Best Avarice Poems

The path was long and arduous
And night began to veer
O’er trees, and lanes and rusted gates
Its' shadows breeding fear

Unbridled Wind wisped ‘round
Tombstone crosses where
Hissing its’ frustration
Loudly in despair

It sought to nourish fears
The shadows did create
Searching everywhere to find
It’s soul-less night-time mate.

Moonbeam light kissed the Night
Claiming...

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Pandora, Oh Pandora, you're to blame
Man's avarice has doomed us, one and all
So blatantly we covet without shame
And turn our heads away, when beggars call.

In fact, it is a shared character flaw
For who among us here, desires less?
Do you feel like your portion is too...

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Scampering scurrying savages salvage soiled scraps
Hoping Hurrying helps hasten hoarding hunger
Watching women weep while wishing
Childish chants, chastising chosen children, creating chaos cloaks, confusing
Mankind’s morals, misguiding muses manipulate molding meaningless media minds
Vanquish villainous voices via vested 
Compassion, congenial caring considering 
Helping humanity heighten 
Internal integrity increasing...

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A tattered, ragged leather bag
hides faded photos wrapped inside;
both black and white and kodachrome
reveal lost dreams once held with pride.

An older, colder man made weak,
by sojourns made so long ago,
has paid with shame a painful price
for bitter seeds he chose to sow.

Consumed by youthful avarice,
success...

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Here is the secret monologue of many:

"I am loyal, a servant most true!
That is until...I am not paid in full,
Then I turn to tattle, and to trash
Your trust with treason, high and foul!
As dreaded foes tread freely upon you,
I will make merry in your misery!"

"You...

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The spider 
whose web I've been 
crashing at 
is getting kind of 
sick of me. 
  
I guess it's about 
time I strike 
out on my own, and see 
what I can  
make of myself. 
  
I stepped onto 
the sidewalk, 
and...

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Avarice

To sit at the right hand of God,
See the Angels read from evil lists,
The great whore of Babylon, aint happy,
 she has the greed of the Devils mist,

money was made in the mines were,
a greedy un sufferable ditch,
not enough to be worth many millions,
cheap labor,...

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An Avarice Moon

The avarice moon is high tonight,
a forked tongue's bizarre delight.
Loose lips will never hesitate
to speak in fashionable hate
about the how and why of those
whose fortune only grows and grows.

I guess we just don't understand
in the same way those people can
that sometimes two and...

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Malignant Avarice
                by Odin Roark

How pernicious
This featureless monster
Lurking in shadows of cravings
Knowing well its metastasizing power

The child in man squints
Observing the ghost like presence
Segueing centuries past
Where both kings and peasants
Priests...

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None will step up, own up to their advice;
we pay the price for the choices we make.
Like plumage of Birds of God are mistaken
for wealth, it’s a roll of the loaded dice.   
...

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As man ceaselessly aspires
For the things he greatly admires
His avarice seldom expires
But kindles lofty desires
That burns like raging fire
Long after his quests areacquired...

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We mere mortals,
Are but temporal beings.
Drowned by the wine of luxuries 
That life has to offer.
That being said, still suffices not
(Countless, numerous sins ongoing
Creating, still dreaming 
Of robots never-ending)
The forgotten warmth near the fireplace
And those which are eternal
Just to be swept away
By the broomsticks of...

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In youth, one's greed may turn gold into bliss

but one grown poor and old need just learn this:

Who does not hold an urn in which to piss, 

must earn joy then, through love, not avarice...

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out back of the barn
I watch you hitch a wagon

to the fine draft mare
your last harvest bought 

'tis I would be behind her, 
had I seen her first
(and had I a cart)

while you travel in comfort,
I ruin my good feet

why should she be yours??

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Written: 10/28/2018
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Oh I do like a good curry
spicy and hot, 
with a lot of flavor,
fresh herbs and spices.
But I abhor your flattery
to fawn and curry favor
in vile ingratiation.
Such curry has a bitter flavour
and nips the bud of any favor sought.
It's a dish of foul curry and...

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