Best Flattery Poems

Rum bottle nods with sanction
on gentle sway
The old dog spat snuff juice
that took wind
Puffins drift below the haze 
Cape Flattery
is no tale

Chocolate on a white man,
the solitary wile
brackish breeze
wanders along impressions,
dints in a sea chiseled face
Heads pressed vigorously
to confine what coat resembles
beneath salted rags
Today he...

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I know what a poem
looks like.

I know how to make
my prose look like verse.

A little tuck here,
an indent there,

et voila! It’s verse! 
or worse ...

a pale imitation of seem.
(can I have some ice cream?)...

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Like a deadly drug, it makes us dance
Put our nose in the air, turn our backs .
Craven souls, want another chance.
Walking over friends, we call hacks?

On, yes we sign, love, but mean it not!
How many trophies can I win ~ I want!
More flattery, please, as...

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a sudden Bonanza viz sexual abuse among 
faux Green Acres within Mayberry RFD
now spells showtime for The Avengers, Batman 
and Robin to Get Smart
take to heart (what haint no new bob bing beast), 

those perpetrators to forsake their Good Times
yet, who determines what constitutes, and...

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Respect sets the stage for love’s serge.
Where, esteem and flattery merge.
Infatuation births passions.
Self worth overcomes excitements
And casts off mundane enticements.
Integrity stays emotions.
Respect sets the stage for love’s serge.
Where, esteem and flattery merge.
Hold firm to dreams of tomorrow.
Meet not emotional sorrow.
Infatuation births passions.
Integrity stays emotions.
Respect sets...

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Either I am naïve
Or seriously confused
Do they mean what they say?
Then why do I feel used?

Words of glorious praise
Superlatives so sweet
But then the real truth dawns
My work lacks rhyme and beat

I find it very strange
And not so very kind
To flatter just to please
And leave the...

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Narcissistic supply, a shot of honeyed words
How long before the sweet into sour turns?
Now the provider, then the provoker
We’re all victims, all a perpetrator

Honesty and dignity defiled, nailed to a cross
Self-serving lies and pretense a dice do toss
Their grabbing hands reach for the rags of...

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FLATTERY NOT KIND

play of Shakespeare
mad King Lear...fool —
a mere mirror

1/31/2019

Three daughters of King Lear. Cordelia would speak the truth. The other two killed the King with flattery winning an inheritance. They were traitorous thus a tragedy ensues....

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What do you think of me 
I wonder? 

I don't think of you at all

Don't flatter yourself....

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Flies buzz
    mosquitoes sting
  I try to whack them
    they both have wings

  Audiences roar
    Politicians sing
  The media attacks them
    They duck the arrows, the slings...

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I do not tolerate anyone who lies to me.
However, I do make an exception for flattery....

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Flattery lightens the mood 
and turns black roses pink, 
while hearts get carried away 
when love is expressed in ink.
Sweet words when acknowledged 
will make your mind blink, 
but a pure soul 
when duly ignored 
in sadness it will sink. 

Cheerful the heart would be...

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There was an old sauce chef from Killarney, 
    Whose Irish stew, was flavoured with blarney.
    While he quaffed bottles of hock,
    That was infused with shamrock.
    Which spiced up his special bouquet...

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Well done, she said. 
Smiling her biggest smile.
I have never seen anyone else wear it like that!
There are other ways to wear a skirt?
On a head? Or a shoulder perhaps?

You should buy it! She sang out gleefully.
It looks great! Another stranger told me.
Turn around! The...

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As the blazing king from far eastern horizons 
Glows and smiles on wee infant toils beneath, 
He's by man's ever-sprawling greeting praised, 
Basking in vast kudos by eyes and bared teeth.

The new sovereign savors every regal sign 
As he arcs past the virgin noon's latent...

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