Best Flimflam Poems
Black Magic Hearts...What underhanded monkey business
razzle-dazzle bull is this?
Whose double-crossing, flimflam scam,
debauchery or hocus sham
is wheeling dealing in romance,
putting lovers in a trance?
A......
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Categories:
flimflam, funny, love
Form:
Couplet
Or Ultimately We All Fall...She was gooey like maple syrup
& marshmallow s'mores,
stronger than a mountain lion
protecting her cubs,
wore prescription rose-tinted
sunglasses with GPS,
she'd bee......
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Categories:
flimflam, allegory, analogy, hyperbole, poetess,
Form:
Free verse
Empirical Deceitfulness...
Written: December 29, 2023
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Mahogany motionless shadows
cast by deceitful sun,
a caterwaul unravels,
coeval betrayal
voice beckon......
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Categories:
flimflam, analogy, bereavement, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Sour Grapes...The teen’s face beamed with pride in his new car,
But Bestie exploded in jealous rage.
His reluctant congrats, a lame sidebar;
“I’d simply rather walk”— framed his outrage.
On Friday she failed......
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Categories:
flimflam, anxiety, appreciation, conflict, courage,
Form:
Sonnet
The White Elephant...Attention all voters
Who love a great scam
The Republican Party
Now welcomes flimflam
Republican healthcare
Fell apart at the seams
Through an absence of facts
And a surplus of dreams
Rep......
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Categories:
flimflam, corruption, culture, health, leadership,
Form:
Verse
Slam Poetry Is For Orangutangs!...The Orangutang:
There once was a traditionalist,
Who in his ignorance had missed
The beauty of youth,
The ever-changing truth!
He's a typical fundamentalist!
The Traditionalist:
"I can......
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Categories:
flimflam, confusion, funny, on writing
Form:
Limerick
The Reality Zone...His parents didn't condone the viewing of
The Twilight Zone. A bunch of silly nonsense,
his dad would claim. What was Rod Serling's aim,
writing and directing such fantasy induced flimflam?
......
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Categories:
flimflam, allegory, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Garbage...An orange and tan
orangutan
with origins
that span
to Pakistan
orates flimflam
o'er an ornate
garbage can
ordained an oracle
by an ordered clan
to plant a plan
for their ordure
that orna......
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Categories:
flimflam, silly,
Form:
Alliteration
It Has Taken Time...
It has taken me time to get to here,
a journey of pieces, fragments I grasp;
I have climbed up life's mountain- every tier !
Good morals, values and wisdom - I clasp,
I now have......
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Categories:
flimflam, introspection, life,
Form:
Terza Rima
Revelation's Optical Illusion...Quintessentially phantasmagoric,
her cobalt skies' chimerical fancy
whores itself out for poetry,
sumptuously cached 'tween
a revelation's optical illusion
enchanting white knights ......
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Categories:
flimflam, allusion, analogy, conflict, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
Propaganda...It is not real to think that I came here to be no one.
I came to sing, dance, and entertain not to be with any man.
If I should find one along the way, I will love him every day until he changes.
Wh......
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Categories:
flimflam, character, crazy, culture, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Need An Excuse...Need An Excuse
Why would I ever need an excuse
When I wanted to pursue a ruse
Making love followed by romance
At barroom while we would dance.
Did dance around like on a carrousel
Somethin......
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Categories:
flimflam, encouraging,
Form:
Couplet
Google Doodle Doo...while soaring the heavenly heights
many hours ago
every major metropolis appeared
about a million miles below
the rarefied atmosphere
ideal composition beckoned angels,
wh......
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Categories:
flimflam, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Ts1989...Crazily addicted in this type of jam!
Listening to music is like my one heavy slam.
Have you ever heard the songs of 1989?
Feels like I’m at my young cool age of nine.
Listen to Taylor Swift’s ......
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Categories:
flimflam, addiction,
Form:
A Harlem Hoodlum Albeit Respectable...A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)...
ready for night time in bedlam
after swallowing me favorite dram,
cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam.
Whiling away his time playing solitaire.........
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Categories:
flimflam, anger, city, corruption, education,
Form:
Rhyme