Money Free Verse Poems

A billion dollars can buy a bushel of silence and two for death
hectares of prime farmland or champagned private jets 
It can buy a turd...

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(Voice of a Broken Lineage)

Before your first cry kissed Florida’s air,
Two weary souls crossed oceans of despair—
Your parents, Cuban hearts in exile,
Arrived in 1956, not...

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there is no one this poet hate more than
those little ers with power in their hand
who would do nothing but sit back and watch
as the...

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she inherited millions
her parents’ house, furniture, clothes, knickknacks, jewelry, daddy’s watch
never spent a penny on a couch, never chose a painting or a necklace
satisfied with...

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only the one percent will have it—
digits on screens,
coinless gold,
cleaner than blood,
colder than God.

you kept printing your paper,
tossing it like confetti
at a funeral,
your wages wrapped...

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"The Race of life" by #blossommonyei
The race of life
I am about to describe
Where some has to work and strive
While the others bribe.

As the first car...

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They wear no crown, yet kings they reign,
Invisible hands in shadowed domain.
Their thrones are silence, veiled from sight—
Yet nations move by whispered might.

You vote, you...

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if he could fold her up and put her into his wallet
she might seem valuable.

If he could see her in the middle of a bank...

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I have known the hollow silence of empty hands,
once full of gold, now dust and fading strands.
I gave my heart in seasons bright and fair,
helping...

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"The Devil's message"
--BlossomMonyei--
I have made money a focal point
Ambition is all you'll chase
You'll work hard just to live soft
I'll weaken your faith, trusting is of...

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He handed me the air-brushed t-shirt
and I thanked him, said I loved it.

He asked, Do you mean that?
I said, What would have possessed me
to utter...

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Her newborn girl wasn't given to her
for the crucial skin to skin contact
instead the nurses took the baby away
and returned the daughter back to the...

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I am the US dollar
And I'm shrinking fast
One because of
Inflation and high interest rates
Pretty soon I won't
Be worth anything...

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We Bleed Red
If I were a king or queen you would notice me, and respect me no matter my race.  If I had riches...

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I have learned that hate is stronger
and lasts longer than love.
I have learned that those who 'forgive
and forget' are often made to regret.
I have learned...

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