embrace!" Young maiden stands,with eyes so deep, My mother's hand, it secret keep. The silkworm spun a crimson stain, Where pain and love, did interwine. "Her wounded hands, the thread did hold" A sacrifice, a story to told. The silk,...

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Categories: merchant, 11th grade, grief, humanity,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Merchant of Venice Has Gone Missing From My Classroom Shelf
Now, I suspect the economics teacher But he suspects me and The case goes on into the term As we gently move From one story to another But I've got all the other plays, so they look good Break time and lunch time Offer time for time to call witnesses Or suspects one by one They file in looking...

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Categories: merchant, analogy, april,
Form: Free verse



Jesus the Merchant
He taught in stone temples bricks built on law, in the streets, he preached and the people did thirst at his heavenly decree, that could raise nations from the daunting sea. Found on the highway of the king of Jerusalem, Jesus Bar Joseph, crown of crowns on his fabulous mane, He was like a merchant buying goods for our souls selling in the marketplace old memories, old songs. Till...

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Categories: merchant, angel, beauty, bible, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sitkan Spice Merchant
Fish flesh ceiling marinades evening in mandarin Paprika streaks Alaskan sky, an exploded pumpkin Garish stretch marks bruise tumid buttocks Jack-o'-lantern flicker silhouettes summits Door open draught steers me over masts, a compass North chill Turmeric tingle bitterness burns sun jus Snuffs frail wick candle into...

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Categories: merchant, allusion, animal, bird, red,
Form: Couplet
Source Merchant Part 2
Well when the need for more space was mentioned, one fella spoke and said our wives have chored and labored and have seemed to be more obedeaint, maybe we could build a space were they can cook together and make clothes together leaving the chores to be sorted out amongest them. all agreed and built these places they wanted this year to end with a place to...

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Categories: merchant, adventure, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Bio



The Source Merchant Part 1
They all admitted to Loving there husbands Men of valure, witt and Bijou whats right in winter Is different in fall and the surfaces of both summers and spring change with the seasons on cited. they named there husbands all Source Merchants and desided one man would have the honor to make them all pregant while they pretended to be at the reherstal of the Womens Pagent. The most handsome man in the land...

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Categories: merchant, adventure, beautiful, business, character,
Form: Ballad
Love Is Not Merchant
Love is not a merchant it doesn't keep count it's not how much or what but why and how it counts Better dandelions from heart of love than diamonds from heart of stone Third Place Winner - Jack Webster: Workshop Adjectives Deleted...

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Categories: merchant, love,
Form: Free verse
The Merchant Seaman
He was turbulent, fearful, and a dipsomaniac. He was dead to the target, undeniable emulation of his father. So I've been told. Equated with many of his uneducated and socially stigmatized peers, starting at an early age he worked menial jobs until he married and asserted himself to a position on a cargo ship as a...

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Categories: merchant, father,
Form: Narrative
Realities Fixed Price
Realities of life will not relent ...

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Categories: merchant, depression, emotions, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Word Merchant
In a crisp surge Watch tale emerge In strokes that urge Poise in clear choice Fling succinct voice To forfeit noise Words shift and shape To dive and drape The final cape Works of pure grace Now fits the face Where time holds place Leon Enriquez 27 October 2019 Singapore...

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Categories: merchant, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Ne Jamais Repliquer
5 cups of heavy cream 3 cups of pureed shrimps 2 cup of crawfish 2 cups of crab meat 1 1/2 cup of cooked polish sausage( minced) 5 cups of chicken stock 1/2 cup of olive oil and flour roux( 1/2 c of flour and 1/2 olive oil cook tannish brown) 2 tablespoons of cayenne pepper 1 cup of sauteed onions 1 cup...

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Categories: merchant, adventure, culture, fish, food,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Merchant
Buy and sell Cast odd spell Goods now churn A kind turn Lots to please In fine ease Tease and toss Bear with loss Earn your keep Smile and weep Deep dream daze Craft fine craze Odds and ends Bleed your blend Gain not vain Stake most plain Quest for more Fill your stores On the way Live fine play Cash is king Watch time fling Leon Enriquez 27 September 2018 Singapore...

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Categories: merchant, allegory,
Form: Couplet
Merchant Fleet
The merchant ship The ship leaves Rotterdam sail to the med, and through the Suez channel into the red sea, the vessel arrives at an oil terminal and all you see is pipelines storage tanks and sand, then the ship goes back the same way. The sea in its different mood can be lovely to look at but after some time...

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Categories: merchant, arabic, business, candy,
Form: Blank verse
The Merchant Handbook
When in Spring with leaves turned to green Eyes, hands & face There lived one man with a thirst To live in the moment between space & time Selling his pots and pans to get by Although the years would pass he had every reason to grasp The true message of his heart was found in a book Inside was filled with...

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Categories: merchant, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Merchant Beguile
the merchant beguile sat not sanded, miracle mile what went where whence was their way, around the fence in American fen gators and crossbow sickened accosted absolutely aware awed without care float and flutter your way through this life see me clear back to my wife...

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Categories: merchant, absence, adventure, america,
Form: Free verse

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