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Greed Poems - Poems about Greed

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Premium Member FEED ON GREED
We must learn how to win in money making game. By stealth we go grabbing and not think of the shame. Let’s watch the wise ones play ...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, money,
Form: Rhyme
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;...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, corruption, money, sin,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Am I a fiction?
Categories: greed, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

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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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, evil, jealousy, metaphor, poems,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Greed’s Reflection
It never taught you greed— you were already fluent long before. 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...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, appreciation, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Consumer Greed
They say the root of all evil is money Taking from everyone with their cunning I think most Americans would agree Their having trouble feeding their family Going to the grocery store is extreme Charging too much due to greed Don’t...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, community, corruption, culture, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On a rope woven from ancestral nightmares and the greed of shadow monsters
On a rope woven from ancestral nightmares and the greed of shadow monsters, I step with bare feet, while my thoughts dance chaotically in a penumbra, Between dream and reality, between sky and earth, between here and...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This is Happy Land, The World's Playground
'Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses' Jack the ripper, he slept with a whore, and became deadly ill While his soulmate Jill became suicidal dependent on...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, birthday, conflict, culture, dark,
Form: Narrative
Innovation Of Greed
Patents brought us greed As Nikolai Tesla modernize technology Thinkers and the so-called inventors copy Most of Tesla's invention to innovation While Tesla died in penury and underprivileged His innovators became rich and wealthy....Read the rest...
Categories: greed, prejudice, science, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Greed
Greedy, bitter, jealous, and lustful women with free range Unfortunately the masks are off; they will be treated estrange, Impersonating many people with prideful alter ego capacity Self absorbing made them all grin and behave with audacity, The investigation...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, america, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trailer Park
After work at Google, I sat with the guys I said we were elite, enlightened and wise We had to censor those in this benighted nation Who spread disruptive disinformation. A Venture Cap named Hank said this isn't fair He...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, america, culture, discrimination, humor,
Form: Lyric
Wake me up from this shock
You lead the park but scare no sheep, An ewe went astray while you sleep, Why weren't you on call round the clock? To care for and protect the flock. Your meow is just too soft a bleep, No shepherd...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, anger, animal, betrayal, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Talent Stifled
Middle aged man in Docs, vintage leather jacket and grey haired pubes around his cock. Ill fitting tour shirts rekindling a hazy past. Barrowlands, The Bunnymen. Hammersmith Odeon,The Clash. U2 at University pre Bono crawling up his own ****. Danced...Read the rest...
Categories: greed, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry

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