The Penny and The Diamond

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    • If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I dole out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I may boast but have not love, nothing I am profited. Love is long suffering, love is kind, it is not jealous, love does not boast, it is not inflated. It is not discourt

    The Penny and The Diamond
    A penny or a diamond she asks
    Which would you prefer sir
    Obviously a trick question I propose
    No she says, whichever you choose
    You may buy this rose or this weed
    Please, why do you play these games
    It’s all the same mister she whispers
    Dazed and confused bruised and bleeding
    I don’t understand what I’ve praised
    What I’m reading what I’ve raised
    The seeds you’ve planted
    Am I believing in a greedy God
    Or dreaming of a false lit up sky
    Tied tightly to an electric rod
    Quit thinking so much and decide
    So will it be this penny or this diamond?
    Well woman now that you ask
    I’ll take the shiny diamond, it’s so pretty
    Now what can I get for this?
    I have not eaten for days
    Ever since the great plague
    And she replies
    Well this loaf of bread cost a pretty penny.

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    ginga commented on The Penny and The Diamond

    12-29-2009

    pocket, A sophisticated tale of morals and temptation that pits one character against the other. I love these fable type poems. Bravo! ginga
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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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