Get Your Premium Membership

Best Dishonest Poems

Below are the all-time best Dishonest poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dishonest poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Roses Are Red Collab-26
These Limericks were written by many different PS poets who are all remaining anonymous.  If you would like to add one of your own...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, anti bullying,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Mountebank
A dispenser of dishonest vice, a peddler of blatant lies,
In his unscrupulous realms, nobility of truth sadly dies,
Where righteous vibes of morality and decency agonize;
Where...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots Dialect
Thar was nae richt ae laddie sair
wha heft a cave 'side Galloway,
wi' nae jaiken he griftit dare
as he was nae tae lippen tae.

Ill-naitur'd  fishwife...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Signing Off
--Goodbye--To my Addiction-

The time has come to part,
I will leave many with broken hearts
If one day you call on me,
I'm sad to say I will...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, addiction, adventure, blue, farewell,
Form: Ballad
Losing My Self Worth
My self esteem never peaked
Mental abuse always leaked
From your foul and mean mouth
All my dignity just flew south
And never came back again
Your so proud that...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, baby, feelings, how i
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member - Drugs - Devil's Last Words
Pain and betrayal
                      ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, death, life, drug,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Ode To Occupy Wall Street
The middle class here can't be saved
When 0.001% act so depraved
Their wealth without end
These royals* still pretend
Did not come from us—their 
enslaved**


*The Royals: CEOs, Banksters,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, happiness, life, peace,
Form: Limerick
Amplified
Nothing is ever time wasted, 
just the interlude to the rest of the album. Soon it becomes nostalgia. To think you almost pressed the skip...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, black african american, black
Form: Free verse
A New Species
A new species 




Cunning cheating
and then fleeting,
Machiavellian many
crafting and contriving,
Deceptive dishonest 
frankly defrauding,
Slaughtering slaying
bloodshed of massacre,
Conflicts and combats
enmity and warfare,
Uncaring unfriendly
barbarous and brutal,
Savage sadistic
Cruel and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, angst,
Form: Free verse
Chained Heart
Chained Heart

A life buried from the past
living tormented present,
childhood innocence betrayed
darkness invades her freedom

Indescribable pain
Indefinite grief
Inevitable loneliness
lies, her blanket of misery

Kisses shared from dishonest lips
Promises...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, rain, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Sad Clown
I find myself having to act 
onstage, spotlight trained and fixed
The Sad Clown 
Laughing on the outside 
Crying on the inside 
Lying, pretending, dishonest 
its...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, sadsad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swap Meets Peace--
SWAP MEETS PEACE--

Now reciprocal, is just the thing;
Separation divides it just bring;
War mixed with peace hysterical
Is just the thing now reciprocal?

War in peace makes peace...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, analogy, confusion, inspiration, peace,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member This Poem Stinks So Badly It Doesn'T Deserve a Name
This poem stinks.

It doesn't rhyme 
It doesn't do anything 
It has a little alliteration

well...

it will have some

because that's the easiest poetic element to incorporate 
and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, art, funny, on writing
Form: Free verse
Some Friends Aren'T Forever
Some friends aren’t forever
This is as far as we go
We’ll exchange dishonest smiles
Ignoring what we both know
You’ll say “See you later”, one last time
You’ll give...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, desire, farewell, friend, friendship,
Form: I do not know?
The Lies That Exist In Her Peripheral Vision.
She held onto Saturday, with hands calloused and nails bitten

down

to the quick...her eyes saw sunlight and denied it's presence while she rocked, back and
forth, back...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dishonest, life, recovery from..., time,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things