Best Pawnshop Poems

Dusty windows reflected fading dreams,
Of items treasured now lost in schemes
Of hopes long lost or freshly dashed,
Left in limbo as cheques were cashed....

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(written to go with the tune of "Under the Boardwalk")

Oh, when you’re strapped for cash, and your rent is coming due.
If you gambled badly, and...

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I spied it in the window, wasn’t very plain to see
Cos the glass was very mucky, the price I cannot read

Tentatively went into the shop,...

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Little pieces of people's lives
At the pawnshop still survive.....

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I walk in, It almost feels cold
Letting go to all the unknown
That ring you got me a promise we didn’t keep
 a frame of ...

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I was in the local pawnshop
When a lovely watch I spied
Just like the one my mother wore
When she was my daddy's bride.

She lost it in...

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The centre of the wedding ring has seen some of the greatest fights
Set off by the wedding bells
Shiny and sparkling, its aesthetics deceiving
By invitation only,...

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Waking up on winter mornings – the birth spasm reenacted
Time to head out in a world of pain and cold
Have to harness up the troika,...

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Leonard Cohen 
heavy dusk curtains
blinds choke afternoon sun
arch lamp
low light tangles
plaid consignment couch
hot glass Irish Whiskey

4 days died in February
a moment
remained silent
she stayed home
famous last...

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What do you do with your money?
What happens is not funny.
You are broke the day after payday.
All the money is pissed away.
Obligations are due.
Creditors harass...

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My neighbourhood had a Pawnshop, 
where people brought their treasures.
When Lady Luck wasn't smiling,
And they were running out of pleasures. 

The merchandise was varied one...

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Alone with my thoughts pensive up on the rooftop
I am finally unequivocally at peace with it all
You’ll find a letter on the desktop
It’s all been...

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What goes up
Must One day fall

A man with no hope
A man on a path of destruction
A man who caused his own demise

A sorry sight is...

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I hear you are so high you're crawling on the floor
Family dreads there may be an unwelcome knock at the door 

The phone call late...

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Succumbing to worldliness’ pleasures
flagrant in defying divine laws
egregious according to biblical perspective---
my flesh, plunging into materialism’s pool  
drowned in the mire of carnality…

Bereft of...

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