Euros Poems - Poems about Euros

...“22½ euros for a Martini,” Peter remarked, when he first scanned the menu. “It’s not like we aren’t going to get them,” I said, “we’re not going to cheap our way to abstinence." The waiter came and ......Read the rest...

...The bric-a-brac shop waits on Rue Nationale. In a sleepy French town. It opens at ten, And closes at one, Till three. Then on till seven in the evening. Madame opens the shutters Before going ......Read the rest...

...Behold the Pied Piper has tossed his pipe belatedly in the trash Having led folks down some garden paths he trousered wads of cash Dollars, pounds, euros, rolls of wallpaper - the currency didn’......Read the rest...

...I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden windowsill of my topmost room at the rundown pension overlooking t......Read the rest...

...Footwear and a mendicant After going to several shoe shops, I found shoes that fitted me happy, I walked along and saw a woman sitting on the pavement begging, she looked old for her age severely ......Read the rest...

...My t-shirt was bought on vacation. It pictures a Vespa in front. On seeing it, I felt elation, Completing my souvenir hunt. A kiosk outdoors was displaying, With other reminders of Rome, The ......Read the rest...

...There it goes sliding down the throws of market drop just when you thought you were on top. Look at it plunge sinking everyone's 401s and to think the government once wanted to invest ......Read the rest...

...If you seek to fully understand, This complex human jam, You just need a ticket in hand, To fly to Amsterdam! History walks the streets here, In every pavement stone, You find friendship and ......Read the rest...

...The visit to the past I took the bus to the village Only it didn’t stop there anymore, and no buses were going that way. The only road to my house was a track. For tractors and mules. In my abs......Read the rest...

...I used to be German of true Prussian decent These days I am European to my content Travel without passport for thousands of miles Meet people of all kinds who offer their smiles Am free t......Read the rest...

...Coins stacked like leaning towers of tilted soldiers Oh the stories they could tell, well traveled Phone rings, Hello, how may I help you? Receipt roll falls from the till, unraveled Could y......Read the rest...

...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : XV & XVI XV IF ever I had a country And if ever I were the Treasury Secretary I'd outlaw all big-time " companies " who beg for mon......Read the rest...

...TIPPY TAPPY FOOTBALL Tippy tappy football, I hear the pundits say That's not proper football, that's not how you play Tippy tappy football, now what's that all about? Why can't they play like o......Read the rest...

...Pounds, Dollars, Rupees, Yen Time to stop this if we can Impossible, I know but still When money rules, it’s all downhill Euros, Pesos, Shekels, Krone What the evidence has sho......Read the rest...

...Brexit Sonnet No.2 ‘Precious Time’ One Billion earned takes patience, faith and years. To calculate it out on goodly pay, It’s twenty thousand years of sweat and tears, Twenty thousand year......Read the rest...