Best Barons Poems

A hippopotamus in a tree is never the same as a forty foot sunbathing prawn with sunglasses. For in the eyes of the cool breeze not all can be delivered as speedily as a fish and chip tea on a promenade. So when skipping in...

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To make money do what you may
And let no rules come in your way,
Capitalism blares
As laissez-faire declares
Wild ways to thievery,
Packaged nigh cleverly
For robber barons of today,
Who should look in mirror
To reflect on error
And ponder, made they are of clay.
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Happenings |19.11.2024|money, business, mirror

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The cattle barons rode into town
They were dressed in blah, black and brown
Faces stoic and plain
Bulls of Iowa fame
They marched to the square to confront the clown

The clown was frightened of these big six
There was not a happy one in the mix
Hamburger? No way!
We are...

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See-
a stone on which we people stumble;
a rock on which we all shall fall.

though they be lifted to kings
and sit on velvet thrones
still shall the stumble and fall.

though they be Barons who laugh and sing
they to shall stumble and fall.

and we, through struggle and trouble...

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