Best Shortage Poems

Water Shortage 

I have seen the future 
Water famine and revolutions
Wars over water,
No not the kind of balloons 
Of water people throw at
Each other, nor
A wet t. shirt competition,
But real war with blood that
Runs into dry gutters 
Rustlers who kill animals for 
Their blood and...

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The Coming Bacon Shortage

By Elton Camp

Even though the press release was mistaken,
It told of an unavoidable shortage of bacon

Then when it was picked up on the Internet,
Loads of worldwide publicity it did get

That fat & cholesterol they won’t be getting
To many folks was just terribly...

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Manufacturing mistakes or fragrant fraud
Decide for yourself but the produce is flawed
Average contents fifty, on this match box of mine
But when I counted, their was only forty nine 
If they sold a million match box a day, with one match short
That’s a million matches saved,...

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Bar none, no shortage of soap shampoo, nor detergent

Courtesy food pantries
Saint Eleanor's Saint Mary's,
Our Daily Bread,
the missus and yours truly (her spouse)
well stocked with good n plenti of
soap, shampoo and detergent.

Spongebob squarepants
would be in seventh heaven,
where sudsy clouds (resembling
Mister Krabs, Plankton,
Sandy Cheeks, Squidward, et cetera),
would...

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Revenue Shortage

Pillage 
Village
Millage
Usage
Slippery men, pillage village books.
Breaker of trust, millage, usage crooks. 

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 16, 2010
Poetic form: Tyburn...

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worms burying deep
robins no longer forage
food supply shortage

Written September 11, 2022...

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Velveeta Shortage Alarms Consumers

By Elton Camp

Short supply is beginning to ensure
Cheese lovers don’t know what to do

There’s panic buying in the store
Unsure when they’ll be any more

Velveeta’s so good and healthy too
Gourmets are hoping it’s not true

So all who love its rubbery taste
Rush to the...

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weighing curds and whey
the spider spied, her courage
curdled, ran away


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another alliterative haiku for you...

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Water shortage

In the deepest valley where the winter is short
summers long, sheep come home for safety 
of bears and wolves, he bought an old house.
From a two hundred years house, a cane roof sprung
splendid isolation he lived the seasons fair.
Unknow to him and other dwellers...

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We may be nuked by Russia,
As we have plentiful gas here!
Ukrainians, Russians, dying under
horror and pressure.
While inflation, keeps rising and
America sits on her rear!

Xi warned Biden, “ do not sanction
us!’ Yet our entire free world is at stake.
But our President thinks, it is far too
much...

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There once was a shortage on coins
In a coinless town call, DE Moines
Paper money was all
It was stack six feet tall
Seeing it, made others shook in their loins...

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Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream…
No tears, no complaints, far cheaper than gasoline!




                           7/21/202.  ...

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No baby formula here or there.
No baby formula anywhere.
I guess the babies will have to go back to the breast.
But wait a second, the mommies are out of the nest.

The mommies are working to pay for the baby food.
The daddies are parenting, it puts them...

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There's a water shortage in countries,
especially where there's strife,
and air conditioning is needed,
to lead a pleasant life.
We also have bone-dry Bermuda
where, except for 5" monthly rainfall,
collected in cisterns or brought by tanker ship,
there's no water to be had at all.
Attempting to inform the people in...

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