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Best Shellacking Poems

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Trump Receive a Shellacking
Trump should receive a shellacking,
From what he said with wise cracking;
Irritated and,
Has satiated;
Never will receive any of my backing....

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shellacking, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Lackluster Shellacking
Feeling sluggish, shelled.
Lithely lingering in the dust and grime.
Palette grey and dull, devoid of crisp bright hues,
Brushes all furry, frayed, blunt, incapable of fine detail.
Apathy...

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Categories: shellacking, feelings, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black and White
In the visiting room evening's ebony is shellacking everything.
He sits across from me at the sable-shaded table, in shades,
pours black coffee pungent as the Gauloises...

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Categories: shellacking, life, murder, prison,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time To Discard Baggage
TIME TO DISCARD BAGGAGE

WOW! she took a shellacking
from the words that grown girl spoke
after clearing up the air
loving relationship hope.

Didn’t like all the things she...

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Categories: shellacking, family, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Streets of Summer Dreams
It is hot out here 
Don't tell me about a sweater
I think the sun is broken
Walking down the same asphalt sidewalks

Still the same faults as...

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Categories: shellacking, car, happy, summer, sunshine,
Form: Alliteration



The Christmas Tree
Wait a minute, is it already Christmas again
Seems I just took down the lights and the tree
Is there no rest for the downtrodden and weary
This...

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Categories: shellacking, christmas, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Christmas Tree
Wait a minute, is it already Christmas again
Seems I just took down the lights and the tree
Is there no rest for the downtrodden and weary
This...

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Categories: shellacking, christmas, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Unsung Hero
Trite foot soldier status lacking
Pedigree earned by under stress not cracking
Anonymous ward of the state with little backing
Nameless face sent into the infernal abyss hacking
On...

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Categories: shellacking, dedicationsoldier,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tortoise and Haradactyl
Rabbit brags
crazily;
Tortoise plods
lazily.

Rabbit gets
sleepy, see.
Tortoise wins
Easily.

Work ethic
is lacking;
Rabbit gets
shellacking.

Relentless,
forward, there.
T’s out front
by a hare.

Nonfiction
or fable?
Decide if
you’re able.

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Using more dactyls seems a good match for the...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shellacking, adventure, animal,
Form: Other
Premium Member Farm Girls
I love to go swimming
With bowlegged women
The kind comes from riding
Down here at the farm.

There’s cycles of motion
They’ll cause a commotion
The Steve Miller Band says
Will...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shellacking, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life's Patina
You've lost some hair and maybe put on a few pounds
and perhaps you're not so spry anymore.
        ...

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Categories: shellacking, 12th grade, age, depression,
Form: Verse
Will Not Receive My Backing
Will Not Receive My Backing

Trump will not receive any of my backing,
While from him are receiving a shellacking;
Total trouble make;
Being breath taker;
Sailboat turned over after...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shellacking, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Donald Trump is Back
   Those who hate him 
     are on the attack
   That vile, vulgar specimen
   ...

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Categories: shellacking, america, nostalgia, political, repetition,
Form: Rhyme
Sort of Did Stammer and Clammer
sort of did stammer
on Trump Train we did clammer
him in head with hammer

my hair had been wet
one more vaccine I must get
then the quota will...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shellacking, allegory, analogy,
Form: Senryu

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