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Covetously Poems - Poems about Covetously

Again

...It comes in waves
Before you know it
Was it always there
 It comes in waves
You didn’t think about it today
Did I make it up
Is pain a feeling I’ve ever known
 It comes in waves
This time was...
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Categories: covetously, abuse, dark, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse

The Balls: A Parody of Poe's the Bells

...I
Hear the bouncing of the balls--
Basketballs!
What a sound of merriment they cause when each ball falls!
How they echo, echo, echo,
Inside the gymnasium walls,
Arriving at a crescendo...
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Categories: covetously, 11th grade, basketball, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberTriumph of Self-Glory's Loss

...God-wrought triumph*

jubilantly serene, blissfully radiant

faith-fortifying, spirit-reviving, Christ-exalting

stewardship, faithfulness; arrogance, selfishness

mind-afflicting,...
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Categories: covetously, blessing, character, christian, faith,
Form: Diamante

To Help the Deaf To Hear and the Blind To See

...TO HELP THE DEAF TO HEAR AND THE BLIND TO SEE

“Skepticism," the poet told the woman,
"is contained in human reason and can never divorce itself from it,
because human reason contains the truth.”...
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Categories: covetously, people, philosophy, silence,
Form: Free verse

Fool's Goad

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Little lemmings,
beware of the Yukon yodel
Don’t ear swallow the Arctic shiny yellow
Fake eureka disclosure: It’s jingle hollow
So, enamel blowflake please,
place not your panhandle h...
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Categories: covetously, allusion, muse, wisdom, word
Form: Rhyme



Jade Oinkment

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The sow beauty queen’s 
favorite color is money green
The cloven jaw cutie’s
favorite sound is “cha-ching”

Miss Piggy Lips loves how the cash registers
throughout the land constan...
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Categories: covetously, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Ode

Sea of Collateral Carnage

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See the human debris,
the scattered limbs torn apart
by shrapnel velocity

In so many Third World places,
the second-hand groan grafters
commit mercantile murder
in the first degree...
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Categories: covetously, dark, imagery, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberSand Goddess

...Supine she lies upon the sand

beads of perspiration finely dot

curvaceous golden brown form

carefree tresses spring, fly away hair

coconut oil lathers coquettish peaks

bared free, fles...
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Categories: covetously, beach, summer,
Form: Free verse

Imp-Ulse Attraction

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The seductive voice
emanating from the Cyclops eye,
whispers:    Don’t believe what you see!
Only trust what I say,
when you zombie sleep turn off the TV

Have no bewitching faith in y...
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Categories: covetously, allusion, imagery, satire, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Digital Translation

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Ten fingers
left and right palm pig squeezing a thief’s prayer merry

One finger
covetously dipped in the pie hole green apple gouging

Nine fingers
raven cloaked in vulture reape...
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Categories: covetously, allegory, corruption, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Couplet

New Moneychangers

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And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them t...
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Categories: covetously, corruption, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Liberty Bow Face

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Red power mode
White digital
Blue logo

My, oh my ...
sweet apple pie!
Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie
Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot
ne...
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Categories: covetously, allusion, imagery, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Slithering Meat

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Reptile meat got a foul swallow
The creeping things they eat
emit putrid vapors ...
vocal odors lemmings do follow

Falling off the cliff
into the mouth ...
Bask in the saliva nasty...
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Categories: covetously, corruption, dark, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Speaking Ill of the Dead

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Dishonorable plastic discharge
gouge a crater debt 
of predatory lending regret

Dead faces on printed paper
exercise still
their executive will

Oppressive weight
from the mausol...
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Categories: covetously, corruption, money, perspective, truth,
Form: Verse

Life In An Aquarium

...My life  in an  aquarium,  so  great, 
But  fearsome,  with unknown  fate. 

Swimming  against  the  fresh  water, 
Flapping  my  gills  for a  breather, 
The  air pump  producing  bubbles, 
Se...
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Categories: covetously, fish, fishing,
Form: Rhyme

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