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Best Purchasing Poems

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


Three Roses - a Parable
Three men each grew a precious rose
They all had different thoughts
Of how to raise and nurture them
Of the outcomes that they sought.

The first man shirked...

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Categories: purchasing, analogy, children, devotion, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Story of the Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality 
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who...

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Categories: purchasing, allegory, betrayal, music,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Complex Math of Living
The Complex Math of Living
By Franklin Price
4/3/2015

The complex math of living
In this 21st Century
Is all about the numbers
Don't add up for you and me

Billions of...

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Categories: purchasing, corruption, hope, life, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality 
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who...

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Categories: purchasing, analogy, love,
Form: Narrative
Steel Upon Endings
Steel upon endings

Taken by fate, to a subway of feelings
Caverns which reap what I call
Beacons of hope at the end often stealing
Fixtures in spite of...

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Categories: purchasing, journey,
Form: Rhyme



Steel Upon Endings
Taken, by fate, to a subway of feelings
Caverns which reap what I call
Beacons of hope at the end often stealing
Fixtures in spite of it all

Counting...

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Categories: purchasing, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monetary Collapse
When production is at an all time high,
but the few who are employed are struggling to get by,
because purchasing power has taken a rapid descent,
Everything...

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Categories: purchasing, money,
Form: Rhyme
Green Bananas
A time is reached in life if one remains
Alive to tell the tale: those certain things
He once performed routinely, ascertains
The notion, habits must desist which...

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Categories: purchasing, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Patriotic Retirement Plan
Giving billions of pounds to banks that just squander
Sharing bonuses and gifts, as they internally launder

To Mr Cameron, an alleged Prime Minister for the people
You...

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Categories: purchasing, politicalwork, work,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Hopes Come True
I was hoping to find my true love
in the city bars at night,
but I just couldn’t meet a woman
who, for me, was a match just...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purchasing, hope, life, song,
Form: Rhyme
Powers That Be
To the powers that be. 
I've allowed you to view 
my weakness like an 
opportunity. Give school 
children fatherless 
babies, and preach their 
nudity to...

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Categories: purchasing, conflict
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Ego-Beneficiary
Here's an oxymoron
that's sure to brighten your day:
being the selfish head honcho,
in the end never pays;
purchasing personal glory
at the cost of a friend.
But being selfless
helps...

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Categories: purchasing, analogy, deep, philosophy, uplifting,
Form: Grook
Premium Member Sandbox Babies
Into the sandbox
Come the flappers and the seekers
Like puppets on strings
Dancing to their own childish whims
The profiler watches
As they think they sing
The poison in their...

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Categories: purchasing, art, christian, imagery, psychological,
Form: Free verse
The Most Beautiful Smile.
S he washes the dishes for a dollar an hour.
M akes enough to buy for one, some milk and some flour.
I nflation has reduced the...

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Categories: purchasing, caregiving, childhood, daughter, family,
Form: Acrostic
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday

Shopping and hawking, 
purchasing and vending their wares; 
the observant noticed; 
the indifferent paid no mind; 
the powerful perturbed by all the noise
make their...

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Categories: purchasing, easter, faith, holiday, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

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