Tycoons Poems

Premium MemberLife Is A Gamble

...There is a town that is so enchanting,
at it’s center a strip of wild saloons.
A hidden game’s still in play enticing
gentlemen with a lust for golden spoons.
While holding a Joker’s hand start b...
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Categories: tycoons, adventure, emotions, games, nostalgia,
Form: Ottava rima

Premium MemberFarewell To Fair Play

...The Gilded Age by Mark Twain in his 1873 novel /The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized the era's materialism and political corruption is just what this King has ordered in his Megabill ...
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Categories: tycoons, farewell, freedom, independence day,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberWhen the Poem Became Tears

...When the poem became tears 
As the ink drips, 
I have become an emotional basket case.
My keyboard squeals, as the businessman's anxiety climbs
At the sound of the opening bells,

Tariff wars t...
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Categories: tycoons, addiction, africa, america, analogy,
Form: Narrative

It's The Norm For The Lonely One

...Look around your surroundings,
which abnormal things do you see clearly?
People catching busses and trains,
or the unkept beggar asking for money?

It's the norm for the lonely one to desire 
e...
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Categories: tycoons, celebration, children, dream, happiness,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberTime Traveler - A Message for Humanity

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(Day 1)

"O Wise Raven, Sage of the Skies, tell me what you have seen from your perch set on high."

"Mortal Man, I feel no compulsion to reveal to you that which I have witnessed wi...
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Categories: tycoons, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry


Premium MemberFight For French Delicacy

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I am reporting from Normandy,
where a cheese war has started
between two hospitality business tycoons,
for acquiring the ownership of a shipload
of Brie and Comembert soft and creamy cheese,
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Categories: tycoons, imagination, war,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberDo We Matter

..."You matter," she said. Those two words. I had been feeling really down of late, like a worm that isn't even worthy of becoming bait. "Listen," I argued, "There are eight billion people on this plane...
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Categories: tycoons, inspirational,
Form: Narrative

The Hijacker Who Was Hijacked

...THE HIJACKER WHO WAS HIJACKED

The mission is the pursuit of Caicedo,
the race has been on since the January set-go,
keepin' the paparazzis tongue in closed bridle.
Call Liverpool Big Jax of the...
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Categories: tycoons, 1st grade,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberRavages of Time

...Even the most powerful fall in the end
No matter the prestige they fall like all men
Tycoons with fortune
Lowly street urchins
No one is immune time does not bend...
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Categories: tycoons, sad,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMoments For Philanthropy

...One day, we will organize things by priority
Emphasize your health over your bounty
Favoring lenient prophylaxis above authority
In favor of people, rather than oil paucity
Up to this...
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Categories: tycoons, appreciation, caregiving, forgiveness,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberRavages of Time

...Even the most powerful fall in the end
No matter the prestige they fall like all men
Tycoons with fortune
Lowly street urchins
No one's immune, time does not bend...
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Categories: tycoons, tree,
Form: Limerick

Unwrapped

...Standing underneath the tree
                  Set and ready, just for me
Christmas morn held my surprise
      Through my half shut, sleepy eyes

There I saw this massive stand
              A...
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Categories: tycoons, child, childhood, christmas, happy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThere Ain'T No Santa Claus

...Dear little children gather near
there is something I must share
be so silent and lend me your ears
THERE AIN'T NO SANTA CLAUS!

Your mom and dad work so hard
they pay for Christmas on a credit...
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Categories: tycoons, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Grass May Not Be Greener, But -

...Here in Chicago, Illinois the landscape is flat
  No hill or vale to break the monotony
A concrete jungle downtown, surrounded by highway
  Leading to endless cornfields south of the metropolis

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Categories: tycoons, chicago, home, water, weather,
Form: Free verse

Sabbath Seizures

...A Paiute baptised, "Minnie Moons"
Was the thrill of Phoenix tycoons
At Sun City Dunes
With Silver Spoon Prunes
They loved pornographic cartoons...
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Categories: tycoons, humor,
Form: Limerick

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