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Premium Member Spendthrift
"When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're...

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Categories: spendthrift, money,
Form: Free verse



Spendthrift-Skinflint
Spendthrift...Skinflint

                        ...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spendthrift, people,
Form: Diamante
Aha Argh Oh My Dog
Aha - argh... oh my dog...
don't mind me muttering, eh?

Earlier today (May 5th, 2020),
I forget thee exact hour
found me utterly beside mice elf,
matter of fact...

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Categories: spendthrift, adventure, celebration, fun, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Free Moleosophy Predictions-W
Nature doth represent the merchant fair
Stores his shoppe with all sorts of ware
To display on the window can’t bring all
So exposes every item of quantity...

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Categories: spendthrift,
Form: Rhyme
Memories Beyond Time
Memories beyond time





Once embracing my tender wrists,
now tired watches lay dropped on woods,
Waking me up with first ray of sun, asleep with set,
only to find...

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Categories: spendthrift, memory, time,
Form: Ekphrasis



Corner Grocery
Urban legend now bared to the bone
Yet its trademark can no larger store clone
No glossy signs, spacious lots fealty to hone
But in colloquial parlance a...

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Categories: spendthrift, business,
Form: Rhyme
Love For Living
A man tried to control his wife then he failed.
he tried to control his children then he failed.
he struggles the entire life to find an...

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Categories: spendthrift, caregiving, dedication, faith, wife,
Form: Sonnet
The Estranged
The Estranged [A dedication]

         Jay was sitting in his small cell
      ...

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Categories: spendthrift, dedication,
Form: Narrative
Easter
Thanks GOD its Easter..
the drunkard will drink
the sluggard will idle..
the spendthrift shop...

the zealot holds the book..
the end is near.. they all..
give him blank stares..
the lovers...

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Categories: spendthrift, christian, easter,
Form: Free verse
Plastic Paradise
Want it?
Charge it!!
Can't afford it?
Charge it!!
Plastic startin'
to wear a bit thin?
Charge it on another
card...you win!!
No one can stop you now...
And, look, by God, 
You have...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spendthrift, adventure, allegory, angst, confusion,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Scoundrels of the Senate
Again these men comes to mind,
Paid to say yes and nay,
Lame duck,

Canker, ***** rapscallion minds
Incorrigible,
Political impostors detached from the humdrum of street cries
Maggots in honor
Damp...

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Categories: spendthrift, africa, analogy, corruption, freedom,
Form: Free verse
To His Well-Meaning Friend
Had we but oil enough and gas,
All welfare bill would easily pass,
And we’d be spending hard, I bet,
Without incurring any debt.
You, on the Moon, would...

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Categories: spendthrift, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Sliderule
Be drift the moon across cloudless sky
to shine it's light upon the cloudy I
beneath her gaze my darkened days
where time has slowed and doesn't quickly...

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Categories: spendthrift, angst, care, death, life,
Form: Verse
Lost Time
Tick tock, tick tock said the weary clock,
Her arms are never still;
They keep on going round and round,
They still have time to kill.

The hours are...

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Categories: spendthrift, imaginationtime, time,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member For
For evermore I will repent
For not having saved a cent
For my retiring aging years.
For spendthrift ways I am in tears...

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Categories: spendthrift, sorry,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things