Margaret And The Tiffany Hat
...
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
Through 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
Festive 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
La-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
Unreality 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
Dreams 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
Where'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
Rant
...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
Rich 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
Rich Love
...
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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