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Best Lender Poems

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


Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be
NEITHER A BORROWER NOR LENDER BE

Because  lending to friend may lose you that friend:
If he cannot repay and feels indebted, his  burden is...

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Categories: lender, friendship, me,
Form: Verse



Funny As a Heart Attack
A group of older men gather
once a week to talk about life 
after a heart attack.

Old Len chews tobacco still 
and tells jokes in a...

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Categories: lender, heart, sick,
Form: Blank verse
Scarf On Head
Tangled clues
with sensuous sparring;
the incense was rising from the blue moon.

It was body’s integrity,
a lender was demanding
when lust had become prodigal.

Behind the thin veil, red...

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Categories: lender, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
A Borrower Softens His Voice
It is a business truth
And transformer of lenders into Ruth
Who have been infamous Shylock 
Or a hesitant safe with lock ...

A borrower to soften his...

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Categories: lender, business, change, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
William Alexander Bustamante (From Pages)
Now let us forget foreign captains
And Conquistadores myth
That colors the morning exuberantly
With exotics wars and phony fathers
Like a fine lady strolling along a rotten street
I...

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Categories: lender, history, people
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Debt
Debt is the contender, 
holding you hostage.
bounding you to prison,
Leaving you exhausted!
Never to know freedom,
0r taste the joy thereof.
Debt is an enemy,
undeserving of your love!

Debt...

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Categories: lender, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Borrower
Borrower,
Borrowing appettite;
Increasing gradually.
Weary to live within means.
Handcap of saving culture;
Hand-to mouth disposition.
Lender connives with bailiff!

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Categories: lender, depression, sympathy,
Form: Cinquain
Besame Mucho, Juanita, the Mexican Girl
I'm in love with Juanita

From El Paso country song ...

Kiss me stronger, senorita,

Make my memories be gone.


To forget the northern beauty,

Who's cold heart is made...

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Categories: lender, song,
Form: Rhyme
Ding Dong Bell
Five foot nothing, 

Round as a rubber ball and just as bouncy

Known to all and sundry as Nanny “Ding Dong” Bell

Thought the Ding Dong hilarious,...

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Categories: lender, friendship, people,
Form: Light Verse
A Pocketful of Dreams
I’ve got a pocketful of dreams
And very little else
What I have I give to others 
And keep nothing to myself

I spread myself too thin
And tire...

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Categories: lender, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Leaders, Followers and Goals-W
Neither follower nor leader but HIS
Follow to borrow, lead to lend means
Both take away self-respect  
But be what you ought
Aware to be sheep, beware...

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Categories: lender, political,
Form: Limerick
Booouung
It's just a beating of the quixotic lender leading leash of uneven harmonics,

sweltering beans roasting on an Amish kettle car,

deepening of the reeds
and all of...

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Categories: lender, appreciation, art, bereavement, conflict,
Form: Blitz
Words To the Wise From a Depression Era Grandmother
Always look down –
You might find something - maybe even money
Never a borrower nor lender be-
You might not get something back that is dear to...

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Categories: lender, granddaughter, grandmother, life, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Indignation 1-6-21
How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags,...

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Categories: lender, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Mother of Mine
Oh mother mine, you're a friend to the end.
Seen you be a borrower a lender and a fixer of broken men.
You see your sons ...

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© Ian Black  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lender, blessing, care, celebration, child,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things