Short Spendthrift Poems

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Premium Member For

For evermore I will repent
For not having saved a cent
For my retiring aging years.
For spendthrift ways I am in tears
Form: Couplet


Premium Member miser

miser cheap, selfish hoarding, saving, concealing money, supplies, jewelry, credit spending, wasting, cluttering heedless, selfish spendthrift
Form: Diamante

Premium Member An Informal Wolfhound

A spendthrift lady in New Orleans
clothed her wolfhound beyond her means
But he despised his top hats
and old-fashioned spats
Now he sports tie-died T-shirts and jeans
Form: Limerick

Premium Member thought I needed a wheelbarrow

I thought I needed a wheelbarrow
Ordered a blue one and was cleaning up my yard piles
When I discovered the identical one, I had purchased last year
The perils of being a spendthrift!!
me

Spendthrift-Skinflint

Spendthrift...Skinflint

                              spendthrift
                       extravagant, wasteful
                  buying, shopping, squandering
               presents, parcels, deposits, interest, 
                    counting, banking, hoarding
                            tightfisted, miserly
                                    skinflint
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Diamante


Poet's Plea

Poet's Plea


I pray not to carve sculpture
whittled by a frenzied rupture
Which, like a portent fist
bollocks to shard all the gist.

Instead, Oh Greatest Lord,
I pray for gift of a kind Word  
swinging not like a dry sword;

That, perchance, it may drift
Like of a selfless spendthrift
Spirit of the wretched to uplift!


31st August 2013
Form: Verse

Eagles Aloft But Disguised

I
Humans are divine, but watch & emulate pigs

II
We have body-vehicles; "I'm my car," is like thinking you are poultry 

III
Scripture helps us recall our divinity (versus eating with pigs, as the fate of The rude spendthrift & HEIR in LUKE 15, teaches us)

IV
Earthly problems drag us to poultry level.

Recall you are an eagle; fly with eagles
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Isthmus of Time

ISTHMUS OF TIME e b o n y capes with d e r v i s h eyes, transfixed on my pulse countdown of cheering red wine goblets cascading so much ~ time ~ spendthrift fragile hours cutting deep veins salting them with tears brain clings to side of pot zombie moon’s hosting party 10/23/2017 Deep and Dark II Contest by Laura Loo
1st place

Premium Member Power To Run

“He's out of his league” the saying goes
Deliver the words to a poignant rapture
Along the way and through the never
Success brings a certain stumbling

Darker each day, the writing withers
Even the best delay induction
Fortune belies the power to run
A mind to the source instruction

Since a spendthrift soon wilts
Better to crack wide-open throttle
Rather than bottle what cannot be stopped 
Stamped incongruent but not incomplete

Gluttony Takes No Prisoners

Gluttony takes no prisoners,
And leaves nothing behind to grow,
Except the need for more.

Gluttony unchecked will end our planets usefulness,
But not our usefulness,
In helping Gluttony get to more and more planets.

More, more, more, and ever more,
Is Gluttony's call to all but the wiry,
And the spendthrift,
The non-alcoholic,
And the tree Hugger,
The Hermit,
And the one actually on a diet.

But is six enough,
To reverse the damage, 
From decades of overindulgence?
Form: Burlesque

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