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Backslapping Poems - Poems about Backslapping

Woodpeckers in Silence

...The stench of puerile self-aggrandizement wafts through the air, a noxious cloud of platitudes and pomp, as the pusillanimous pustules of pseudo-intellectualism congregate to lavish accolades upon on...

Categories: backslapping, dark,
Form: Free verse

Now Its My Boxes - In Trumps Own Words

...Can you believe it, indicted again,
By a bunch of pure zealots, callous grey men,
Political hacks given the task,
To take down the Don and in the limelight then bask.
Find any cause, invent a goo...

Categories: backslapping, america, humor, leadership, parody,
Form: Quatrain

Feeding Frenzy

...The brighter colors are the first to go
as everything first fades to shades of grey
then eventually, to black or white.

Valid reasons come down to yes or no
then questioning to whom it is I pra...

Categories: backslapping, war,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Commenting Capers

...Oh..without approval, we think we shall
all but die..
Thus, writing comments, till sunrise is 
just about all night?

A backslapping poetic troupe some be.
When did the Creator say,” honor each...

Categories: backslapping, internet, poets,
Form: Rhyme

The Horseman

...You knew he was in when you heard the loud din,
his trademark for letting folks know,
he had arrived and his voice loudly cried,
to make sure that we knew it was Joe.

The whole bar was alert, w...

Categories: backslapping, horse, humorous, smile,
Form: Rhyme

Mean Mien Donald Trump

...Former CIA Director
John Brennan scathing headlines
Washington Post op-ed sharply
published critical accusations

muted excoriation slams
Commander in Chief
volcanic blatant pathological lying...

Categories: backslapping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse

The typestry of memories

...In the depths of gloomy memories,
Where shadows dance and light fades,
A tapestry of thoughts unravels,
Some to resolve, some to cherish,
And others, the heart-wrenching stains.
The hours slip a...

Categories: backslapping, introspection,
Form: I do not know?

No's

...No’s


Talking to themselves in the third person
Detached, separate, 
ominous—a stilted nuance that does want to know  
Abrupt attention spans lashing out as the deadends foreclose
Cutting bac...

Categories: backslapping, political, urban
Form: Free verse