Best Pensions Poems

Come by the thousands

Hungry, desperate, each day

Greece's agony mounts!*


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Home lost, new home found

Distant shores opening arms

Tears flooding the seas 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
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Five Tomatoes Away

Five tomatoes away
from devastation.
The bullies bully me.
They give big breaks to
corporations-While taking
unfair shares from citizens
and cutting down on
pensions and "Social Security".
I have no...

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World abandonment
vanity infests
greed escalates
charity nullified

Competitive paradise
prices uncontrollable
hunger staggering
debt maximized

Honest  lost
integrity futile
words misconstrued
greed rapid

Equality vanished
pensions minute
labor intensified
 jobs down sized

World absorbed
humans consumed
profits soar
mortgages abandoned

World immobilized
composure...

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Humanity Canteen

My restaurant is exclusive and classy no paupers allowed though I
have to declare that I picked up the chef near the township where
on a...

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abuse, age, discrimination, health, introspection, lonely, old,

Customs To Getting Old  ©


There are very ingrained customs noted when getting old
Getting accustomed to old age is...

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Waiting in line, 
Before the ATM of closed banks for 60 Euros to withdraw under the scourging sun  
Old and invalid people are submitted...

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He would have dissolved the congress party
Would have stopped at once all its festivity
Certainly would have gone on hunger strike
And, would have, launched a blistering...

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The machine is king
Making money is god
Selfishness is the religion

The underdog is the new third estate
The backbone of society
Is the modern slave
As he gets only...

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Coping With Hard Economic Times

By Elton Camp

Each new generation was richer than the one before
But it looks like that will never be the case anymore

It...

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If We Don Need Um-Why Feed Um
 
We do not need to feed -
who we do not need
Every since they yelled
thar's gold in dem dar...

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Its time to think out loud America                  ...

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George is in his eighties and he’s seen it all before
He was born in the depression and was wounded in the war
He hadn’t been a...

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They wage war on the poor
Selling their souls what for
But for gluttony and greed
Dissension is what they breed
Harmony and discord
A duality we can't afford
People die...

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The people of government take their living,
From the majority of us who keep on giving.
They are paid very well to spew rhetoric,
As they argue in...

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Why Aren’t You Saving More for Retirement?

By Elton Camp

Economists are giving a tongue-lashing
Good sense of the public they’re trashing

Unless much more for retirement you save
You’ll...

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