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Cost Poems - Poems about Cost

THE COST OF SUCCESS
I took a loan to build myself a home just a little space to breathe to rest without chasing time. For a while, I lived with ease forgot the ticking clock watched joy bloom like flowers but never watered the debt behind me. So I borrowed again to pay what I once owed then borrowed more to mend the last circling like a bird with broken...

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Categories: cost, 12th grade, success,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cost of Closeness
It’s hard to tell if they’re playing tag, or thrusting nectar-drunk love at each other— mid-June attempts at getting it. Maybe they’re fighting over first flowers— legs twitching in hypoglycemic half-paralysis, like the buzz of waking mid-vacation, still dazed, muscles aching, but that stinger, coiled stiff for the week. Their terror-tails would end me, or at least suspend me, breath held between here and...

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Categories: cost, anxiety, june, planet,
Form: Free verse



At Any Cost
R-egardless O-f W-eather, E-arth N-aturally A-cclimates, V-ictoriously E-nduring R-ainstorm, I-njustice, D-isaster, I-nclemency, A-nd N-ature's O-nslaught ©bfa051325 Monocrostic (Birthday of Rowena Veridiano)...

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Categories: cost, birthday,
Form: Other
At What Cost
My parents didn’t teach me love— I learned it from the silence. My mother never asked why my eyes were red. She looked, but never really saw. My father only noticed me when I made a mistake. Love, in our house, was conditional. Thin. Breakable. Absent. So I taught myself how to hug my own shoulders when no one else reached out. How to whisper "it's okay" when the shouting outside made the inside...

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Categories: cost, emotions, home, love,
Form: Free verse
When comfort comes at cost
Time was money was when a mindful mate That gave me time enough to feel its feel-- The touch of grain and texture of its state, How one hesitates ere part with the bill-- Crisper the notes harder to part was it, The time it takes to wean out the wallet That gives enough time to be wise and discrete To look...

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Categories: cost, change, money,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member So it's come to this
It's right out in the open for everyone to see ~ puppets bought and paid for dancers strung and played delusional parrots with microphones hostages read the demands of a madman while maintaining somewhat of a poker face It's never been so obvious : integrity has its price....

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Categories: cost, anxiety, corruption, integrity, political,
Form: Free verse
Discovery
Today I discovered the sun Not that the sun was ever invisible Not that the sun was ever lost Not that the sun was ever elusive Not that the sun was ever obscured by an unattainable cost Today I discovered the sun When I removed the blinds from my windows So that the sun could find me ...

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Categories: cost, allegory, celebration, character, confidence,
Form: Free verse
What does it cost?
What does it cost to let a soul bloom and grow, But love and sincerity, my dear fellow? Like a gentle smile on a passing face, Wrapping me like a warm embrace. A soothing hand on my shaking one, Its warmth still lingers though all is gone. A shared laugh in the storm we face, As the gloom fades without a trace. "You...

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Categories: cost, 9th grade,
Form: Couplet
The Cost of Progress
Through ages past, we forged ahead, With gleaming tools where dreams were led. Soft metal pipes, they carried flow, Yet silent poison crept below. A glowing spark, in dials bright, Lit up the dark, but stole the light. Brushes kissed lips, an artist's pride, Yet bones grew frail as youth subsides. Fibers woven, fire's foe, In walls and mines, their curse would grow. Lungs turned...

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Categories: cost, earth, humanity, nature, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cassandra
Cassandra, you who knew the leaves of time, And traced them in your mind before they fell: A gift perhaps for mortals too sublime, Perhaps a cloak of darkness suits more well. Cassandra, did you wish this thing to be? To reach beyond the veil the future lays? To now and all of time at once to see? To live a life...

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Categories: cost, destiny, fate, future, god,
Form: Sonnet
The Living Cost
Between the time card and the grave, We trade our days for dollars spent. Each sunrise mortgaged, sunset saved, For what we call accomplishment. The hamster wheel spins endlessly, As we chase what we're told to need. Survival isn't thriving, see— Just breathing while our spirits bleed. To make a living isn't life, Just passage through familiar halls. The true wealth lies beyond the strife Where...

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Categories: cost, environment, imagery, introspection, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cost and Benefit Analysis
the angst you feel is energy in fact adrenaline to fuel the fire needed to face your fear and profit from the opportunity at hand AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on April 1, 2025...

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Categories: cost, angst, confidence, courage, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Reflection
Last Reflection You have paid the ultimate price, And I, made the greatest sacrifice. When the time came You answered the call And gave your all. My son, what remains of you Lies in this casket in dress blues. I hope the cause was just and true, So, I, will not your death rue. I know that you were brave And other’s lives did save. I know...

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Categories: cost, war,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Rut of Perspective
Are you going to drive after this rain, Maybe you should wait for it to dry, For you will only slide into the same old rut, Burrowing this rut deeper and deeper, It will guide your tread but at a cost, The deeper you go the higher the risk, Risk of being stuck in this rut you are...

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Categories: cost, analogy, change, culture, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WHAT IS THE COST?
What is the Cost? ...

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Categories: cost, anger, bereavement, change, faith,
Form: Free verse

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