Short Monetary Value Poems

bland, tatty, old vase
no monetary value
mantel’s pride of place

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(C) John C Michaels, March 2017...

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I’m not at all interested
in your product
You shouldn’t even be for sale
Put your wallet down 
for a minute
Just look in my eyes
and tell me 
your aspirations in life
There is no monetary value 
assigned to what I desire
“I love you”
doesn’t cost but a breath...

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you cannot calculate my legacy in monetary value 
or in market shares
neither in some property
nor anything tangible

I leave you my soul
recorded in poetry
and thoughts
I share
with those of you with an ear for the essence of me
but unlike Keats not have my name written in water...

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Sadly, it takes a loss
to know what one had
and misses; as anything
not worked for, or rightly
fought for, is not worth
having, regardless of its
monetary value – for one's
soul, though it can be sold
can never be bought back,
only redeemed...by one who
believes it is priceless, far 
greater than the wealth of 
a world....

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How do you put
a monetary value
on your health?

If you don't
feel right
you can't enjoy life

Even the simplest
health issues
can cause

you pain,
make existence miserable.
If you

have your health
you are wealthy
beyond imagination

So be thankful
for the simple things
Live to the fullest

enjoying all the moments
that are
gifted to you

while you bathe
in the
glow of fortune....

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