Best Sham Poems


Premium Member The Sham of My Humanity

Evergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your poppy shed its last sepal 
releasing a scarlet sigh across sunset skies
whilst I placed a tender kiss upon your twilight. 

If but for your gossamer bloom in persimmon perfection,
I would...

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Categories: sham, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member My Shadow

This shadow that I see with my back turned to the sun. 
He represents me without fault and does not show my thinning hair 
or blemish on my skin that's there, or any hidden thing,
or any other secret thing that's hiding deep within.
My shadow is the perfect mimic, knowing what it means to show the...

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Categories: sham, allusion, christian, freedom, i
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member What I Am Not

I am not political,
 but I am poetical,
 as the first is a sham and the latter, 
a sincere "I am."
                                  ...

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Categories: sham, humorous, poets,
Form: Light Verse

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Sham Pillows

Wear the mask
Graffiti tunnel
Windy inside
Worse above

Pretty defaced message
Spray paint tired

Isolated crowd
Echoed shroud

Subjugated love
Tread enraged

Rotting beneath
Porcelain crown...

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Categories: sham, introspection, people,
Form: Free verse

When In Doubt, Change the Subject

Imagine a woman peeking out from the shower curtain…
   Accompanying captions on the side appear
   “I asked 100 women what shampoo they preferred?
   The #1 answer to my survey was certain, 
   How’n blankety blank did you get in here?”

Managed perception creates confusion;
the picture plays a neat...

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Categories: sham, 11th grade, flower, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

Sham Dealings

Good governance?
With all those killings?
And wish for potent alliance;
Then be a serf of sham dealings.

10.13.16...

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Categories: sham, language, leadership, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Grook


Sham of Poets

Is love all that old poets say?
Does it shake the earth 
like a great earthquake?
Is love really like a starry sky, 
a mountain high, are oceans deep?
Is love all wise men seek, or is it
more like a beach? 
One side water the other land,  
endless waves pounding sand?
Can you find love in the winter’s...

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Categories: sham, life, love, old, love,
Form: Rhyme

Sham

Deceitful lunatic fervent merchandise
Exist by ignorant foolish hypocrites lies
Retrieve the life by poisoned venom nymph
Spoke a sand of beach waiting the sea to take

Glad to be wicked at behind, hold it in a hand
Giggling inside, cry loud hard so one will see
Play an act of saint in the most persist time
Need all self to be...

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Categories: sham, people, social,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Sham the Leprechaun

Sham the Leprechaun
Sham the leprechaun went to a pub
For some tasty St Patrick's Day grub
Then danced jigs fantastic
Quite enthusiastic 
Did the splits, stuck like it, there's the rub.

The landlord said "Auld Sham's now a crock
And the silly old beggar's in shock"
Sadly, I'm not jokin'
His legs won't be closin'
He can't jig now, but boy, can Sham...

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Categories: sham, celebration, joy,
Form: Limerick

Nonpartisan Sham Bull

***** NONPARTISAN SHAM (BULL SH*T)...
SPECIAL NEWS BULLETIN updated *****

Innocuous, yet unhealthy threat looms across
(air/radio) telecommunications devices
where smart electronic devices enthrall
and decree they co-opt role bing boss
linkedin with plenti networks that criss cross
even primitive computers utilizing DOS
by George, which archaic code
once powered Mill on the Floss,
now long since covering over
arid (extra dry) landscape loess
with flora I...

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Categories: sham, america, confusion, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Like Rumi Loved Sham

I can love you like Rumi did to Sham, 
but, I'm very bad at setting examples
- I cannot marry you my daughter to keep you close to me.....................................

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Categories: sham, love,
Form: Senryu

Sham Fame, True Ache

Even as a seasoned, no,  jaded, 
pub folksinger,

      he still feels quite queasy about 
      night crowd temper;

               at times he's sincerely booed or 
     ...

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Categories: sham, on work and working
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Sham Rock Gift

Mac gave a ring of pearl to his sugar
She showed the ring to her dad, a jeweler
Termed it as false and fake
Returned quickly to Mac
Mac urged,” Gift of Sham Rock, refuse never”


March 26, 2014
Form: Limerick
Tenth Place win
Contest: Limericks on St. Patrick's day by Andrea...

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Categories: sham, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Treachery In Poetry

   
            * TREACHERY WARNING *



Why do some use their quill as a poisoned dart?
To think you can destrooy this poet's heart?
Gangs roam here, best not get in their way!
Will do all in their power,to humiliate and
make you pay.

And what of you,...

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Categories: sham, poets,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Clam Sham Debachcall

reference to the song
the person depicted
is quite vain,
she worsens when she's
needed to be best
that what is shared is to
be known to the world
listen the strings sound like
crickets....nearer and nearer
they come closer
ranging in pitch, there sounds
arranged to distort the true happenings.
Is he that lovest, the only one in
the woman's life, or is she
 deceitful and uncaring
only...

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Categories: sham, analogy, anger, anxiety, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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