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Have Nots

Nabody cares have nots
Planning budget laws
Order judgement
All are for
Welfare of have nots
All aim at developement
No body cares have nots
Have nots are only have nots.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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"The "haves" and "have nots" can be traced back to the "dids" and "did nots."

quote by Anthony Klco
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Shuffling Among the 'Nots

Shuffling among the 'nots'!
Those who have,
Can keep what they've got.
I like the nonchalants.
They seem to have...
Lots of moxie.

The 'haves' seem to shell out a lot.
All boxed in and slick like foxes.
The 'nots' don't mind downing shots.
From a bottle that's passed to a neighbor,
Who labors.
While the 'haves' always want to cop!
And sip champagne with caviar nonstop!

Shuffling among the 'nots'!
Those who have,
Can keep what they've got.
I like the nonchalants.
They seem to have...
Lots of moxie.

Nobody brags about who has finally made it!
Or give shade while eating marmalade.
Nobody I know fakes it.
If they got it in their pocket...
No one is amazed.

Or talk about their chauffeurs,
Or laying off lazy maids.

The 'haves' seem to shell out a lot.
All boxed in and slick like foxes.
The 'nots' don't mind downing shots.
From a bottle that's passed to a neighbor,
Who labors.
While the 'haves' always want to cop!
And sip champagne with caviar nonstop!

Shuffling among the 'nots'!
Those who have,
Can keep what they've got.
I like the nonchalants.
They seem to have...
Lots of moxie.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Alliterative Rambling

I often wondered why manmade laws fail.
They are canny compromised concoctions
Agreed to by gregarious, greedy
Souls with agendas, agents for the rich.
These representatives repeatedly
Parrot party politics to pave the
Way to enactment. Actors on a stage
Playing roles with planned scripts from you know whom.
Feigning their motions with faintest vigor
That only con their constituencies.
As long as there are have and have-nots
The have-nots will always want; the haves keep.
The rich control the governing body
Middle-class mental midgets elect them.

poem by Albert Ahearn
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Clutching Onto Their 'Teddy Bears

Now I know ya'll don' heard this before.
About how those chose to have things done.
And assigning to those they liked,
Tasks they should not have had.
But given inspite...
Of a total lack of comprehension.

Not even a convention of people like these,
Could create between them a credible thought.
And yet they have been paid...
To deliver to you just what you've got!
Making it extremely easy today to detect...
The 'have nots' and those who 'had'.

The only changes the 'have nots' must endure...
Are the sniffling cries of those dragging their blankets.
And clutching onto their 'teddy bears'.
And these very same folk,
Pledge their allegiances to wars!
Dressed in their Sunday best.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The Workings Of Human Life

The workings of human life beyond me to explain
How one person's loss is another one's gain
And why some see greed as okay does seem puzzling to me
In this Human world of inequality
The pauper, the homeless, the poor refugee
A quarter of the World's human population in dire poverty
And billions of have nots are doing it tough
Whilst the privileged minority have far more than enough
Of money and every material thing
Yet many too many their praises do sing
In an age when poverty exists everywhere
Life is so hard for many in the big World out there
In a Human world where the gap between the haves and the have nots grow wide
Far too many of a fair go in life are denied.

poem by Francis Duggan
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That's Life One Must Suppose

At the bottom of the social rank and low in self esteem
That's where the haves want to keep the have nots or that's how it does seem
For every new member of the millionaires club there is more poverty
And that people of malnutrition die does not make sense to me,
When many have far more than enough but not enough to satisfy their greed
For them 'twould seem that much wants more that does seem sad indeed
Though some quite wealthy people some of their profits share
Amongst the struggling have nots of the bigger World out there
The social gap keeps widening getting bigger every day
And the poor are getting poorer or so 'twould seem that way
Many hungry and homeless and low in social rank
For the poverty of millions we do have greed to thank
Some have to go for months on end without a change of clothes
And the poor keep getting poorer that's life one must suppose.

poem by Francis Duggan
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Ways Of Life

Strange are the ways of life
With all its ups and downs....
The wheels of fortune turns
And all of a sudden
Haves become have-nots,
Have-nots become haves...
But what must happen
does happen
and we have to face it all
with courage and a steely resolve...

Strange are the ways of life
With all its ups and downs...
The morning alarm rings
and all of a sudden,
Fear and anxiety threaten
to suffocate me to death.
Then I remind myself
But what must happen
does happen
and I must face it all
with courage and a steely resolve...

poem by Jasbir Chatterjee
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Indulged By Extravagance

With a dose of sugar.
And lots of forget-me-nots...
Haven't we all been induced with fantasy?
Feeling 'exclusive'
And detriment free!

Able to do what we wish and please.
While feeding on an ignorance,
Indulged by extravagance.
As we pass judgements with glee.

Haven't we all been hypnotized,
By a way of life,
We believe produces jealousy.

And now we find we are behind the times.
With a feasting of our gluttony...
Causing a democracy,
To bleed from an endless greed.
With a desire that reality,
Is a delusion someday will go away!

With a dose of sugar.
And lots of forget-me-nots...
Haven't we all been induced,
With fantasy?
Feeling 'exclusive'
That our needs we feed,
Are detriment free!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Juvenile Earth

What pleasure thou begets by not
Showering traits on those who need not
The brain they desire not
Or is it
To make them realise
The importance of have and have nots

Buddha the apostle of peace
Was born to lead
He ostracised the lead
Disrupting Manu's code
Which established societies bonds.

You have no means
You want to achieve
Desire to achieve
Buried by the meagre means.

The optimum strength of youth
Found a new cradle - the blackhole.
Improvisations they find, in age
And stretch towards the State
That which comes only once
In the blackhole spent
Age, when it comes never leaves
Instead age has to be left behind
Realisations of haves and have nots
Then, left far behind

Arn't we all
Young and old
Living in his laboratory
Code named - Earth
Are tools of his research
The research for an ideal world.

poem by Sanjay Mehta
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There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots.

quote by Miguel de Cervantes
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between the have
and have nots
London fire

haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Of The Selfish Side Of Humanity

Of the selfish side of Humanity I am only too aware
In a World where the self centred for the have nots one thought don't have to spare
Even in so called wealthy Democratic Countries poverty is not rare
And thousands must grow poorer for every new millionaire
So many Homeless and Stateless people in the bigger World out there
The have nots of Humanity are living everywhere
That all people are equal is born of a lie
But there is more to being Human than living for me, myself and I
In most cases those who talk of life choices do not know what they are on about
If they themselves life's necessities had never had to go without
If they themselves never lived as the homeless poor of Poor Poverty Street
Then their preaching is judgemental and their ideas are obsolete
To be born to poor parents and become Homeless is a thing that none would choose
In a Human World where for a minority to win so many have to lose.

poem by Francis Duggan
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forget- me-nots...
the first blooms in her garden
with a For Sale sign

haiku by Chenou Liu
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

quote by Miguel de Cervantes
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Create New Chapters Made

You like to dropp those 'have nots' you've got.
But need to stop growing them like crops!
And take them away,
Today!

Pity party chatter that you gather like it matters.
Is not a page you should keep re-read or save.
If your life is lived in a way you say is craved.

Singing songs of what is wrong all day long,
Wont keep you strong.
Let them be!
Why desire that as company?

You like to dropp those 'have nots' you've got.
But need to stop growing them like crops!
And take them away,
Today!

Pity party chatter that you gather like it matters.
Is not a page you should keep re-read or save.
If your life is lived in a way you say is craved.
Then you've got to seek more meaning.
Turn that page and create new chapters made.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Sport Just A Diversion

The anthem of Australian Rules Football the song known as 'We'll be there'
And Aussie Rules fans who do not know this song by heart to say the least quite rare
On Saturday after the game at the M C G in groups as they walk along the street
A song sung by the winning fans since victory is sweet.

They sing 'We were there when the boys became the men' their religion is football
And they tell all of those who wish to hear 'the greatest game of all'
But sport is just a diversion from the big problems out there
In the World where the haves make more and the have nots live in despair

Of ever getting anywhere in life they live in poverty
They live their dreams through the success of celebrities that they see on t.v.
And sport is a diversion for them from the reality
Of ever knowing success themselves suppose what is to be will be.

Sport just a diversion from reality for the have nots to enjoy
Poor teenagers dream of sporting fame a dream for most that die
Before they reach their forties when they come to realize
That life is very different when seen through ageing eyes

poem by Francis Duggan
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Islamic Tax

We should give tax
To make the government capable
Of performing its duties properly

Tax is for the welfare of the nation
And it is a way to reduce the gap
Between the haves and the have-nots

Tax should not be a burden for the people
And it should be imposed in such a manner
So that the masses are benefited from it

Tax is another way to go to paradise
And the countrymen should be aware of it
So that the government is not deprived
Of revenue that it deserves

poem by Asif Andalib
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That Millions Do Live In Poverty

That millions do live in poverty should never be seen as okay
The gap between the haves and the have nots keeps getting bigger by the day
Everyone should have the chance to live happy a home to live in and enough for to eat
There never should be slums and ghettos and never a poverty street,
That millions are born to live in poverty and to end their hard lives in despair
Only tells us if there's a god that god favours the wealthy and that god is not very fair
To leave millions homeless and dying of malnutrition the people condemned to die poor and young
In the refugee camps of the World live the displaced, the poor and unsung,
In the age of celebrity worship the poor in millions multiply
Why millions are destined to be poor don't ask me I wouldn't know why
Even in the World's wealthiest Countries poor people are no longer rare
And millions and millions of have nots in the bigger World out there
And millions are dying of hunger and millions are doing it tough
And millions are displaced and homeless and as refugees living it rough.

poem by Francis Duggan
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Flowers of Horror

People who love flowers
Cannot be bad
Says the proverb.

But take the insight
With a grain of salt
For malignant hands
Can turn flowers
Into graceless means
Of lies and deception.

During World War II
The National Socialists
Perfected the dark art
Of deceit by exploiting
The beauty of nature
To disguise and shroud
Their fiendish goals
Of ruin and destruction.

The skies darkened then
Even in the sunshine
Violets trembled
And forget-me-nots
Whispered worries
Wobbling in the wind.

Sixty km north of Prague
A barbed wire fence
Above the camp gate
Of Terezin, the sign said:
Arbeit macht frei.

Here the Nazis set up
The model ghetto
Theresienstadt where
Work made the inmates
Free and they could plant
Colourful flowers.

Buds of starvation
Blossoms of death.

Do not worry
The daffodils said.
This is a friendly place
The hyacinths sighed.
Do not revolt
The roses rustled.

Yet the daisies shuddered
And forget-me-nots
Whispered worries
Wobbling in the wind.

On the roads of Galicia
Between Lublin and Lvov
In east Poland behind
The barbed wire fences
Of Belzec geranium pots
Lined the path
To the gas chambers.

Buds of starvation
Blossoms of death.

The skies darkened then
Even in the sunshine
Violets trembled
And forget-me-nots
Whispered worries
Wobbling in the wind.

poem by Paul Hartal
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Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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