Miserly Poems - Poems about Miserly

You Can’t Put Thanks in Your Pocket Call yourself a friend? Call yourself a pal? It’s not what I call you Ungrateful, selfish Good adjectives for you They’re free by the way We know how much money Means to you Can’t put ‘thank you’ In your pocket, that’s What you live by Yet, I never got a Thank you did I? I was the butt of...

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He was miserly with his misery held it tight wouldn’t set it free clutched it screaming in late night dreaming gussied it up with AM preening. Never cheap with his misery he defied the rules being miserly spread his gloom with a cobwebbed broom swept misery’s web all around the room. Oh, the misery of the miserly why must they share their gift with me. ©12/30/2018 Edward Ibeh - sponsor...

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She was often totally furious With her husband who was penurious He gave pennies to the poor After quite a big uproar His flamboyant stinginess quite curious....

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The Nature is of miserly nature Keeps stocks of the yellow hue Selective in its use. Like a sapient gift-giver presenting A dulcet beauty of sunset Yellowish entire sky. The nature nurtured by the Father Sun Entreats us to view pale sky And shivery small sip. Bathing the flowers in shining color But days of glory too short Green pushing out yellow. =========================== 2-4-14 Dr. Ram Mehta Form: Kimo First Place...

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How can I repay this debt, When all I owe is Life's regrets? Such dividends I'll never spend- The cost to just forget!...

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Christmas for stolid, hermetic recluse Recidivistic mind all sentimentality doth refuse Token, lifeless symbols; pageantry will recuse Pawned, second-hand trinkets now in disuse Barnacled to limbs drooping to spindling angles obtuse Garnishments that jilting time accrues Hung sloppily, stunted timber's temporal dues Strings of patchwork lights will fuse Faded colored-cones baring every bruise Creased garlands as tawny ropes the girth noose Strands of tarnished ice...

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