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Penury Poems - Poems about Penury


Impetus Penury
Government wish Poverty wane This afternoon. Run out of rice I put bucket Enough to eat. Spring come must Thrift amount food Live within week. Wish the debtor Not come and lift Pass usury....

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Categories: penury, life, money, political, social,
Form: Than-Bauk
Futile Escape Out Clutches of Penury Rattle Tin Can Once
finds yours truly groveling along February third 2022, never linkedin - analogous to stray animal without being befriended, thus I don't belong survival instincts taught yours truly the necessity acting courageous and headstrong even if necessary to stare down King Kong, who actually shows me respect such that every now and again we play a game of ping pong and on a...

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Categories: penury, anxiety, dark, depression, destiny,
Form: Free verse



Futile Escape Out Clutches of Penury Rattle Tin Can Twice
Yours truly dug deep with bony strength in tandem with fantasy notions know king around in figurative heady toboggan noggin like cranial carapace to muster every ounce of strength in an effort to escape chronic confrontation with endless streak of bleakness. Although cursed with brutish, nasty, and short nefarious fate as a measly looking human varmint, this...

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Categories: penury, absence, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Free verse
Saddled With Onus of Penury No More First Plea
Good n plenti riches abound unreachable to gentle hermit while aboveground, human ship of state fore'er stranded aground only thru death do him part will his grievous soul get spirited airbound chokehold sensation ceased when freedom against debtor's prison unshackled humongous human corporeal being all around to little monetary largesse arrived too late to astound pipe dream eternally left within background jackass kippered, milquetoast pockmarked, Goliath scarred, voodoo...

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Categories: penury, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Saddled With Onus of Penury No More Second Plea
bloated girth deceased, not surprisingly packed orotund size appetite conveniently weighted gravity helped fell giant gourmand chowhound demise linkedin automatically tightened neckerchief doubled as noose clothbound neck, the luckless bard dead - poets society he didst cofound oh captain my captain compound suffering no more, departure doth not confound those familiar with ravages of pennilessness although glum spouse doggone bewailing analogous to melancholy coonhound inescapable woebegone travails decompound constituted complex...

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Categories: penury, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Rising Above Penury
Thy bread thee eat in mine presence, Yet offer none that I may feed, O pauper, as I, thine heart benefits none, Thou hast been bitter towards me. Dost not thence hold penance within, That I giveth to thee poor rehearse, And care naught of thy thunderous dread, For I totter forth thro' mine sway. Hear me! O gracious one; hear...

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Categories: penury, dark, poverty,
Form: I do not know?
We Live In Penury
All the comforts that modern life bestows On the human race across the seven seas Despite advances in material acquisitions We still live in penury that is not material. Ample instances of powerful nations with Abundance of wealth and material riches And affluence kissing them in all exuberance Do still live in penury that is not material. The wealth that men accumulate in...

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Categories: penury, philosophy, poverty, satire, truth,
Form: Free verse

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