Best Fortune Poems

Britches and snitches
Were out digging ditches
When out from the ground did appear
 
Gold that looked old
if the truth now be told
It was something someone would hold dear
 
A crown from the town
Just a little ways down
Perhaps it belonged to the king
 
With tools they found...

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My heart shrivels dry, blackened rose in bitter anguish, ...
 Do you feel my pain? 
   Why must the flame of day dwindle dim? 
    O' fortune, like the moon, changeable, waxing and waning
      ...

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Don't rip your heart open too deep
(All they'll see are the valves and the veins)
Don't puke out your guts in one heap
(All they'll smell is the rotten Chow Mein)

Footnote: I decided to enter this as my worst poem because it really stinks and makes me...

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I was an invaluable bank teller, loving peaceful life and daisy blue sky days,
Like yellow sun warming sweet seasons, inducing vibrant, natural displays.

I left for pleasant work every day, with a determined and practical purpose;
And I was happy in my job thoroughly, as colorful clowns...

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Fortune and fame 
Were her fathers demands
Or accept the shame
Of him refusing her hand .

So as we kissed that night
On her balcony
I held her tight
and told her I was going to sea .

I would travel the oceans
Vast and wide
and prove my devotion
To make her my...

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Lovely lady you know I am a drifter
Life didn’t need to move any swifter,
So many tales over the years,
A drifters life doesn’t consist of fears.

When I told you all about my days,
I’d hoped that in so many ways,
I could take your hand and sing to...

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Fortune tellers come and go
Palms are read to say it’s so
But I don’t need some cards to know my life

I’ll love you till the day I die
And then forever dear, will I
Watch over you through joy and pain and strife

Fortune hunters spend their time
Seeking gold...

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From way up high looking down on Earth
Living up on some clouds to the west
Is my guardian angel watching over me
Not allowing hard times and unrest

Blessed with good fortune and a happy life
Pretty lucky when I hear people mutter
It hasn't been a popular trend among...

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OLD FOLKS ARE WORTH A FORTUNE

Old folks are worth A fortune
With silver in their hair, gold in
Their teeth, stones in their kidneys,
Lead in their feet and gas in their stomachs

I have become more social the passing
Of the years. I’m seeing five gentlemen every day
As soon...

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Everyone has a seat as fate is spun
on the ambiguous simple machine,
which circles surely as Earth does the Sun.

People have daily battles to be won,
from lowly peasants to a regal queen,
everyone has a seat as fate is spun.

Origins of happiness can have begun
as a sorrowful,...

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When the world ends
There will be more
More tears than you can imagine
More tears than when a mother
Loses her unborn child because someone hit her
More tears than when a young boy
Gets hit by a car
When he gets off the bus 
On his way home from school
But...

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My mother had a treasured ornament
A big brown shire horse
To the mind of a ten year old 
This was a toy of course .
It was a steed for my action figures
A target for my toy gun
It carried cavalry and Indians
Giving me hours of fun.

One day...

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Limelight can burn;it never heals,
no matter fame how good it feels -
succombing to excesses, worse,
resisting not temptation's curse....

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She beckoned me to enter her world of mystery
Incense, smoke and mirrors, and untold witchery 
I started walking by her, but something pulled me in 
And so I dropped my money in her ancient box of tin 

She led me through a corridor, into a...

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The reading was awesome, but left him in fear.
Fortune Teller's Crystal Ball said "Face your face".
So he checked in the mirror from ear to ear.
The wrinkles were one thing he'd like to erase.

Otherwise, the contours were handsome and strong,
But he worried over Fortune's eerie tell.
He...

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