Short Joneses Poems
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Sammy Skelton, a sorry bag of bones
Tried to keep up with Johnny 'Crossbone' Jones
He practiced grim groans
Produced awful moans
Yet never did improve his muscle tone
I can live a life of modest means,
Closer to nature, that is for me,
Untie the chains that ties me to greed,
Not wants like Joneses, but my own dreams,
Date: 06/27/2019
So here I am - Reincarnated
No more keeping up with Joneses
Free at last ! ... forgetting though:
They love to eat frog legs for dinner...
I was given a challenge to write a short poem by looking at a picture of a frog... :)
Keeping up with the "Joneses" leads nowhere-
You discover quickly that Life isn't fair!
Be content with the Life that is your own...
If you have what you need you shouldn't bemoan-
Not everyone can be a millionaire!
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Because I'd been good for a very long while,
my parents decided to buy me a crocodile.
Then all the kids on the block
thought I really did rock.
Till two weeks later,
another kid’s parents decided to buy him an alligator!
Shoot! And now some kid’s braggin’
his parents are gonna buy him a Komodo dragon.
Oh, my God! This is way over the top!
Will this neighborhood competition never stop?
If I will live like no one else
Later down the road I can live
Like no one else.
If I am willing to make sacrifices
Now, that others aren’t willing to
Make. Later I’ll be free from debt, stress,
And worry. And my future won’t be
At stake.
Never wish you were like the Joneses
If you haven’t notice, they are now broke.
Say to yourself I am winning, all is not
Lost, and the pay off would be more than
the cost.
Form:
Automobiles these days are super expensive
And, I find car advertisements rather offensive,
Suggesting my old auto may soon be trash,
They are promising to buy it for loads of cash.
I’m not in a race to keep up with the Joneses
Considering what the interest rate on car loans is,
I’ll keep my jalopy as long as it gets me where,
If sometimes I’m returning on a wing and a prayer.
Written July 9, 2022
From George Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior:
#54 Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you,
to see if you be well decked…
JONESES JETSET
Maude, she did pile her accoutrements high
upon her head - peacock-in-style. So sly,
she looked up and down
with thumbs up or frown.
This fashion afficionada spies.
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Belated achiever’s life’s sad:
The Joneses have their cars,
Philips own their regular pay
And Alexes are with the stars.
You shed a tear in the day,
And brave such sundry fights
As the Bensons placidly snore
Away their magnificent nights.
Divine clemency that tarries yet
Is your lingering wobbling hope;
And fickle kith and kin do hate
Belated achiever for his penury.
So it’s all sad woe upon sad woe
As blood and friendship turn foe.