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Best Swindled Poems

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


Im a Stealer of Your Emotions and a Thief of Your Heart
I did my research on the victim at hand
I broke into your dreams and everything was at my command
I defrauded your thoughts and deprived your...

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Categories: swindled, love, emotions, love,
Form: Rhyme



No More This Time
The eyes of mild dawn on the body of sky
No nose to smell
No ear to hear
No tongue to speak and taste
No hand to touch
No leg...

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Categories: swindled, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ballad of 'soapy' Smith
Jefferson Randolph 'Soapy' Smith was the wiliest scoundrel in the west!
He was invited to leave numerous towns since he wasn't a welcome guest!
He swindled gullible...

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Categories: swindled, cowboy-western, funny
Form: Rhyme
Dirty Politics
The lines have been drawn 
The battle commenced
Each voter a pawn
Each party seems tensed.

They’ve argued the topics
All blurred the same lines
We muse on our prophets
Determine...

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Categories: swindled, allusion, betrayal, community, political,
Form: Quatrain
What Species of Humanity Are You?
What species of humanity are you?
Whatever kind you are, you don't worry us. 
According to hearsay
you were willing to lay your hands
on small items
deposited by...

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Categories: swindled, people, social,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Breath, In Blue
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"Breath, in Blue"



Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath...

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Categories: swindled, animal, bird, earth, fish,
Form: Free verse
Dirty Deeds
The serpent closed in on Eve at twilight
 A nebulous shape in the half light, fangs
 Hidden beneath his hood and she, her vision
 Blurred...

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Categories: swindled, funny, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a Pale Cringe
Mind-lashing words steep me deep into your olid casket of rancid oil,
soul, my blistering sore, gangrenous from your slow simmer to break-neck boil.
Pus green rupturing,...

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Categories: swindled, abuse, dark, hate, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
A Day In 365
He slept, but he feels swindled.
The only evidence of his sleep were the scant memories of his dreams.
Find himself today -not likely.
He pushes the keys...

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Categories: swindled, feelings, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Betrayal
So infantile you used to be,
so ample i loved thee.
upon request i granted,
at unorthodox times i created.

With pocket-sized in possession,
i snuffed out all oppression.
Freed you...

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Categories: swindled, addiction, adventure, allegory, angst,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Lynn's Fear
Lynn was swimming alone that morning in the warm pool,
the August sun sizzled on the ceramic tiles;
what a relief was the breeze from the palm...

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Categories: swindled, animal, books, fear, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
You Got Me
You got me in rifting feel twists
of bits not yet on my heart’s list.
You got me with your careless ways
that my ways had not come...

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Categories: swindled, anxiety, confusion, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Diddled
George is in his eighties and he’s seen it all before
He was born in the depression and was wounded in the war
He hadn’t been a...

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© Roy May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swindled, politicalold, money, old,
Form: I do not know?
Justice In Vogue
Blue collared of the swindled lot, cannot resent just brace
Credibility so easily slapped for rough hide when pieces put into place

Daybreak compels list of chores...

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Categories: swindled, anger, deep, poverty, power,
Form: Rhyme
Cacoethes Scribendi
Faint glimmers - The most radiant, - of hope
Have transcended such a lackluster horizon,
And words of wonder have yet,
But yet again and with assent,
Escaped my...

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Categories: swindled, imagination, love, may,
Form: Free verse

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