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Best Sycophancy Poems

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

Premium Member SYCOPHANCY
SYCOPHANCY

Miss Sweet, a fine lady’s nickname,
was a healthy woman.
Miss Sweet was God sent.
Ortha Mae was her daughter.
She was refinement to her mother.

Miss Sweet loved gospel...

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Categories: sycophancy, sweet, thank you, thanks, tribute, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

Sycophancy
Sycophancy

He waved at us
Such a good fellow
Or so we thought
Now the eclipse is gone

And faces now brighter
We saw trails
He was the one
He that took our...

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Categories: sycophancy, brother, people, satire,
Form: Sonnet
The art of sycophancy
Most people unabashedly cultivate this art
For rising on the ladder of progression fast
Never mind debasing oneself in the court
And act audaciously putting aside all doubt.

They...

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Categories: sycophancy, crazy,
Form: Free verse
SYCOPHANCY
Sycophancy they celebrate
Insolvency they worship
Profligacy they cherish
Grandiosity they love.

Impudence remains a force 
To reckon with 
Indolence rewarded 
Amidst pomp and pageantry
Intolerance to dissent
Views became the...

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Categories: sycophancy, education, life, people,
Form: I do not know?
I AM A SYCOPHANT
I AM A SYCOPHANT
I love eye-service
A great deal of sycophancy
I am big on people-pleasing
I do eye-service 
To Him whose eyes are ever on me

I love...

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Categories: sycophancy, dedication, funny, passion, religion, love,
Form: Dramatic monologue

MONEY,THE BLACKGOLD
Money,in search of you
Traitor appears
Either to kill
Or denigrate

The trustworthy gets less
The sycophant demagogically gets more
The former becomes worse
The later becomes blessed

Money, your raison d'etre
Misinterpreted by...

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Categories: sycophancy, adventure, allusion, anger, black african american,
Form: Dramatic monologue
Premium Member SOCIETY - me arse
Society – me arse


Society, the straight jacket of “socially” acceptable mores,
condemning all to a “one size fits all living coffin.
Social “mores”, cultural cudgels of “independent...

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Categories: sycophancy, society,
Form: Free verse
AS THEY LEAVE (1)
As they leave,
They leave for us 
Calabash full of sorrow and agony
They leave for men a plate of frustration
And desperation.

As they leave
They leave for women...

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Categories: sycophancy, adventure, allegory, anniversary, education, funny, history,
Form: I do not know?
You Can Run But You Can't Hide From Yourself
Lie low when convenience calls
Stick out your neck at optimum moments
To climb and scale high social walls
As you swerve away from avoidable torments

To shunt aside...

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Categories: sycophancy, poems,
Form: Free verse
My vision
Twenty years later
I shall be called a writer
Not a waiter
I shall be called a freedom fighter
A writer who has fought bad leadership
For the good of...

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Categories: sycophancy, celebrity, future,
Form: Free verse
Amaranthine Skeletons
Therein, laying dormant,
    veils of darkly reposed
          secrecy 'neath
    ...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sycophancy, allegory, dark, death, sea, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Shrouded Bluffs
Herein, laying dormant,
    veils of reposed
      secrecy 'neath
       foamy seascapes' 
...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sycophancy, conflict, dark, death, mystery, sea, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Free flying thoughts of Heart
Writer is thought to be wealthy and shrewd in words
Is it however necessary to create an intricate prose?
Then we talk about free flowing thoughts of...

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Categories: sycophancy, imagination, inspirational, peacewords, flying,
Form: Free verse