Poems about Greed
#greed
Poems about greed, poetry about the intense and selfish desire for wealth, power or food. Poems about personal feelings of greed and the greed of others, and poetry about how greed effects individuals and society as a whole.
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
Yesterday 6:47am
Yesterday 6:47am
Straw-Man
Wealthy white men consumed with greed
Business meetings are a verbal circle jerk
Corrupt power junkies with an ego to feed
Bad intentions always hide behind a smirk
Doublespeak laced with some political jive
Demonic spirts nest beneath a simple mind
Conspiracy plans are alibis used to survive
Loopholes in the law a scapegoat in a bind
Worshipping a straw-man that they created
While cowards lie to protect the investment
Proposed numbers been artificially inflated
For this is a hotbed that breeds resentment
...
Business meetings are a verbal circle jerk
Corrupt power junkies with an ego to feed
Bad intentions always hide behind a smirk
Doublespeak laced with some political jive
Demonic spirts nest beneath a simple mind
Conspiracy plans are alibis used to survive
Loopholes in the law a scapegoat in a bind
Worshipping a straw-man that they created
While cowards lie to protect the investment
Proposed numbers been artificially inflated
For this is a hotbed that breeds resentment
...
#corruption
#greed
61 reads
14 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
22nd Nov 2024 11:14pm
22nd Nov 2024 11:14pm
Drug taking and its addiction coupled with the rather crass hypocrisy associated with its taking!
By Stanley Collymore
The hypocrisy quite honestly is startling!
Thus the sole reasons that widespread
drug taking and addiction, evidently in
tandem with its discernibly self-evidently also
universal dealing and importation into Britain
is so passively and even enticingly tolerated,
and no truly effective and also discouraging legislation is ever, very seriously introduced
into parliament! Which is precisely because
of the critical prevalence of a rather natural addiction to drugs and its simply attendant
and quite consummate...
The hypocrisy quite honestly is startling!
Thus the sole reasons that widespread
drug taking and addiction, evidently in
tandem with its discernibly self-evidently also
universal dealing and importation into Britain
is so passively and even enticingly tolerated,
and no truly effective and also discouraging legislation is ever, very seriously introduced
into parliament! Which is precisely because
of the critical prevalence of a rather natural addiction to drugs and its simply attendant
and quite consummate...
#dark
#denial
#emptiness
#greed
#hate
26 reads
3 Comments
MalcolmG
Poem Published
22nd Nov 2024 10:00pm
22nd Nov 2024 10:00pm
The Oblique Throne
Beneath the veneer of gilded eminence,
Where banners whisper of liberty’s pretense,
An insidious pestilence threads its way,
A labyrinthine decay in the guise of sway.
Bribes clink like spectral bells in the void,
Transactions muttered, destinies destroyed.
Thus, the calculus of corruption unfurls
A calculus steeped in gilded whorls.
Men anointed by the faceless tide
Bargain the marrow of nations with pride.
Nepotistic skeins entangle the just,
And cronyistic engines corrode the trust.
What laws emerge from such infernal looms?...
Where banners whisper of liberty’s pretense,
An insidious pestilence threads its way,
A labyrinthine decay in the guise of sway.
Bribes clink like spectral bells in the void,
Transactions muttered, destinies destroyed.
Thus, the calculus of corruption unfurls
A calculus steeped in gilded whorls.
Men anointed by the faceless tide
Bargain the marrow of nations with pride.
Nepotistic skeins entangle the just,
And cronyistic engines corrode the trust.
What laws emerge from such infernal looms?...
#corruption
#greed
#politics
31 reads
1 Comment
oldmanG
Poem Published
22nd Nov 2024 4:11am
22nd Nov 2024 4:11am
Against the rain(reign)
Holding up a tent against the rain
Buckets flooding in try to save the food
Wetness pouring in push the rain to the river
Take me to your servant pull up bozi you’ll get cramps in the water
Morning rises rain realizes and recedes
Dancing with good music
Cry again and cry again feel the rhythm
Of Kinshasa thank you for your attention
It’s the other friends turn keep the rain away
Here it comes again wring out my wet clothes
Wind howling tarps flying away
Hold on tight can’t...
Buckets flooding in try to save the food
Wetness pouring in push the rain to the river
Take me to your servant pull up bozi you’ll get cramps in the water
Morning rises rain realizes and recedes
Dancing with good music
Cry again and cry again feel the rhythm
Of Kinshasa thank you for your attention
It’s the other friends turn keep the rain away
Here it comes again wring out my wet clothes
Wind howling tarps flying away
Hold on tight can’t...
#corruption
#freedom
#greed #politics
#greed #politics
38 reads
0 Comments
James_A_Knight
Poem Published
21st Nov 2024 8:34pm
21st Nov 2024 8:34pm
The UK
The UK is getting shitter by the day. It's not a question of money, more a question of corruption.
Tax is illegal to avoid unless you are rich enough to steal from the government, with a contract you never have to honour.
The food is being watered down because the people were manipulated into leaving the EU.
People pay millions for health care they are excluded from.
the water companies are polluting, river, lake, and sea.
They tell us to recycle and put it all in the landfill anyway.
We are told that the rest of the world has...
Tax is illegal to avoid unless you are rich enough to steal from the government, with a contract you never have to honour.
The food is being watered down because the people were manipulated into leaving the EU.
People pay millions for health care they are excluded from.
the water companies are polluting, river, lake, and sea.
They tell us to recycle and put it all in the landfill anyway.
We are told that the rest of the world has...
#greed
#hypocrisy
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oldmanG
Poem Published
21st Nov 2024 1:51pm
21st Nov 2024 1:51pm
Under My Ark
Buy an Ark
Transport just my family
Ark is big enough but you aren’t coming
Ark on Gravel, big wheels, better watch out
Ark just mowed down 7 little kids I couldn’t see
But I’m on the Ark I feel like a Viking King
Don’t pay attention to the lives I mowed down
Feel Real Big On a Viking Sled
My family is protected by my Ark
Don’t think about other people on the streets
My Ark is my Covenant but not to you
You are gravel under my Ark’s wheels
My family is...
Transport just my family
Ark is big enough but you aren’t coming
Ark on Gravel, big wheels, better watch out
Ark just mowed down 7 little kids I couldn’t see
But I’m on the Ark I feel like a Viking King
Don’t pay attention to the lives I mowed down
Feel Real Big On a Viking Sled
My family is protected by my Ark
Don’t think about other people on the streets
My Ark is my Covenant but not to you
You are gravel under my Ark’s wheels
My family is...
#anger
#cars
#death
#fear
#greed
33 reads
3 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
20th Nov 2024 1:22pm
20th Nov 2024 1:22pm
Breaking News! Fearing the outbreak of WW3 France has discreetly already surrendered!
By Stanley Collymore
This is actually as a consequence
of the Joe Biden Administration
essentially trying to create as
much trouble as it quite simply can, for the
incoming Donald Trump one! And logically
observing this, and effectively, perceptibly
so from both a quite personal and as well
also a literally unquestionably, thoroughly
significantly, objective perspective; firmly,
such undoubtedly, self-evidently massive
decisions such as this one with the likely
prospect evidently of global warfare very ...
This is actually as a consequence
of the Joe Biden Administration
essentially trying to create as
much trouble as it quite simply can, for the
incoming Donald Trump one! And logically
observing this, and effectively, perceptibly
so from both a quite personal and as well
also a literally unquestionably, thoroughly
significantly, objective perspective; firmly,
such undoubtedly, self-evidently massive
decisions such as this one with the likely
prospect evidently of global warfare very ...
#dark
#denial
#emptiness
#greed
#hate
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Academic
Poem Published
19th Nov 2024 8:32pm
19th Nov 2024 8:32pm
And me too, publicly and clearly conveniently shouts the odious, vulturine egoist Nadine Dorries!
By Stanley Collymore
Quite bluntly I don't believe a solitary
word that this plainly malevolently
egregious, actually egotistically
inured, discernibly rabid attention seeker and
toxically, though pathetically so, significantly,
basically vaingloriously, virtue-signalling and
post-menopausal hag, is lyingly stating! This
sprog, obviously born on the 21st May 1957,
allegedly sexually assaulted by a vicar when
she was aged nine and thus mathematically
a situation that would have very purportedly
occurred in 1966, but...
Quite bluntly I don't believe a solitary
word that this plainly malevolently
egregious, actually egotistically
inured, discernibly rabid attention seeker and
toxically, though pathetically so, significantly,
basically vaingloriously, virtue-signalling and
post-menopausal hag, is lyingly stating! This
sprog, obviously born on the 21st May 1957,
allegedly sexually assaulted by a vicar when
she was aged nine and thus mathematically
a situation that would have very purportedly
occurred in 1966, but...
#dark
#denial
#emptiness
#greed
#hate
26 reads
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oldmanG
Poem Published
19th Nov 2024 3:23am
19th Nov 2024 3:23am
Diana
Flash goes off
My life is extinguished
Lasting in my floating nightmares
Can’t come up for air
Coulda been the queen
Living fairytale dreams
Instead twisted and bleeding
In the back of an Audi
Vultures on the kill
Snapping to feed the till
Piranha on the flesh
Down to bone
My life is extinguished
Lasting in my floating nightmares
Can’t come up for air
Coulda been the queen
Living fairytale dreams
Instead twisted and bleeding
In the back of an Audi
Vultures on the kill
Snapping to feed the till
Piranha on the flesh
Down to bone
#greed
#grief
#heartbroken #shame
#heartbroken #shame
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0 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
18th Nov 2024 1:40pm
18th Nov 2024 1:40pm
The Church of England - Disestablishment won't be amiss for the right reasons, though not convenient ones.
By Stanley Collymore
Henry VIII wanted, against proper
religious protocols, the express
disapproval, and similarly too
the implacable non-consent of the Pope, at
the time as well as undoubtedly the Roman
Catholic's, obviously controlling authorities,
to flimsily divorce his lawful wife Catherine
of Aragon and crucially, marry his mistress
Anne Boleyn: who, actually, most ironically,
on his quite arbitrarily, breaking away from
the Roman Catholic Church really because
of the clearly aforementioned stated facts ...
Henry VIII wanted, against proper
religious protocols, the express
disapproval, and similarly too
the implacable non-consent of the Pope, at
the time as well as undoubtedly the Roman
Catholic's, obviously controlling authorities,
to flimsily divorce his lawful wife Catherine
of Aragon and crucially, marry his mistress
Anne Boleyn: who, actually, most ironically,
on his quite arbitrarily, breaking away from
the Roman Catholic Church really because
of the clearly aforementioned stated facts ...
#dark
#denial
#fear
#greed
#hate
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0 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
17th Nov 2024 7:26pm
17th Nov 2024 7:26pm
The pervasive feudal-mindset shackles of privileged, private education, in the UK and USA!
By Stanley Collymore
In very marked contrast to Britain
the rest of Europe and most of
the world, quality education
is mainly publicly funded and is furthermore
universally publicly and also politically seen
as an inalienable right for everyone; and as
such most certainly and quite evidently not
simply, only a privilege for some! Moreover,
numerous countries globally provide better
education, and literally do so with fees that
obviously cost 95% less to students than it
basically would in Britain and likewise also ...
In very marked contrast to Britain
the rest of Europe and most of
the world, quality education
is mainly publicly funded and is furthermore
universally publicly and also politically seen
as an inalienable right for everyone; and as
such most certainly and quite evidently not
simply, only a privilege for some! Moreover,
numerous countries globally provide better
education, and literally do so with fees that
obviously cost 95% less to students than it
basically would in Britain and likewise also ...
#dark
#denial
#emptiness
#greed
#hate
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poet5678
CHUCKLES 123
CHUCKLES 123
Poem Published
17th Nov 2024 7:23pm
17th Nov 2024 7:23pm
Especially me
Especially me
I was made by God
A long time a go
Also I always try To
Think positive
I am always glad
That I am alive
Every day
I was made by God
A long time a go
Also I always try To
Think positive
I am always glad
That I am alive
Every day
#anxiety
#emptiness
#greed
#regret
#shame
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