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Best Swindler Poems

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Premium Member Mistakes - Am I a Fake
What to look for?
Where do errors lie?
Are they in the eye of the beholder
or do they lie?

I believe I’m a poet,
a prophet of paraphrase,
a swindler...

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Categories: swindler, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dreams of Bittersweet Glory
He dreamt of a ladder reaching heaven
   angels ascending, descending all night
Sensing a Divine Presence in the place
   Beth El -...

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Categories: swindler, angel, bible, blessing, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Mirror, Mirror
Frustrated
Hurt 
Confused
Unsure
Unable to see who I am
Unable to see you for what you are
What you’ve become
Yet I love you
But the longer I stay
The longer my...

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Categories: swindler, loss, love, sad, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mountebank
A dispenser of dishonest vice, a peddler of blatant lies,
In his unscrupulous realms, nobility of truth sadly dies,
Where righteous vibes of morality and decency agonize;
Where...

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Categories: swindler, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nightmare
Dreams are so much a part of us
and yet not a part of us. 
I've often wondered about dreams.
What do they mean,
all those dreams
that flash...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swindler, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member The Hero
The virtue was being wronged, depicted his woeful tale of prey and innocence. 
Gradually people gathered to listen to the poignant rhetoric. 
blown away by...

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Categories: swindler, betrayal, character, crazy, devotion,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part Two
Prizes for Ultimate Sacrifices                     ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swindler, howl, inspirational, metaphor, satire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Why Don'T You Leo
Death isn’t that significant, is it?
just like life is nothing peculiar.

The importance, however, is that life is given 
to an individual only once and cannot...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swindler, death of a friend,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member The Gravediggers - a Sequel
Mr. Butcher, the undertaker, did a capital job of laying old Cheatum out,
Though he had to cram him in the casket since the senator was...

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Categories: swindler, funny, words, old, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
The Future
As she showed her palm to the Seer
The air was thick with dread.
The girl's eyes were filled with her fear,
when her palm was read.

In a...

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© Del Phil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swindler, girl, miracle, girl, old,
Form: Ballad
Escape From the Pandemic
It's dead December, we're getting nowhere, ready
for vaccine like a starving tribe shoved from behind
under the bridge, kicking some dust along the way.
A hand holds...

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Categories: swindler, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
An Immoral Saint
I think you are thinking how i could not make a big cut 
And become a power wielding politicians though 
I have a blade like...

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Categories: swindler, dark, mum, sad, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Edwardo Badia 1856-1914
Edwardo Badia
1856-1914

That low bred confidence man!
That snooking swindler who took me for a fool.
“Hey Gregg, you thief!
You owe me still, even as I rot here,
Regrettably...

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Categories: swindler, death,
Form: Epitaph
Oskar
I’m watching a movie about Oskar Schindler
Who I assumed was just another profligate swindler
A hedonistic man if ever there was one
Great in business but involved...

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Categories: swindler, holocaust,
Form: I do not know?
Lisbon
Empty streets I walk  and walk
Aimed at the lonely riverside
There's nothing to think of, just stand there
Just stand there and quietly stare
At the water...

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© Rita Faria  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swindler, lifelonely, time,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs