Short Dollar Bill Poems

Walking the streets to watch the needy and the poor
The  wealth that covers most of this country is lost
Casting a dollar bill at each tear drop that breaks...

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The desire to obtain items which I don’t need
A bulging wallet weighing down my back pocket
The leather smooth against my fingers as I pull it out
A crisp dollar bill
The pungent ink stinging my nose...

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Have a million dollar bill in my hot little hands
When I present it to cashiers, they poop in their pants
A promotional gimmick
But ever so realistic 
When they threaten to call the police, I'm gone in a glance...

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George Washington was the first President that we had.
When we see his picture on the one dollar bill, it makes us glad.
He refused to be a king and he was our President twice.
He was one of our best Presidents and that was pretty nice....

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Back when I was four or five,
unspeakable was my joy:
admiring rainbowed prisms
in my marble, my treasured toy.

Only in the grownups' world
was a crumpled dollar bill
more treasured than my marble
there glistening on the window sill....

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Have a million dollar bill in my hot little hands
When I present it to cashiers, they poop in their pants
A promotional gimmick
But ever so realistic 
When they threaten to call police, I'm gone in a glance


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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back when i was four or five,
indescribable was 
my joy

watching those rainbowed prisms
inside my marble, 
treasured toy.

only in the grownups' world
was a damp, crumpled 
dollar bill

much, much more treasured than
my marble on my 
window sill!...

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He went on the rap sheet as Shakespeare, Will
And in mitigation he simply said, ‘Nil.’
Male escorts earned plenty
He’d charge half of twenty
They nicknamed him ‘Ten Dollar Bill.’
*



[Hey, it’s a Limerick… please excuse any geographical inaccuracies]...

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My daughter wrote a poem 
“Twenty Dollar bill” 
It will have memories of her 
That will certify 
“Once upon a time in Hollywood.” 
 
We decipher, we digress 
Pizza talks, Hot Pizza 
Cold Beverages 
 
And we surmise 
Because we need to be  
Our best selves 
In becoming....

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Written on 7/27/2021
By Gail R DeBole
Updated on 8/17/2021

My granddad’s five-dollar bill in hand
Was blown by a breeze through farmland.
 Our dog, King, “saved the Abe”
Fetched the bill straight away
To return it to my grandad’s hand.


(True Story that happened in the 1960s)...

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The dollar bill has lots of thirteens.
Referring to the original thirteen colonies.
Pyramid steps – thirteen
String of pearls – thirteen.
Stars – thirteen.
Stripes – thirteen.
Eagle’s arrows – thirteen.
Shield – thirteen.
Olive branch leaves – thirteen
Olives  - take a wild guess....

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I walk uphill
to the curb 
of The Bank of America's parking lot.
I find on the curb the twenty-dollar bill 
fold on the bank's curb.
I reach out my hand 
to touch and get the twenty-dollar bill 
on the curb.
Of the afternoon,
I walk to The Sunday's Cafeteria
to buy the $10.75 lunch....

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It was a good morning until…
I lost a hundred-dollar bill.
I cried “Oh no!
Why is this so?”

It was a good morning until…
the mail brought a bill for a mil.
My tears did flow.
I cried with woe.

It was a good morning until…
I wrote a bad check for the bill.
To jail I go.
It’s sad, I know....

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A five dollar bill in my name.
A white sealed up envelope.
A white handkerchief of forgotten spring.
A gold ring.
Sparks that fly through the sky.
The forces of nature are with us..
Masterpiece equipment that had the last laugh.
A bottle of water on the pavement.
I’d better pick it up it might be mine....

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Money is what everyone craves, but not everyone has
It has slipped through the grasp of many
Some have a sixth sense when it comes to the magical hue 
Green is the preferred color 
Jackson has become a personal mentor 
Those on the quest to meet all of the presidents,
find themselves continuously on the prowl...

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Analytical Green
Is Putrid 
Spent to fast 
Gained too slow
Maybe it's Olive
Or seafoam green
No matter the color 
It is our uprising
Into a vast dominion
Of analytical green
Pea green
Just like vomit
The things that make 
Us puke
The things we gain
To lose 
Emerald like the 
Eyes on the back
Of a dollar bill...

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Back when I was six or seven,
             indescribable was my joy,

         squinting at rainbows and prisms
          in a marble, my priceless toy;


          only in grownups' weird world
        was a damp, crumpled dollar bill

       more valuable, more priceless than
           my marble on the window sill!...

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Back in the day they had what was called Silver Certificates meaning you could go to any bank and get 1oz of silver for your dollar bill. 1 oz of silver today is worth $21.09 per ounce can you buy $21.09 worth of food today for one paper dollar? at $15.00 an hour you should be making $316.00 per hour, this isn't rocket science lol...

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ten feet away
from the woman with sunken,
tired eyes, sifting through her coupons

a crumpled dollar bill
is flattened against a man’s
paint splattered, sun-stained jeans.

he walks out, pockets lined with possibility,
she walks out with a stooped back.

the automatic door slides open
for the both  of them all  the same....

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I gave my son a dollar bill from eighteen-hundred thirty two
    and a two-spot from that same year too
  The question mark upon his face
    implied I was from outer space

  What's this? he managed in a thin voice
    'Cash,' I replied, left with no choice
  He shrugged his shoulders at the 'cash'
    ~ Promptly filed it in the trash...

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Soft Soaping
Written: by Tom Wright
3/15/2016

Don’t soft soap me attempting to gain my favor,
Or use abrasive words thinking they might sway.
After time dedicated to thought, I will not waver,
Nor from my early impressions do I seldom stray.

Nothing harder to change than a made up mind,
Unless it would be a three dollar bill;
Tom
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PING HAD A DOLLAR BILL

                         Ping had a Dollar bill got from the king Weevil,
                 Who loved nuts, beans, almonds, millets ,peas as a meal;
                                So Ping named the king- ‘Crackpea’;
                                      Queen? ‘Nut’, invariably
                    And gave the dollar to bee Toll and went downhill...

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SHE BOUGHT ME

BUTTER AND BREAD,

WHAT A PHONE CALL CAN DO.


A TWENTY DOLLAR BILL KEEPS ME IN THE RACE.


WHAT HELPS ME SLEEP AT NIGHT WOULD MAKE AN ANGEL CRY,

A WOMAN WEEP.


I SLEEP WITH MY EYES OPEN

AND HAVE LEARNED THE LANGUAGE OF  EMBARRASSMENT.


THESE ARE MY TRAVELS NOW........


I SO DETEST THE SITE OF MY OWN OPEN HAND,YET


I CAN NOT CLOSE IT....

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Get down son
Make yourself a man
First learn to earn
Before you love fun
Now down son!
Before comes the sun
Make yourself a man
In every way you can
Sweat ain't a pain
If it brings you to gain
You fancy rich men
You fancy a good shoe
You eye a dollar Bill 
You ain't got a clue
You can't live to steal
And get yourself through
Get down son
Make yourself a man
First learn to earn
Before here you return!...

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  ~ Novus Ordo Februorum ~ *
   
   February is meant for snow
     freezing weather, ten below

   This year the grass is green and the birds, they sing
     but with trees yet barren, March could still sting
 


   _________________________________________
   *'The New Order of February' -- a take-off on what's
      written on the one-dollar bill: 'Novus Ordo Seculo-
      rum,' 'A New World Order.' 
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