Best Penniless Poems

Weightless, Penniless, Timeless Without Score

Death had spoken thus; I see you still deny,
Abides grim darkness in you, 'til bye the bye,
Weightless, penniless, timeless without score
Last gasp is endless, it echoes no more;
Fields of waving grain, stroke whispering winds
splashing murmurs of why human life ends
As if...

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The starving artist and the penniless poet 
No respect until their death and they know it
Such are the little things going unnoticed 
People walking around looking out of focus
That’s when he writes, in the dead of night
Arranging the letters until they are right
Weaving words on...

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The experts predict by 2050, we'll all live to over a hundred
A lot of us will say, nope, that's not for this old muddlehead
Ninety years seems quite long enough
When the money runs out and things get tough
And we all end up in a home as...

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I didn't want to ask you and I'm feeling very strange, I've been searching all my pockets, looking for some change.
My wallet is empty and everything went wrong, now all I have is my guitar and this little song.

Now I'm feeling kind of rough, tomorrow's...

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THE LAMENT OF A PENNILESS BLOKE

For want of avocation, I became a poet
To bleed my misery on paper calling for an eye,
To see me in my tattered footwear and backless shirt,
But no hear have I got even with my wildest cries.
I sought for love but...

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The world eats money
Stuff breaks when I have some spare
             I end penniless...

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I use to believe in love. 
If I loved a person deeply enough, 
if I put my all into them, 
sacrificed every inch just to bring them happiness -
Perhaps, I would one day wake up and find, they loved me the same. 
Where the steadiness...

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Wistful Accursed Penniless Fate...God Dime Mitt!
(neither defamation, nor blasphemy meant, sans Title)

Despite ingestion of
     anti anxiety medications
     ferocious hellish onslaught
     pummels me aback
finds resurgence of ghostly
     white implacable terror
inducing...

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PENNILESS AT THE TOLLGATE
 
Wish I had a cat,
or maybe just a friend.
Mother says it's not the end,
but it is.
 
Reflections in the mirror,
inspections of the interior.
She's gone, I'm wrong,
and the soul can be so empty.
 
The milk is sour in the sink.
To wish, to...

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As long as profit is the master of one's heart penniless would love remain! 








© Demetrios Trifiatis
    28 February 2018...

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Penniless in Le Havre 

At the time of my nadir penniless in Le Havre in the drizzle 
Saw a blue neon light of a bar I meet sailors there from my own country 
They gave me cigarettes and wine, money enough to take the train...

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There is a penny on the sidewalk,
not shiny and new,
but dull and worn,
people walk by -- not noticing,
some see it but don't want it,
others notice it but are too busy to pick it up,
but for some reason -- every now and then,
someone -- just like...

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Penniless in le Havre.

In the time of my nadir penniless in Le Havre
in the drizzle, I saw the blue neon light of a bar
I met sailors from my country
they gave me cigarettes and wine
also money so I could take the train home
thanks to the generosity...

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We have graduated from many prestigious tertiary institutions,
With flying colors,
Competent and resourceful,
But we are roaming around the streets, homeless, penniless and jobless.

We have been trained,
Under the scorching sun and in the rain,
In skill acquisition 
And entrepreneurship development (SAED),
But we are neglected, so we resort to...

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Nothing to Lose?

I’ve got no money in the bank
Can’t afford to fill my tank
I haven’t got any property
I live in a town called poverty
I don’t want to die of cold
I’m not anxious to grow old
So nuclear war sounds good
Cause there’s no Robin Hood
For once only...

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