Best Sycophants Poems


Premium Member Just Saying My Piece
...When Poetry Soup becomes infested with partisan rubbish, 
It will be difficult for liberal, creative poets, like me to flourish 
Who seek a safe place away from the maddening ignorance 
Of those p......

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Categories: sycophants, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Reprobate of a Draconian State
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There's tyranny taking place in the United States.
Fear of it becoming a Draconian State is not just a threat.
It's reality, thanks to the presidential powermonger
whose hunger and thirst for ......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sycophants, america, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Unmasked
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Inside a boisterous tavern,
a-light with drunken gaiety
of spilled ribald laughter,
he quietly sits alone ...
gently cradling his mead darkly
Brooding thoughts of past paid coverings
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Categories: sycophants, dark, death, judgement, wisdom,
Form: Narrative

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Premium Member Remarks and Barks
...Soft as quicksand is the ground beneath the feet
   of those whose words attempt to rile and defeat

Thrown stones cause few ripples before they sink
   Crass sycophants fill their pens with deli......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sycophants, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Child's Only Christmas
...On Christmas Eve an Angel
    felt the sorrow of the Lord.
Who wept for the many Children
   sentenced to perish by the sword.
What alarm and consternation
    could sweep their lives away?
By ......

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Categories: sycophants, angel, christmas, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Minds Morally Blind and Unkind
...Deceit and duplicity, vengeance and vanity
Exploit our weaknesses and dissipate our souls’ strength
As arrogance cockroaches multiply their insanity
We diminish the strength of our faith 

The m......

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Categories: sycophants, poems,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Black Labels
...she reaches behind the smokescreen

of her sunken eyed curtain veils

films of tears void of translucence

stoke reminiscent ashes that trace

another blinding thick-skinned defeat

hidden ......

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Categories: sycophants, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Golden Shovels
...Each of them had one
A golden shovel
To sweep away the detritus
Of life’s lingering keepsakes
Scratching the gold-plated spears
Dodging deaths deadline 
Struggling to be remembered

Ecologica......

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Categories: sycophants, city, corruption, money, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once Upon a Time
...Livelihood is in clothing but deprived of its sleeves
sustenance never recognizing a path
to stability and regularity
basic needs tripling into an extended family.
Yet I survived.

Some......

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Categories: sycophants, character, cheer up, destiny,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Gardening Expose
...With these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I rel......

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Categories: sycophants, garden, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 1
...Don't you think that this title is darkly divine?
But, of course, there will have to be weirdness that’s funny,
Though my nightmares are many and have complex arcs
There’s some risk here I might h......

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Categories: sycophants, anxiety, crazy, fun, funeral,
Form: Quatrain
Primary Lesson - End of Class
...Here is a lesson, a tortuous tale for your next-of-kin,
About a political hack we'll call the Bigly Pumpkin.
It's a bit like star wars, he is more an older Anakin,
Who fooled the Nation even thoug......

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© Mick Free  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sycophants, america, patriotic, political, presidents
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Land Part 7
...While midnight bats are gnawing gnats and feasting free unseen,

a toddler’s fed from garbage sheds an elegant cuisine.

Along the trails in distant dales a lonesome wolverine

feigns appetite ......

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Categories: sycophants, cute, fantasy, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Political Terrorism
...Life is a combination of different strata and classes
with the upper classes feeding on the states of the lower
which is the usual, displayed in most societies and cultures
and such a web ......

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Categories: sycophants, adventure, africa, america, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Strict Machine
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"The Strict Machine"




Take a note 
pick up your sharpened quill
tap dance your screen
your mind like 
a Magpie's beak 
a Silent Epiphany
O......

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Categories: sycophants, freedom, psychological, symbolism, truth,
Form: Free verse
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