Short Legal Tender Poems

Short Legal Tender Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Legal Tender by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Legal Tender by length and keyword.


Premium Member You

Whenever you apply Yourself, always remember You're it, rely On talents, center On your abilities Making that legal-tender, Remember your responsibilities Ultimately you'll deny Disabilities, all hostilities.
Form: Other


Ifs And Butts

The jig was up and the seller got the shaft as the fletcher (all a-quiver) pricing feathers (more arrows for to craft) saw the target total cost (legal tender) as sky-high (yet altho' not immoral) let fly and shot his bolt (at the vender) which started quite the quirky quarrel
Form: Rhyme

Sinister Minister With a Blister

Sinister Sinner Who Became a Minister

wore big blister
was sinister minister
became senator

a legal tender
minister an offender
had been big spender

minister spinster
with a good looking sister
hard to resist her

had been beginner
then he cooked a great dinner
now a real winner

sailed with spinnaker
when a big wind did occur
hard to endure
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Cash Only

Some merchants make life hard when they won't accept a credit card. Forget checks, or even gold dust. They want those greenbacks that say "In God We Trust". Goods and services are rendered each day. However, cash is their only payment way. Those legal tender pieces of paper are what they want today. Inspired by another member's poem

Scars

She ran her fingers across my skin,
counting my scars as if they were legal tender. 
I thought about the moment when skin
breaks apart, when life has a chance 
to escape its cage.
I think she could see it in my eyes,
because her touch became a violent rush,
her nails hungry for the burst of 
what was wrought between us. 
And so, I bled for her;
Staining her hunger with the rage of scars 
she couldn’t see. 
-James Kelley 2014, All rights reserved.


Premium Member Half Dollars

In public exchanges, they rarely make their scenes
since they are rejected by most vending machines.
The United States Mint curtailed their production.
Numbers in circulation have faced reduction.
Just how many are out there, no one really knows.
These days, they can’t even be found in casinos.
If you ever find one of these, don’t let it go.
People rarely spend these.  They hardly ever show.
This coin bearing the face of John F. Kennedy
is still considered as legal tender money.
Form: Rhyme

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