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Best Greediest Poems

Below are the all-time best Greediest poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of greediest poems written by PoetrySoup members


Playing Possum Poker

Politics is a cat-and-mouse poker game,
	     Some play it well,
others not so much
Amateurs show their hidden hand,
they got an easy-to-spot tell
But...

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Categories: greediest, corruption, political, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse



The Eating Habits of Vanilla Gussett
I am me!

I am beautiful greediest me!

I'm quite simply gigantic, enormous, colossal- bigantic!

I'm huge I'm not small I could fill Albert hall -

What a beautiful...

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Categories: greediest, food, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Audacity of Man
What splendid creatures God has formed.
I think of whales who swim above the silt,
giants of the sea that are cruelly harmed,
harpooned from life by men...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greediest, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Where Greed Hides Herself
the people's money
they called it porked
inside a barrel 
that can be inserted 
on the greediest pockets
tax from sweat and blood
of the working class
that strive
to find...

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Categories: greediest, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Termite Jill
(Dedicated to all booklovers who have lost their loved ones to the scourge of the termite hordes - I did)

I thought I was a bibliophile
and...

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Categories: greediest, fun, funny, humor, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Saint Patrick Day Leprechaun
Dragon sat in the bushes all night long, for he wanted to catch himself a Leprechaun.
See Leprechauns have gold by the buckets full, and Dragon...

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Categories: greediest, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Corporate Whores and Company Men
corporate whores & company men

hollowed out somewhere along the line,
sitting on the shelf, waiting for the promised
glory, 
every bit of style designed by others pushing
them...

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Categories: greediest, life, drug,
Form: Free verse
Hold On Tight
Hold on tight,
get ready for the storm,
better seek shelter,
a place safe from harm.
It is upon us,
inflation gone wild,
bull is everywhere,
pile after pile.
What has happened,
I fell...

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Categories: greediest, confusion, history, life, people,
Form: Narrative
The Meeting With Satan 1
I am the way to the city of woe, I am the way to the forsaken people, I am the way to eternal sorrows, sacred...

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Categories: greediest, religion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My View From the Porch
Only stupid people call people stupid
Only losers will cheat in order to win
Only inferior people try acting superior
Only liars will give the truth a new...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greediest, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Welcome To the Time Warp
Welcome to the Time Warp

Does it seems that history seemingly repeats 
Where the simplicity of life is so rare to find
And the kindness of heart...

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Categories: greediest, freedom, motivation,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Save Our Rain Forest
There are so many people pleading cases.
I am sure these facts speak for themselves
When I say there are very few places
Where man hasn't built bridges...

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Categories: greediest, adventure, animal, beautiful, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hate Crimes
When is hate,
voiced and aggressively acted out,
not a crime
victimizing all us criminals,
convicted and otherwise?

Should we criminalize
fear of fundamentalists
or anger about presumably predative aliens
or anxiety about...

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Categories: greediest, christian, hate, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Satan and I, Cont
For I feared all the way down to the bones of my soul, and wish only to go home. But the light of the lord...

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Categories: greediest, anger,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Art of Saying What Cannot Be For Harriet Monroe
The art of saying what cannot be

………………………………………..for Harriet Monroe
… said
………………or need not be

What's the difference if you call tinnitus or l'acouphène  a 'tintement, a...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greediest, art, death, irony, riddle,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things