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Nouveau Riche Poems - Poems about Nouveau Riche

Premium MemberMargaret And The Tiffany Hat

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She wore a tiffany hat with a bow and six big plumes of red and white,  
it had an ultra wide asymmetrical brim that rolled up to one side.  
When it came to dames like this I believe God ran out...
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Categories: nouveau riche, analogy, humorous,
Form: Narrative

Scotch Tape Sweepstakes

...Scotch Tape Sweepstakes

The easy to handle
sticky sided material
made of a variety of materials, including
cellulose acetate, polypropylene,
PVC, and adhesive
(alluded to in the title)
appli...
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Categories: nouveau riche, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Ah the glory of a restful sleep

...Ah... the glory of a restful sleep

Nothing beats the refreshing
blissful peaceful easy feeling
resulting from shut-eye after
feeling zonked out staying up
late after a hard day's night
binge ...
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Categories: nouveau riche, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

They got the whole world in their hands

...They got the whole world in their hands

Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unnamed obscenely rich,
(which top 15 billionaires
projected to...
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Categories: nouveau riche, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThrough The Picture Glass

...Decades ago, we met one afternoon
the talk was of change that was coming soon.
Betty Jean's dad gave his insightful view
that the elite life may not continue -
in his gracious estate on Cheswold ...
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Categories: nouveau riche, change, memory, time,
Form: Couplet



Premium MemberFestive Season?

...The leaves
From the trees
They fell
It was that time of year 
Nature looked unwell

The sun disappeared 
And out came the rain 
Happiness vacated 
What’s left of the brain

Festive season
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Categories: nouveau riche, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLa-Di-Da

...They all pranced through some broad-like avenue
and they've placed apart from each other's course
proved they stood full of airs and graces view
from cameras balanced by those they kne...
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Categories: nouveau riche, allusion, appreciation, change, character,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUnreality Of Tulips In A Vase

...The tulips in the vase, 
   a clan of lassies fair.
      Their buds they hold the gold, 
   the pollen of their youth 
and promise sunrise told,

      the tulips in the vase, 
   they lounge...
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Categories: nouveau riche, art, beauty, dream, flower,
Form: Monchielle Stanza

Premium MemberDreams of An Alter Ego

...I make a perfect dry martini,
I read and write and speak Français,
All my suits, and shirts, and shoes are custom-made.
I own a Porsche and Maserati,
A house on Acapulco Bay
With scores of floor...
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Categories: nouveau riche, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberWhere's the Beef

...Somewhere in the past of here and now
we started dining on the cow
and now they want us all to stop
but they can’t figure out just how.

There first attack the realm of coin
demands that you ca...
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Categories: nouveau riche, food, humor, satire,
Form: Rhyme

Rooms Apart; and Tastes, Aesthetic

...Mine, full of old clutter.
But cultured!
Mahogany chaired.
Mantel-clocked.
Beneath whose framing's gold
As quaintly curved Age-locked
Grand pictured.

Laughingly echoed through
By contrast
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Categories: nouveau riche, old,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRant

...This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay
  yet from the east caravans again fill its
pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith

malls rise its clefts, eco-wilderness morph
  into mult...
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Categories: nouveau riche, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRich Love

...(a collaboration with Robert Liguori ) 


The rich lovers did everything together,
dressed in expensive matching clothes from
"Little Owl Boutique "
two nouveau riche of New York marryi...
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Categories: nouveau riche, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRich Love

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By Mystic Rose and Robert James Liguori
      
The rich lovers did everything together,
dressed in expensive matching clothes from
"Little Owl Boutique";
two nouveau riche of New York ...
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Categories: nouveau riche, allusion, angel,
Form: Rhyme

In Favor of Women

...What i love
further in this life,
It's woman...
woman of any
creed, race and color...:
female,
femme.
female...
long hair
firm ideas.
woman is formidable
pure mother,
sweet girl,
beast, ...
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Categories: nouveau riche, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Prose Poetry

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