Discount Poems - Poems about Discount

Written: April 14, 2025 for contest sponsored by Brian Strand ****************** The subject matter of this poem explores themes of transience, intersection of life and death, and the fragile coexistence of human and natural worlds. a loaf of discounted bread ...

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I had planned to weather the storm until the break of dawn and hibernate in my shell until the wicked is dead, but it kept lurking behind the door with manipulative words trembling on its lips and banging on the roof and shouting profanity in the street. I curled tight into my shell and watch the...

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Intelligence, it seems, is very expensive. It makes you work to gain advantage. It makes you pay to find success. It’s the law of supply and demand. To learn, one must also be willing to lose. The scarcity of human resources, Even in a world of eight billion souls, Requires that smart be given a price. Whatever is gained in acquired intellect Must...

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There’s no amount Which does not count In an account… Yep, no amount Sellers discount And while recount Your whole story Fail to glory: Place in praised sky For being Quite High… Don’t pressures mount After discount For more from Fount Or self soon count The Badly Bluffed, His wish rebuffed… Discounts fetch smiles; Who gave went miles!...

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There is a problem in aisle three. I can't reach the cans of garden peas, they are on offer. An elderly man is down. A handful of helpers, on one knee it looks bad. I cannot get there, I have to wait, for the oxygen, the first responders to firstly respond, for the aisle to clear. Then I had to push through a group of concerned onlookers, to reach...

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People entering Giant Tiger usually have grey hair It's something to do with the tattered clothes they wear Bank accounts are smaller They have dwindling dollars A mask solves the problem of being recognized there...

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Discount Justice I go to the store, there is a paper… It is meant to sell me things. Most items I need, some I want, others are on SALE. A coupon is cut from this same sheet, It is a promise, of goods, of services, of excellence, and loyalty, appreciation. Yes… they mix and match. Yes… they have a system. Yet the...

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I'm Bald headed-have piss yellow teeth don't use balm or whiteners to appear young again every scar is a jagged path to a novella called living. Cursed and blessed with a good heart wild horse temperament that's bucked most riders off. Loyal to a fault for the few who've stuck it out through all the ups and downs. I could...

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christmas eve rooting through the discount bin not finding jesus...

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Today I rode into Tucson Determined to buy a new futon A squirt in a skirt Got down in the dirt And flashed me a discount coupon...

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The industrial hull of the SUV Sways with the slightest wind taps And pothole shoves. Popeye’s signs, Golden shell displays, the lingering smell Of Premium-grade gasoline. The prices are Down, but our gas meter still teeters closely, Dangerously, just inches away from zero. Still, we push on. We pass Targets and Walmarts, advertising last minute...

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One-third off, sixty-six percent marked down quality At the voting booth bazaar, base gypsy thoughts are belly dancing around your capitalist-veiled head You like what that smiling politician said; promising you a lot of green bread, come get your lying share Saying you gon have so many job offers, corporate courting you to their employment bed Every four years, work is always glamour sold as...

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A DISCOUNT May I share the story of a man Who for a maiden emptied his barn And for clarity her name is Anne And her hair smooth like yarns May I share the story of my kinsman Who for a maiden traded a cow for a lantern And for clarity her name is Anne Yet my story just...

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Had a chicken dinner in a restaurant last night Asked the waitress for discount coz we were so nice She looked quite amazed Figured I was a bit crazed Said, “Pay or the cops will be crawling the place”...

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Armless doll Thrown in Fate's trash Her heart still beating......

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