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.
oldmanG
Poem Published
4th Jan 2025 6:06am
4th Jan 2025 6:06am
How can a Vote (Mean more than the Truth)
How can a vote
Mean more than the truth
It’s what we teach our kids
To tell the truth
A bedrock belief
It’s what we all stand for
Truth will set you free
It’ll set us free
It’s all about power
Truth doesn’t matter
Try and tell my kids
To be on the up and up
And they see liars and thiefs
Not live up to us
What should they think
When it’s up to us
To not give in to the noise that’s all around
Facts are sound
Since when do we believe
In fantasies
And...
Mean more than the truth
It’s what we teach our kids
To tell the truth
A bedrock belief
It’s what we all stand for
Truth will set you free
It’ll set us free
It’s all about power
Truth doesn’t matter
Try and tell my kids
To be on the up and up
And they see liars and thiefs
Not live up to us
What should they think
When it’s up to us
To not give in to the noise that’s all around
Facts are sound
Since when do we believe
In fantasies
And...
#corruption
#deception
#greed #lies
#greed #lies
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Poet__2248
Poem Published
3rd Jan 2025 3:59pm
3rd Jan 2025 3:59pm
Block your ears
Do not look me when you cut
When you scissor and saw my flesh
When you chisel my bones
and wrap my hair
Do not swap my flesh for plastic
Do not fill my cheeks with youth you've crafted from mulch
Or sculpt my teeth with metal
Do not force me to watch
Her mock her adult body
Or hear you sneer with hatred
At her crying
Do not inject my chest with sweetener
Or my bum with fat
Block her ears so she do not hear to your whining
Your insecure complaints
About appearance and age
As I did
When you scissor and saw my flesh
When you chisel my bones
and wrap my hair
Do not swap my flesh for plastic
Do not fill my cheeks with youth you've crafted from mulch
Or sculpt my teeth with metal
Do not force me to watch
Her mock her adult body
Or hear you sneer with hatred
At her crying
Do not inject my chest with sweetener
Or my bum with fat
Block her ears so she do not hear to your whining
Your insecure complaints
About appearance and age
As I did
#anger
#apocalypse
#despair
#frustration
#greed
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PittinixDesigns
Poem Published
3rd Jan 2025 3:39pm
3rd Jan 2025 3:39pm
Weh Yuh Tink Bout Dis?
(Patois)
Peeple oo cyarry news pahn addaz fi get pozishan wok a noh gud werka.
A yuh skill mek yuh get pozishan wok, nat news cyarryin.
Nobaddi cyahn wok aad inof fi impress di wickid baas dem.
If di baas dem nuo sey yuh cyahn wok aad, dem wi kill yuh wid wok.
Some a unu love fi gamble caw unu red yai ahn bad mine.
Unu wahn fi win adda peeple mony ahn live eezy life.
Unu fi tap gamble weh unu mony pahn rieshawse ahn Latto.
Buy gud food wid unu mony ahn tek kier a unu bady.
As a matta a fak, di peeple dem oo sumuok...
Peeple oo cyarry news pahn addaz fi get pozishan wok a noh gud werka.
A yuh skill mek yuh get pozishan wok, nat news cyarryin.
Nobaddi cyahn wok aad inof fi impress di wickid baas dem.
If di baas dem nuo sey yuh cyahn wok aad, dem wi kill yuh wid wok.
Some a unu love fi gamble caw unu red yai ahn bad mine.
Unu wahn fi win adda peeple mony ahn live eezy life.
Unu fi tap gamble weh unu mony pahn rieshawse ahn Latto.
Buy gud food wid unu mony ahn tek kier a unu bady.
As a matta a fak, di peeple dem oo sumuok...
#Christian
#greed
#job
#marijuana
#money
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DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
3rd Jan 2025 7:45am
3rd Jan 2025 7:45am
Razor-Blades
Slippery like a serpent with an agenda for war
Born on third base and believes he hit a triple
Empty vessel on lease to some corporate whore
Emotional ignorance hides an intellectual cripple
Words are razor-blades irritating his fragile soul
Constant reminders that he doesn’t measure up
Heavy handed hypocrite is prone to lose control
Only brand that matters is plastered on his cup
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
Born on third base and believes he hit a triple
Empty vessel on lease to some corporate whore
Emotional ignorance hides an intellectual cripple
Words are razor-blades irritating his fragile soul
Constant reminders that he doesn’t measure up
Heavy handed hypocrite is prone to lose control
Only brand that matters is plastered on his cup
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
#greed
#satirical
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ClovenTongue34
Poem Published
1st Jan 2025 4:01am
1st Jan 2025 4:01am
Scarcely Saved
Mortgages and scam artist economics
Lost for credit scores, price gouging insurances and empty promise loans
Exploiting desperation to survive
Collecting on consumerist efforts of commercially instigated bondages of routine dysfunction
Everyone is a dealer when materialism is a vice and merchandise is paraphernalia
Lost for the let down of money highs
Temporal joys are a set up for the insatiable sorrows of inevitable loss
How do you count the cost of living when all we know is the toll in the aftermath of experience?
Born...
Lost for credit scores, price gouging insurances and empty promise loans
Exploiting desperation to survive
Collecting on consumerist efforts of commercially instigated bondages of routine dysfunction
Everyone is a dealer when materialism is a vice and merchandise is paraphernalia
Lost for the let down of money highs
Temporal joys are a set up for the insatiable sorrows of inevitable loss
How do you count the cost of living when all we know is the toll in the aftermath of experience?
Born...
#corruption
#greed
#job
#money
#poverty
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backdeckbenny
Poem Published
28th Dec 2024 7:22pm
28th Dec 2024 7:22pm
Greedy Bastard
Can you not just be content.....
Content in this moment......
No need to experience anything new.
You have it all.
Right here,right now.
You're the lucky one.
But the saddest one.
Awake in your future.
Asleep in your NOW.
Does the sky ask for more?
Content in this moment......
No need to experience anything new.
You have it all.
Right here,right now.
You're the lucky one.
But the saddest one.
Awake in your future.
Asleep in your NOW.
Does the sky ask for more?
#greed
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DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
28th Dec 2024 8:36am
28th Dec 2024 8:36am
Pig In A Suit
Pig in a suit grizzly stench of death
Spewing a lie never blinking twice
Muttering insults under vile breath
Teflon soul with a heart cold as ice
Evidence denied video has a flaw
Conveniently it wasn’t working that day
Projection is nine tenths of the law
Turns out that’s enough to simply walk away
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2024
Spewing a lie never blinking twice
Muttering insults under vile breath
Teflon soul with a heart cold as ice
Evidence denied video has a flaw
Conveniently it wasn’t working that day
Projection is nine tenths of the law
Turns out that’s enough to simply walk away
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2024
#evil
#greed
#satirical
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poet5678
CHUCKLES 123
CHUCKLES 123
Poem Published
28th Dec 2024 00:52am
28th Dec 2024 00:52am
If I didn't had your love
If I didn't had your love
My father
I would not be able to live
Without your love
Please father give me
Some love
Because I know that
You have lots of love to spare
You are the one made love
With your holy hands
AIso it is love that reals
My broken heart
That is in pain
I already took lots of pain killers
And nothing worked
Yes I overdose on pain killers
That is something that is very dangerous to do
But I also was getting desperate
Yes father lots of people broke my heart again
I also don't know...
My father
I would not be able to live
Without your love
Please father give me
Some love
Because I know that
You have lots of love to spare
You are the one made love
With your holy hands
AIso it is love that reals
My broken heart
That is in pain
I already took lots of pain killers
And nothing worked
Yes I overdose on pain killers
That is something that is very dangerous to do
But I also was getting desperate
Yes father lots of people broke my heart again
I also don't know...
#emptiness
#fear
#frustration
#greed
#shame
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poet5678
CHUCKLES 123
CHUCKLES 123
Poem Published
21st Dec 2024 8:48pm
21st Dec 2024 8:48pm
Now that the long night is over
Now that the long night is over
We had a long sleep
Now my Father
Brought the morning for us
First thing in the morning
Now it is time to say good morning to each other
It is finally a beautiful day
Outside
We just got up now
We are ready to enjoy this beautiful sunny day
That our Father gave to us
We are lucky to have a beautiful morning
With lots of sun
We are glad that there is no sign of rain
Also we are getting lots of vitamin d
This morning
We had a long sleep
Now my Father
Brought the morning for us
First thing in the morning
Now it is time to say good morning to each other
It is finally a beautiful day
Outside
We just got up now
We are ready to enjoy this beautiful sunny day
That our Father gave to us
We are lucky to have a beautiful morning
With lots of sun
We are glad that there is no sign of rain
Also we are getting lots of vitamin d
This morning
#confusion
#denial
#greed
#heartbroken
#sadness
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Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
21st Dec 2024 11:18am
21st Dec 2024 11:18am
Lust
We melted into thick fog
Hand in hand
Watching the moon
Slowly rise and wane
Eyes fixed on each other
Spinning our web
Of selfish lust
Desiring to be fed
Unaware our creation
Was a poisonous parasite
And would slowly eat away
Until our desire would die
Hand in hand
Watching the moon
Slowly rise and wane
Eyes fixed on each other
Spinning our web
Of selfish lust
Desiring to be fed
Unaware our creation
Was a poisonous parasite
And would slowly eat away
Until our desire would die
#dark
#greed
#heartbroken
#lust
#sadness
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Academic
Poem Published
20th Dec 2024 7:31am
20th Dec 2024 7:31am
Royal warrants scattered like confetti and rather honestly actually, about as useful really!
By Stanley Collymore
Royal warrants aren't recognized
worldwide as anything literally
significant except in the UK.
So why would anyone, who is not a UK
resident or a monarchical sycophant
be so impressed, by them? Because
someone was literally employed, by
a really laughably, so-caled royal, in
their chosen profession? And, thus,
are more likely really to specifically
financially, support these allegedly
stated monarchs and their familial
kin in situ,...
Royal warrants aren't recognized
worldwide as anything literally
significant except in the UK.
So why would anyone, who is not a UK
resident or a monarchical sycophant
be so impressed, by them? Because
someone was literally employed, by
a really laughably, so-caled royal, in
their chosen profession? And, thus,
are more likely really to specifically
financially, support these allegedly
stated monarchs and their familial
kin in situ,...
#apathy
#dark
#denial
#emptiness
#greed
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cantocinque
Poem Published
19th Dec 2024 10:38pm
19th Dec 2024 10:38pm
thinking haiku
transnational boys
corporations run amuck
disrupt common good
corporations run amuck
disrupt common good
#corruption
#greed
#inequality #oppression
#inequality #oppression
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