Best Materialism Poems

So you want more nice things!
Will your life have more meaning?
When you have more stuff, is it ever enough?

Don't you know that there's more,
to life, than keeping score,
of who has more things,
what joy does that bring?

Our days are numbered,
don't just fill them with slumber.
And just...

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the choking beat of conformity
coagulates internment in the minds
of fascist marches measuring time
shoving tubes filled with dictates
down the gullet of my spirit
wishing to be at least severed
from the instance of alignment
inherent in the laughing dream
which destroys ambitions of rain
-bows arching toward constellations
(a distorted and twisted...

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Materialistic pleasures are ripples in the water
       Seem elegant but vanish soon
Ripples will not prevail in the perpetual rain
      they get dispersed due to over flow
Non-materialistic pleasures are water in the sea
  ...

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THE MASSES AWAKEN AS THE STORES OPEN.

NO GATHERING FOR THIS FAMILY TODAY,

AS THEY EMBARK UPON THE SHOPPING RITUAL,

THIS TIME OF YEAR.

THIS MATERIAL PHENOMENON IS OUT OF CONTROL,

SURROUNDING A DAY INTENDED FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

DEALS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MEMORIES AND

EACH YEAR WE BECOME LESS AND...

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the age of materialism
we are in the age of madness
an age of no common sense
an age where all is a rush 
an age full of material dreams
an age full of material needs

the age of materialism 
we are in an age of confusion
an age where moral...

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Queen of Materialism Versus Queen of Minimalism
She shops and shops and shops and shops.
She is either in a store or on the phone.
Amazon boxes surround her house.
Some are opened, some are not.
She is a consumer, smothered under boxes.
You can find her hand reaching toward the...

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Those with piggish hearts I'd berate
for desiring each worldly prize.
Avarice is a shameful trait.
Materialism blinds their eyes.


June 23, 2022
Greed Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Margarita Lillico
Syllable count checked with howmanysyllables.com...

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seeds of malaise cultural materialism for permissions
atrial, nothing functioned more than citizens' terms of right
values, possible domains of rivalry
defined, a phenomenal world of functional conditions
great as moaning Rome, livid
women are secured in natural churches rife
locally, rational and relational, religiously riotous
parties are luminous, phenomena explained physicians
permanently...

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Solid roots buried deep within the earth
Though a chimera
Far above the dense ground
High high above
Where there is no one else around
But down down below
To a place rarely talked about
Where everybody goes

To confront the darkness that lies within
Slowly eating away at our soul
Slowly devouring us all

A...

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A prayer is like seduction to your soul
Your church is the glamour the world bestowals
Your bible is the flashy neon lights and billboards
Your truth is the multiplicity of greedy
Your salvation is fruition of materialism
Your retribution is its finitude and lost satiety
Heaven becomes invisible through the...

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Rhyme:         AABB
Rhythm:        Trochaic tetrameter. i.e.,                         ...

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Lent 

What does it mean?
To take the desert stance
Then walk this path
Of greatest resistance 

To tangle your heart
With the rocks and the snakes
To lie your head down
Where the deceiver wakes 

What is the point?
Of self-denial
To clear out the bitterness
Of the dark tempter's vial

To empty our...

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The earth belongs to the One who created it*
We are only stewards of the area we possess,
Known to the ancients, this fact is no secret
No one owns anything forever is my guess,
So, enjoy it while you can is as good as it gets.

(*Psalm 24:1)

Written May...

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Picturesque and simple with sweet little windows,
Tidy guestrooms beside stylish bedrooms,
A kitchen straight out of a home catalog,
All contain inside plastic walls.
Blush, copper, teal walls leading to a bathroom,
Cobalt blue hibiscus designs on matching tea sets,
Coordinating furniture in every room.
Delicate and perfect from the roof...

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Flames sifts and seizes all, mankind’s desires burns through all 
All is exchanged for fire, for fire is the highest priced gold 
With a pearl within the flickering flames, still and wailing...

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