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Best High Life Poems

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Premium Member The Standard of the High Life
The lifestyle I have I would keep
My expenses however are steep
So me you will serve
You're the help I deserve
Without any tip cause I'm cheap...

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Categories: high life, education, funny, people, philosophy,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Girl On the Moon
The Miller High Life bottle cap 
a perfect circle – like the fattened moon face
leering through broken windows — shards
glitter the floor like fallen constellations

your...

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Categories: high life, abuse, addiction, drug, lost,
Form: Free verse
Society's Invisible People
She sat on the pavement as the world walked by 
She's just another  vagrant not a mum  a daughter or wife
Claiming state benefits...

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Categories: high life, mother, society, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Barry and Larry
One September morn, Barry is born, one day a little man that society will chastises every day, poisoned with dour memories of a life passing,...

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Categories: high life, identity, life,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member There Is a Way
There are those richly rewarded for their efforts,
some lucky to inherit by blood, indeed
count one’s wealth in abundance,
live a high life superior to me.

But for...

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Categories: high life, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Succubus
To the lord’s holy house did I this honest man so go,
On this Sabbath day of rest, to praise the almighty God
In the ancient chapel...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high life, adventure, conflict, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Knowing People Then & Now
People I used to know,
People I don’t want to know, who are
Not capable of creating life, yet—crushing 
Its beauty like the road-raged driver of a...

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Categories: high life, hope, people
Form: Free verse
A Higher Living
Living the high life
Everything feeling alright
The stench of weed in the air
We don’t care
It’s 420 everyday,
Where we come from
All work, and mad play
That’s how we...

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Categories: high life, inspiration, poets, power, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Clerihew-Arnold Shwarznager
Governor Arnold Shwarznager
Pumped the iron and starred in Terminator
Lived the high life and married a queen
Shame on you now sad and mean!...

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Categories: high life, funny,
Form: Clerihew
Corruption
CORRUPTION
Mostly the least developed countries  
People are living under the shadow of corruption
Under the banner of corrupt leaders, government employees, 
Businessman, black marketers, middle...

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Categories: high life, corruption,
Form: ABC
Premium Member A Night To Remember
It can't have been the scallops
Or the rump of Islay lamb,
Washed down with white Rioja
Followed by sweet meringue.
It wasn't the skate au poivre
Or smoked salmon...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high life, drink, food,
Form: Rhyme
Down On My Luck
Mister,
can you help a poor rich fella out
Right now, I’m kinda down on my luck,
and that sucks
Will you help me out, please ...
can you spare...

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Categories: high life, humorous, money, satire, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse
Emotional Apathy
Breathing like a Fox
Successions like plastic
Future like metal
Since, hence I am back.
I fly like a hawk
An extinct bald eagle.
I live the high life.
For the first...

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Categories: high life, life,
Form: Ballad
Carnivàl
I got
        CRAZY words!

Y’all should see ‘em –
         They’s a
...

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Categories: high life, imagination, life, music, on
Form: Blank verse
Unlucky Bunny, Smug Cat
My bunny got stuck, he ran out of luck 
When a pigeon swooped low on the roof 
To make things worse, help was scarce 
But...

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Categories: high life, animals, children, funny, petscat,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs