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Best Affluent Poems

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Premium Member Grandma Still Calls Your Name
I will always remember those uneven paths,
which led me to you - 
sorrowful reminder of promises I could not keep.
All you wanted was to sit...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: affluent, death, grandfather, grandson,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Glamour
When splendor shimmers hypnotized glance
O, glamour, how captivating is your stance,
Aesthetic, harmonious, brushstrokes of art,
Flaring embers of elation in enamored heart.

Opulence of your aura lights...

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Categories: affluent, art, beauty, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Invisible: Co-Written With C Devonshire
clad in rags, he wanders on Wall Street
   he is invisible to hustling stock brokers
       he is...

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Categories: affluent, remember, veterans day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Started a Joke - POTD
POTD 21 November 2017

So professional in his lies - So ruthless in his ambition
Feeding lies to the simple folk - convincing in his deception
Telling them...

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Categories: affluent, betrayal, corruption, grief, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Lines
assorted like the washing on its lines
the words appeared along my way
in bunches of neat paragraphs    
they briskly flapped into my mind
still...

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Categories: affluent, allegory, friendship, life,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member The Day My Lover Left
A spiritual sickness enveloped my stagnant heart.
I searched for her in darkened obscure visions,
A futile illusory chase that led to a desert of love.
Had I...

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Categories: affluent, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wind Beneath My Wings, Tribute to Elena

“ Did I ever tell you, you are my hero? 
  Did I ever tell you, you are everything 
  I wanted to...

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Categories: affluent, birthday, inspiration, mother daughter,
Form: Ode
Prostitution
I do not belong to your affluent society,

nor do I live at your mercy

A victim of social circumstances.

You sell your art and I bank on...

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© Red Fiery  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: affluent, social, sympathy, body,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Destiny's Clutch
The dawn spoke her name like a silken secret
carried carefree by the tradewinds of lust and larceny
imported from the traderoutes of paradise and pandemonium, 
sequined...

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Categories: affluent, courage, desire, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Epic
Winners and Losers
Are winners defined by prowess
In business or in sport
Or by intellectual power 
Backed by academic report?

Is losing determined 
By lack of financial wealth
In lieu of...

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Categories: affluent, black african american, destiny,
Form: Ballad
Clocks Ticking To Politicking
(Read later stanzas for more of the humour part ; parody of politics)

I Can't think well of a democracy
if nepotism and false promises
are part and...

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Categories: affluent, international, parody, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Can No Longer Be a Duchess
Affluent and formal
pink lilies deck the tables;
we await the 
sweet, affected 
laughter of our  friends.
Bedecked in bouffant hair-do's
perfumes, ermines, jewels
brocades and buckled shoes,
we dazzle,...

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Categories: affluent, fantasy, farewell, identity,
Form: Free verse
Tea Party
Lies glamour gossip and Earl Grey tea 
turbulent tales boiling in China cups 
elegant sacraments of blue-haired ladies 
pinkies stuck up in the air, hiding...

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Categories: affluent, beauty,
Form: Free verse
A - Anarchy
A. Anarchy

Amber autumn aflame
An aroma of ash appeases the adamant arsonist; the artful anarchist
An audacious attempt at attacking back at our arbitrary accommodations
The ascended advocate...

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Categories: affluent, america, art, community, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poverty - Potw
"living in a man-made island,
with blinded eyes, and unfeeling heart" (Quote By Poet)


What do we know about poverty,
What do we understand about suffering…
It’s a miracle...

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Categories: affluent, poverty, sympathy,
Form: Free verse

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