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Shortage Poems - Poems about Shortage


Premium Member Courage, Porridge Portage Shortage
weighing curds and whey the spider spied, her courage curdled, ran away ---------- another alliterative haiku for you...

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Categories: shortage, nursery rhyme,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Food Supply Shortage
worms burying deep robins no longer forage food supply shortage Written September 11, 2022...

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Categories: shortage, autumn, bird, food,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member A Short Song For You
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream… No tears, no complaints, far cheaper than gasoline! 7/21/202. ...

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Categories: shortage, funny,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member No Baby Formula
No baby formula here or there. No baby formula anywhere. I guess the babies will have to go back to the breast. But wait a second, the mommies are out of the nest. The mommies are working to pay for the baby food. The daddies are parenting, it puts them in a really bad mood. Baby formula had better be forthcoming...

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Categories: shortage, baby,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gas Shortage
We may be nuked by Russia, As we have plentiful gas here! Ukrainians, Russians, dying under horror and pressure. While inflation, keeps rising and America sits on her rear! Xi warned Biden, “ do not sanction us!’ Yet our entire free world is at stake. But our President thinks, it is far too much of a fuss. Some cold soul in our Congress, Said, ‘just take...

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Categories: shortage, abuse, america, corruption,
Form: Couplet



Water Shortage
Water shortage In the deepest valley where the winter is short summers long, sheep come home for safety of bears and wolves, he bought an old house. From a two hundred years house, a cane roof sprung splendid isolation he lived the seasons fair. Unknow to him and other dwellers of this Paradise plans afoot to make the valley into a...

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Categories: shortage, art, beach, betrayal, color,
Form: Sonnet
Shortage
There once was a shortage on coins In a coinless town call, DE Moines Paper money was all It was stack six feet tall Seeing it, made others shook in their loins...

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Categories: shortage, humor,
Form: Limerick
Bar None No Shortage of Soap Shampoo, Nor Detergent
Bar none, no shortage of soap shampoo, nor detergent Courtesy food pantries Saint Eleanor's Saint Mary's, Our Daily Bread, the missus and yours truly (her spouse) well stocked with good n plenti of soap, shampoo and detergent. Spongebob squarepants would be in seventh heaven, where sudsy clouds (resembling Mister Krabs, Plankton, Sandy Cheeks, Squidward, et cetera), would drift across celestial vault. Gratitude bequeathed to prophets of virtue benevolent good...

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Categories: shortage, adventure, appreciation, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse
Food Shortage
Manufacturing mistakes or fragrant fraud Decide for yourself but the produce is flawed Average contents fifty, on this match box of mine But when I counted, their was only forty nine If they sold a million match box a day, with one match short That’s a million matches saved, theirs a thought Misery A box of headache pills with half the...

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Categories: shortage, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Velveeta Shortage Alarms Consumers
Velveeta Shortage Alarms Consumers By Elton Camp Short supply is beginning to ensure Cheese lovers don’t know what to do There’s panic buying in the store Unsure when they’ll be any more Velveeta’s so good and healthy too Gourmets are hoping it’s not true So all who love its rubbery taste Rush to the market with all haste There’s good reason to fear From shelves...

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Categories: shortage, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Water Shortage
Water Shortage I have seen the future Water famine and revolutions Wars over water, No not the kind of balloons Of water people throw at Each other, nor A wet t. shirt competition, But real war with blood that Runs into dry gutters Rustlers who kill animals for Their blood and leave carcasses To rot in the field. Chilled blood with a...

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Categories: shortage, fear, life, visionary, future,
Form: Blank verse
The Coming Bacon Shortage
The Coming Bacon Shortage By Elton Camp Even though the press release was mistaken, It told of an unavoidable shortage of bacon Then when it was picked up on the Internet, Loads of worldwide publicity it did get That fat & cholesterol they won’t be getting To many folks was just terribly upsetting The corn crop was damaged by drought Is what the press...

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Categories: shortage, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Revenue Shortage
Revenue Shortage Pillage Village Millage Usage Slippery men, pillage village books. Breaker of trust, millage, usage crooks. © Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen March 16, 2010 Poetic form: Tyburn...

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Categories: shortage, people, political
Form: Tyburn

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