Best Worldly Possessions Poems

Sorrow

My sorrow can swim my sorrow can fly 
I’ve tried to put it to bed but my sorrow wont lye 
It’s not only well hidden behind a smiling man’s eyes 
It has so many places in which it resides
It’s in the flowering fields with a...

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Covid didn't like being labeled "just a hoax"
So it took revenge on one who made sick jokes
I don't wish him any harm
But he won't buy the farm
It seems his face is covered in rotten egg yolks

What arrogance in refusing to wear a mask
Was keeping the...

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Believe in what I am told or what I see 
This war is bitter and I aspire to be free 
Free from these shackles and discrimination 
Free from selective elimination 
We call our children mistakes so we can free ourselves of responsibility 
And our babies...

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Masterpiece of an Indio
Legacy of one native Bravo

As I gaze at the piece
Memories of gladiators seize
Under the roofs of soft floors
Are bloodsheds on hard, scratched floors

Have you ever wondered
Why warriors are devoid?
Of worldly possessions unplundered
Die with swords unparanoid

Heroes or heels are subjects
Painted in oil, not...

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As I watch a creamed-full moon come to crest,
a darkened backdrop takes thoughts away;
into the night of heaven, where loved ones rest.

I stop for a moment to ease my aching breast,
releasing inward feelings I want to convey;
as I watch a creamed-full moon come to crest.

To...

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steely-eyed bunny wabbits

she smells like perfumed soaps and spray paints
i want parts of her reality in unnatural ways
steely-eyed bunny wabbits couldn't be more bold
as she is traipsing round the backstreets at a quarter to three
with a dogeared copy of catcher in the rye
just wants to...

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Some feel rich from worldly possessions
Some feel rich from loving expressions
The tenderness of touch
That we crave so much
That speak of love, these simple obsessions


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Dear, 
To whom it may concern 
This is my last Will and Testament
I, Eric being of brainwashed mind and owned body
Bequeath the following worldly possessions 
To the government, 
I leave my mind 
For which you have programmed for years 
I leave my eyes
Which you have...

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Thanksgiving day is coming
I am making a pledge to be grateful
Small favors and large joys come and go
I am thankful for today for tomorrow is not a promise
               ~~~my health and...

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I woke up one morning,
A pain rose through my head;
I looked down at the mattress,
And saw that I was dead!

My wife stood there crying,
While the kids loudly wept;
Somehow I had slipped away,
That night I'd soundly slept!

Those who truly hated me,
Were suddenly my kin;
Oh, how worldly...

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All my worldly possessions were sold
an adventure to north Alaska to find gold,

way past the Yukon river, provisions bought,
snowmobile loaded, riches to be sought,

following route of miners of the gold rush
just barren cold desert of snow and slush,

Two hundred miles into my unrelenting trek
my transport...

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From Riches to Rags


Most human beings are living like ghosts,
Not really knowing what the future holds.
Whilst we wash in the slime, 
In our own cardboard homes.


There is a building, that is your home.
Once picture perfect; now in ruins after a cyclone.
Now like those you once...

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Her materialism 
can not fade my material
what it boils down to
is heart measures people
soul should be ones
soul possession
everything else 
considered a blesin'
so next time you look in the mirror
ponder this question
why do you look down on those
you depict as less fortunate?
without all your worldly possessions...

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The Day I Died 

Don’t look at me as if I were dead, 
just think of me resting in bed.

Now cover me with eternal life 
and place my favorite flowers upon my head, 
and if the night shall pass 
and you miss holding my heart...

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we all have worldly possessions, we all have some stuff
those material things of which we can't seem to get enough
you never realize how much stuff you've got until you have to move out
an overabundance of possessions, the stuff you can't seem to do without

eventually you'll...

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