Short Pittance Poems

Time creeps further by
A wealth of horror stories
A pittance of joy...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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     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… 
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'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."

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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)...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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
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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?...

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