Short Polloi Poems

Hoi Polloi Loses The Way

You gravitate away
from the Lamb
who saved your Day
turn back;for you've
lost your way!
Yet, fear not,
for the Prodical Son
wound up with 
a glorious day!

McCuen Copyright October 2008...

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Hoi Polloi: Kick it Up a Notch!
      You must do more
   or your grades wont get
        the needed score
           don't you see
      what could be in store?
       Now, get your degree;
       make sure you don't flop
or you could wind up pushing the mop!


McCuen Copyright October 2008...

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When I look in your eyes I see a beaut,
The aspect of your love is unexceeded.
I'd give entirely everything in the cosmos,
For you?, how I feel is illimitable.

The nomenclature of our kinship is unlike others,
Sadness hates our happiness...ignoble hoi polloi.
Maybe a baby one day can join our 2's company,
To make a long story short..............I love you....

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A TV commercial wants me to buy gold,
another one offers me a full pound of Morgan Silver Dollars
if I hand over a pile of cash.

Poets are rarely rich nowadays.
Back when, poets were moody and secretly gay
people wore smoking jackets
or puffy clouds of crinoline.
You could tell they were hoy polloi,
and regular folks assumed that only
those that did not need to work wrote stuff.

Poetry nowadays might get you some gold,
but probably not enough for a tooth filling or two -
maybe....

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