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Best Five Dollar Bill Poems

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Premium Member The Lie I Told
I was walking toward a local shop,
when I felt a tug on my sleeve
What I saw made me stop
I knew I wouldn't get to leave.

A...

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Categories: five dollar bill, child, giving, love, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Preacher
PREACHER

the preacher explains
as he travels tracks on his palm
he is on god’s path
helter-skelter tracks indeed!
the midnight express toots warning

reverend smith
with his superior air
mounts the podium
from...

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Categories: five dollar bill, humorous,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Fool's Gold
On the main floor of the bus station in the windy city,             ...

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Categories: five dollar bill, analogy, chicago, evil, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Cleaning Out the Car
Today my husband and I decided to clean out the car, together.
Only I thought I was doing it alone, until he came out.
Okay, I quit,...

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Categories: five dollar bill, fun, funny, funny love,
Form: Free verse
Getting Clean and Sober
Getting clean and sober.
Tired of all the beatings and the hatred of the people for the poor and homeless 
man
Working and justifying all eye am.
Working...

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Categories: five dollar bill, forgiveness, happiness, hope, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member At the Hollywood Plaza With Eddie and Dolores
Anti-Poem – “At The Hollywood Plaza With Eddie And Dolores”

(Poet’s Instruction – Kindly play “You Can’t Be True, Dear,” by Ken Griffin, 1946, while reading).

she...

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Categories: five dollar bill, america, fantasy, imagination, romantic
Form: Free verse
You Look Like a Soldier To Me
They drafted my body for South Vietnam,
I said take a look, Can’t you see what I am?
A gay and a Commie and I take LSD,
They...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: five dollar bill, funnyme, home, home, me,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Little Jewelry Box
As a very young child,                    ...

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Categories: five dollar bill, heaven, love, money, world,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Saving Abe
Written on 7/27/2021
By Gail R DeBole
Updated on 8/17/2021

My granddad’s five-dollar bill in hand
Was blown by a breeze through farmland.
 Our dog, King, “saved the Abe”
Fetched...

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Categories: five dollar bill, animal, dog, grandfather, grandparents,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Chrissy
I believe in synchronicity and the wonders therein contained…
I believe in angels and miracles and the mystery of the unexplained.

Chrissy was a friend of our...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: five dollar bill, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
A White Sealed Envelope
A five dollar bill in my name.
A white sealed up envelope.
A white handkerchief of forgotten spring.
A gold ring.
Sparks that fly through the sky.
The forces of...

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Categories: five dollar bill, inspirational, life, uplifting, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Mrs Kays Halloween House
We all avoided Miss Kay’s house; she was an old maid.
No one wanted to get moldy cookies or pink lemonade.
We ran past her stoop, not...

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Categories: five dollar bill, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
A Encounter To Remember
I sat at the counter in the corner coffee shop sipping a latte.  It was a dark dreary 
rainy   day.  I...

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Categories: five dollar bill, nostalgiame, heart, woman, hair,
Form: Free verse
Hell Hath No Fury
hell's present
don't you remember?
the game they played
as addictive as it was

Set this off

surrounded by demons here
playing the same game

did you forget something?
remember me?
your hell hath...

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Categories: five dollar bill, angst, confusion, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Raised Baby
She insisted on her own way.
Every holiday was at her house.
I am the matriarch, she said. I have the most children.
So I had thirteen, because...

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Categories: five dollar bill, humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry

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