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Greed Poems - Poems about Greed
Greed Poems - Examples of all types of poems about greed to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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The Inevitable
What could have been more expected from a system created of greed But a nation that’s run by a cadre of the worst which humanity breeds Their obsession with money and power are the perfect dictatorship...
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Samia Ali Salama
Categories:
greed,
america, political, rights,
Form:
Rhyme
Three-peat Greed
~ 3-Syllable Footle ~ Eagles dared Chiefs just stared Mahomes stopped ...
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
greed,
football, loss,
Form:
Couplet
Greed governs some love
Humans, long a self-seeking breed, Oft concoct love foreseeing need. With tender grass lush green Does a butcher fatten His sheep in his own selfish greed. ___________________ Translation |37.01.2025| Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam....
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Aniruddha Pathak
Categories:
greed,
love, men, self,
Form:
Quintain (English)
All you need to know about Greed
Greed does not care if you refuse to listen, and give it a feed. Greed does not care if you go without a feed, to fill more and yet more pockets, so...
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David Smith
Categories:
greed,
absence, abuse, addiction, allusion,
Form:
Burlesque
The Baggage We Carry
A life of things. Material and meaningless objects. I know that the contents are trivial but what am I without the case? What have I to show for myself and my life? A pack of cigarettes...
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Chloe Jasper
Categories:
greed,
11th grade, addiction, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale of Greed and Redemption
A Tale of Greed and Redemption His eyes, sharp as daggers, seek endless gain, Never satisfied, his greed he must sustain. Gold and silver shimmer in his fevered dream, But in the quiet night, he hears a hollow scream. He...
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Fatime El-Masri
Categories:
greed,
religious,
Form:
Rhyme
Realizing Wealth And Greed
Not always the wheel of life Leads us to success At the time we fall, we fall down Until we do not realized our fault, our sin Nothing goodness will happen We forget arrogance and the proudness of wealth We realized...
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Hugo Sarvida Jr.
Categories:
greed,
evil, life, perspective, truth,
Form:
Free verse
LA is on fire and I’m a sitting duck
My skin crawls as I watch a hand, disembodied, reach yet again into the Tollhouse bag. Bright, artificial yellow. It burns my eyes. Countless chocolate chips are shoveled down my gullet as if crumbs to a wretched, starving creature. I’m only...
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Somebody Somewhere
Categories:
greed,
anger, corruption, environment, hate,
Form:
Free verse
The night they know is bright as day
There’s children growing up that believe the stars sound like crickets chirping, for their only exposure to these sources of wonder are through over-exposure to blue light and radio waves and soundtracks overlaying simulations. The night they know is bright as...
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Somebody Somewhere
Categories:
greed,
anger, children, earth, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Greed
It tarnishes the void we try to fill, life on Earth gives need for it still, harder we work the faster we fade, calloused existence isn't something we evade, given fuel by what we think we need, desire, hunger, thirst;...
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Garrett Bass
Categories:
greed,
corruption, money, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Am I a fiction?
...
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©
Kishore R R
Categories:
greed,
philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
THE MERCHANTS OF MAYHEM
In the realm of deceit, some souls reside, Gullible hearts, fertile grounds for evil to abide. As they sit, concocting chaos, their minds astray, Weaving webs of wickedness, night and day. Their slumber's filled with visions of malevolence and...
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Philip Abayomi Olorunfemi
Categories:
greed,
africa, america, analogy, anti
Form:
Lyric
Annetjie
Demon comes with smiles Very carefully veiled wiles Prod another to take the fall A Victim through it all Demon guise as a mother Looking for another to smother A wife a husbands fall foretell She will see everyone burn in hell Demon...
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Cathrin Vici Kiehm
Categories:
greed,
evil, jealousy, metaphor, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Greed’s Reflection
It never taught you greed— you were fluent long before that. It simply shone, like sunlight revealing dust in an empty room. The hands that took it, clutched it, hoarded it, already understood the language of desire. And in its brief hold, you confused its...
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Ramon Riveraalmena
Categories:
greed,
9th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Vigilant Sword
All work ethics and human virtues, he hoards for twenty-five years, he has never stepped on mud in him, civil service has a lord every signboard shows he’s a man of his word against financial crimes, his clothings include...
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Funom Makama
Categories:
greed,
appreciation, corruption, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
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