Short Spendthrift Poems

Wasteful can't succeed
Due to fear of poverty
Plus, spring with greed....

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Your money,your belongings you are the adviser,
Spend,not a spendthrift nor going miser!...

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$$$$$
$$$$$$$
$$spendthrift.

4/3/2023...

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

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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...

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To your selfish, spendthrift posterity
bequeath them not so much as a penny.
Lavish it on yourself and extravagantly
then secretly file for bankruptcy.
And, if you’re really smart, pray fervently
your life is shortened prematurely –
why wait to die at hands without mercy?
...

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To your selfish, spendthrift posterity
bequeath them not so much as a penny.
Lavish it on yourself and extravagantly
then secretly file for bankruptcy.
And, if you’re really smart, pray fervently
your life is shortened prematurely –
why wait to die by hands that know no mercy?
...

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Spendthrift...Skinflint

                              spendthrift
                       extravagant, wasteful
                  buying, shopping, squandering
               presents, parcels, deposits, interest, 
                    counting, banking, hoarding
                            tightfisted, miserly
                                    skinflint...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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“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...

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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?...

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