Short Pittance Poems
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Pittance
Nary a pound a penny a pittance not.
Many a scoundrel will take what you've got.
By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison
Categories:
pittance, analogy, art, money, parody,
Form:
Other
Phyllis Phyffer phoned a friendly farmer,
And proffered a mere pittance for his land.
"Phooey!" fumed the fairly livid farmer,
And dropped the phone receiver from his hand.
Categories:
pittance, children, funny, people
Form:
I do not know?
The forgotten haunt our nation's street corners
The blind, the lame, the broken -- so forlorn or
Stricken and smitten every step of their way
They ask but a pittance -- to elevate your day
Categories:
pittance, change, giving, poverty, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Once knew a chappie named Antonio
From his bum, brownish flowers did grow
A delightful appearance
Sold them for a pittance
Saved some to set his love's heart aglow
© Jack Ellison 2015
Categories:
pittance, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Mere Pittance for Trump's Remittance
Always knew would be mere pittance,
We did receive for Trump's remittance,
And never practical;
Went on sabbatical;
Used poor vocabulary in each sentence.
Jim Horn
Categories:
pittance, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
Inspect than detect and correct.
Remittance for pittance was part of admittance.
Swerve after you observe the curve.
Receive, retrieve and relieve.
Amount of deceased increased and their
souls would be released.
Jim Horn
Write some poems using these words
that rhyme.
Categories:
pittance, allegory, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
Stress
political angst
insecurity
leaders thump their chests
cling to positions
Joe Lunchbucket waits
he wants to work
needs the pittance
to feed his clan
pay the mortgage
insulting
“adjustments”
can’t be made
shutdown’s
mounting
stress
*January 19, 2019
Categories:
pittance, angst, work,
Form:
Diminished Hexaverse
He mended shoes for a mere pittance
His payment was your smile
A craftsman from another age
Pride in his work his going wage
One morn his light was off, his door closed
His customers wept, understanding
Never again would they see his like
The call of his craft daily demanding…
Categories:
pittance, art, loss, lost, pride, work,
Form:
Rhyme
'Twas a tawdry affair that trifles pittance fare,
A Qualified Judge.
~0~
Allied With Grudge.
~0~
Pride Did Smudge.
~0~
Backslide By Nudge.
~0~
Denied To Rejudge.
~0~
Teary-Eyed No Budge.
~0~
"FORGIVENESS"
"Implied?" ... "Theorized!"
"Her fate has already been decided ..."
"... and what of me ...?"
"Your fate will be defined."
Categories:
pittance, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty, betrayal, judgement,
Form:
Vaasokht
George Rodrigue never expected the Blue Dog to be his ticket to fame
But it is, and it has never stopped
If you were one of the lucky ones, you have first editions
Purchased for a mere pittance on the streets of New Orleans
Others can copy it, but they had better not.
Everyone knows who has rights to the Blue Dog
George has become rich off of him, and rightly so
Categories:
pittance, art,
Form:
Free verse
In this godforsaken place, I felt disconnected
from the climbers around me--
emotionally, spiritually, physically…
Jon Krakauer pg 63 Into Thin Air
EVEREST
to breach topmost peak
one must reach
pittance of soul’s wit
bodies warmth
all but dead near climb’s
great escape
10/27/2021
Lune (Mixed Pair)
Sponsor: William Kekaula
Categories:
pittance, adventure, death, mountains,
Form:
Haiku
A book's a friend come winter's merciless frost
Outside, the teeth of Summer's scarecrows chatter
Reading days by lazy streams and willows lost
To brutal snows and howling nights they've scattered
A book's companionship's bought with little cost
The pittance spent per hundred page no matter
For deep within each line of buried treasure
Each sacred winter's night becomes a pleasure
Categories:
pittance, books, friendship, winter,
Form:
Ottava rima
What fortuitous pittance shall fate,
Afford this fiddle heart-
And render its fracture walls fixed?
What greasy charms-
From God's blessed bosom
Shall beguile her resolute hand,
A dark path to alter,
And sway my fall into the abyss?
In wonder do I ponder,
Whether the sum would suffice,
To lose my soul to the darkness-
For eternity to be;
But for in a momentary bliss bathe?
The Gods' Vagabond.
Categories:
pittance, self,
Form:
Free verse
The inexperienced poet created a pittance of an outline
Nothing mammoth, but it was a beginning
Her inspiring angel ran with it
Giving her fantastical ideas while she slumbered
Unfortunately none were retained upon her awakening
No worries the I.A. thought. There are million ideas from whence they came.
God smiled at her tenacious optimism.
Glad the supervising angel had assigned her to that particular poet.
Categories:
pittance, imagination, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Boiling away the edges
letting the core expand
Limitations drifting free
clarity at hand
Horizon coming at me
sky and earth as one
Sunsets in my memory
answers on the run
A token for the master
a pittance bye and bye
Value placed in what is not
scientists decry
My width and breadth immortal
the universe set free
To roam forever in my heart
—your eyes too blind to see
(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: May, 2022)
Categories:
pittance, visionary,
Form:
Rhyme
The rich are poor in giving
As the poor are rich in receiving
Pittance charity drips into their hold
Dearth of spices pounds
In the mortar of gifts
Unable to fill their palms.
Fingers more eager to receive
Meet the reluctant elbows to stretch
In a triangle
Which begets all
The artful few stay at the piercing top
And the teeming crowd languishing
At the broad base
This gloomy glom makes the triangle stand.
adahtony2019
Categories:
pittance, absence, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Majestic evergreens, ramrod tall, towering over the fence they border
Long-ago runts, thirsting for water, struggling for their place in the sun
Bought for a pittance, a young man's dreams egging them on
Now he's older, they've left him behind, stumbling in their wake
As they fight back against the chill Spring wind, headstrong as he once was
His laughter parting the very skies, pleading for Nature to take her course
Categories:
pittance, age, dream, strength, tree,
Form:
Free verse
I move along my path in cosmic silence,
a boulder to those shiny stones,
the stars I keep in sight.
The many times I curve around
the radiating fountain of my force
seems everlasting.
The space I travel through
is vast, and yet. . . .
to the eye of my Creator,
this voyage I make is but a jaunt.
His wait for me to cease
will have been a pittance of a pause.
I believe this has lost twice. Trying for third time a charm. hahaha
Categories:
pittance, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Padlocked are the Gate's
Stationary lie the Conveyor Belts
The Wheel upon the Mining Head Gear
Turns,
No more
The community has gone
So to is the Coal
And the Sunset
Resigned to History
No more mystery
Pressing a Museum to Explain
That what which our Elders did
For a measly pittance
To put food on his family's plate
And to afford a Pint after a hard days graft
With only a Helmet and Light
To find his way Home
Guardian Angel
Willing
Categories:
pittance, silver, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Sore Ankle
impatiently edging past my husband
the lid - lifts off - from the pot
microwave still ajar
He Cares
not in mood to hear capitulation
at my ankle’s screaming pittance
I harden, he softens
Introspect
his kindness and care remove my black ring
my mood slowly turning blue
not unlike my ankle
Prologue
microwave does not throw out dirty looks
nor does it knock out the light
that fills room with gladness
Categories:
pittance, angst, care, love, pain,
Form:
Kimo
Bits 'n Pieces of my soul
to be downloaded by the Marketplace
(or souled for a pittance at your request)
Doth thou find me Likeable?
God Bless my Fakebook Self!
All the shiny bots N pieces I've manicured just for you?
Why, they're just a miniscule reflection
An endless mirror,
scattered pixellated gems--
An electronic finger pointing back at Me.
The manicured, curated Me I've
divvied up for you to see, Yes--
but Nonetheless, you didn't protest;
Or did Thou?
Categories:
pittance, conflict, irony, perspective, satire, technology,
Form:
Free verse