Frugality with economy of words
hoping you will read between the lines
silence dishing out the obvious
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 3rd place 2025
Come on! Let them do, let them pass
Today is not time
To shoot people anymore!
Don’t you know is November the 9th 1989?
Today there is not time
To stop goods anymore!
Come on! Only one thousand dollars
Will cost you a plenty full track!
At 9 past 21 p.m.
The wall is falling down!
Laissez faire, laissez passer!
There are bound to be changes
For our lives further on!
It’s crashing down
Together with our illusions
Their false promises
The wrong secular hope!
Come on!
The wall is not hiding anymore
The totems of progress!
Let’s go worshipping
The glittering gods
Bounding ahead!!
Words much like coins
find their value in their quality
their rarity and worth
in gold silver and every
other precious metal
Poetry may as well be
the economic activity
of juggling assets
where trading and
appraising sets
its market price
AP: 1st place 2025
Submitted on April 9, 2025 for contest YOUR CHOICE L sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - Honorable Mention
bootlicking idolatry
He’s a peculiar star
he comes from TV
ambition is his sphere
and his every line is a trick
all know him a notorious liar
whose business is schadenfreude
but many curry his sweet favour
for he has the cowards furry
and an actors need to be flatter'd
He has no quality worthy of entertainment
but we must see him every hour
for he is an hourly promise-breaker
for rashness, superfluous folly and thievery
the world has noted, he has no historical equal
In moral retreat, he outruns any jockey
the treasures of his idolatrous worshipers
he straightway began to strip away, by tariff
too late their despair they will proclaim
but the misery will be well earned
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Fool by bôa
TROUBLE (feat. Nikki Williams) by Parov Stelar
Who Let the Scat out of the Bag by Tape Five
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Webster: Schadenfreude = enjoyment at the troubles of others.
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Money is all I need
It is the root of greed
Always need to be in the lead
The devil has planted his seed
Fancy Clothes
Sparkling in jewels
Stylist furniture and grand homes
Expensive cars to show their wealth
Charity is not their concern
Not sharing in their reserves
Business and the market are their religion
Some end up in prison
Heaven is not their concern
Don’t care if they burn
Go to universities to learn
Which way will they turn
Will they choose self-glory
Will they choose business over family
Will they choose honesty
Will they choose loyalty
Greed leads to lust and deceit
For money causes their family retreat
Blessed are those that stay at home
Enjoying their children as they grow
Greed leads to bad choices
Causes those to loss focus
It is all about what they can achieve
Leaving others in pieces as they leave
When the tree bears its fruit
It produces rare resources
Should I start counting?
When capital is accumulated
It manufactures wealth
Should I start saving?
The wonders of the world,
As money falls into your pocket
An accomplishment has been made
Is this money enough?
As the knowledge becomes noticeable
An achievement has occurred
Is it what I deserve?
Secrecy of the world,
When the grass becomes greener
It produces rare opportunities
Should I count?
When capital is invested
It manufactures interests
Should I save?
The mystery of the world.
It is stored resources that are not used
It is money that is being utilized daily
Not seen by the naked eye
It is investments that are growing
It is wealth that is being created
Ignored by the world
Move over,
As pennies fall into a pocket
And the counting has started
May you see it
As the wealth grows into a secluded area
And the interest has been a secret
May you know it
Stay there,
It is stored tools that are not utilized
It is monetary values that are used daily
Not recognized by the assessor
It is assets that are created
It is land that is being matured
Ignored by the owner
Move in.
They say the root of all evil is money
Taking from everyone with their cunning
I think most Americans would agree
Their having trouble feeding their family
Going to the grocery store is extreme
Charging too much due to greed
Don’t care about the people’s needs
Paying too much to feed the family
Gas prices are through the roof
Making it expensive to go to work
Work from home if you can
To survive you need a plan
The cost of living is destroying us
Many can’t make it and are going bust
Keeping are cars until they rust
Survival for some is in “God We Trust”
Property taxes cause rage
Many can’t afford their mortgage
Rents are out of control
Causing many young adults to stay at home
Interest rates are so high
No one can afford to buy
Businesses are closing locations
After many generations
What can we do to survive
Being pushed forward due to pride
Proving we are tough
To stubborn to give up
In a world where money fades away,
A new economy comes to play.
Global resources, shared by all,
No debts or servitude to enthrall.
With tech so smart, and systems grand,
We’ll manage resources, hand in hand.
Automation takes the lead,
Ensuring all our needs are freed.
The Earth’s green heart, we’ll protect,
With science guiding each project.
No more scarcity, no more strife,
Abundance leads to a better life.
Boundaries fade, nations unite,
For common good, we all will fight.
Human betterment, our new aim,
In this world, we’ll find no shame.
A future bright, where all can see,
The promise of a GRBE.
A world of peace, and harmony,
Built on love and equity.
April 8—Delay (any kind)
There is always a two to three-month delay
Between economic news
And people’s perception of the economy.
Most people feel the economy sucks
When in objective fact
The economy is doing just great.
I hope that
Biden will finally get credit
For the economy
In time for the election.
If he does, he wins,
If Americans falsely believe
the economy is in a free-falling
recession, believing Trumpian lies,
Biden will lose.
As people’s perceptions
On the economy
Get caught up
To the reality of the economy.
I will be very pleasure,
if a world is without war,
Globe has faced two world wars,
resulted in loss of vegetation,
Swiss stayed out of world wars,
Still it has stunning landscapes, I wish to see the world as it is, to enjoy global flora and fauna, You will be surprised to know, the world military expenditure, it is above 2000 billion dollars, And it shattered world economy ,
Bombs scared landscapes,
And tanks flattened mountains, Save our green planet please ,
for the future generations.
In the Mansion House
On a January day
The framework of the nation
And its future did lay
Deputy Johnson
Brought forth his brand-new assignment
If the Democratic Programme did pass
T’would alter our social alignment
Yet, Johnson and Labour
Were met with strict opposition
Economic democracy
Was not the Gaelic League’s mission
Instead, fix the language
And paint the letterbox green
To feed the bootless children
They were none too keen
A state of ‘freedom’ being
Rhetorical and flowerful
All that changed was
The colour of the flag
And the accents of the powerful
Arctic front just a little seems to much
A tolerance to something with no passion or no desire
To be that frozen bird on the wire
Burning purpose Burning reason
reason to plant the greatest ideas
A non-touch society bleeding out slowly
As they shape our mold
To be a force or be a commune
Starving the less prepared
Now their army they call us the metronome
Building their power forgetting humanity's moral disaster
Ambiguous though they left us no escape held hostage
Corporations traps us always fighting for food.
Panic it's out of their control
We the people
Hold all the cards
Watching the economy teeple
Expecting only handfuls to be still driving cars
I have been stuck in a black hole
searching for ammo for my soul
Searching for camo
Before gravity takes it's toll
Now it's 2066
They think home will be hit by some close encounter
Some near Earth object is eyeing annihilation
Apophis at 3.4km on 2029 sounds pretty close
Apophis Just go away we don't want you back
I do mind it but it is getting easier to be in economy when my mind tells me I deserve first class.
The careful management of available resources has somewhat dimmed but with manageable.
My life is a season or a sunny day compared to the Earth and as each cell betrays ,gravity beckons.
I see friends and family and they are departing. And their song goes with them but I listen still.
Listening in the night and crickets salute my aloneness. I see my father, hospital gown as his companion, I hand his waiting mouth a lollipop and a smile.
Mommy snores and speaks her own language and I listen anyway. Kissing her face I know I’ll see her and she mumbles and eyes alert looking at something. Brushing her straggling hair I see the youth and a drink of water goes far for her parched lips.
All is quiet as I wake and the Fourth Watch. God is here and has to tell me importance. I must move constant of the plan. Alert and at the ready for the fugitives of the Watch. I was salvaged from the heap so I must keep a look for those. Willed for the weak and alone I must carry across the line to redemption. Never weary and never falling along the way. Together we will.
rage great
freedom wrong
just wait
love makes no difference
sedate strong
people
excavate earth
under steeple
mayhem ignore
drink mirth
here two cents
strangle birth
tell poor
save money
buy cheap
dark sunny
hard work
never sleep
no such perk
tame lust
virtue secure
top tax cut
bottom tax must
all manure
war backed
mammon
manipulated
usury driven
hope destroying
fear maintaining
political economy
just reality
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