Best Trickster Poems

Trickster Extraordinaire 
 
Eulen und Meerkatzen
Till Eulenspiegel
Medieval Clown
Fooled them all.

Mirrored people’s vanity
Physiognomonic 
Judge of humanity
Wasn’t hard at all.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
June 8, 2016 (Double Dactyl)...

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Surely there is a sly trickster in the sky tonight
      He’s pulled a magic cape slowly across the moon
      As there could never be scientific explanation
      For the golden beauty...

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THE TRICKSTER


Oh, mighty time,
What a trickster you are,
Presenting, each year, 
Your old wrinkled face, 
As new!


© Demetrios Trifiatis
05 JANUARY 2014...

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From what time or place does this White bird hail?
With clapping thunder and striking lightning upon shale.
A feeling of dread before a feeling of fear,
knowing but wishing the creature wasn't near.
Creaking with sneaking does the wooden floor quake,
slowly and surely, the walls begin to shake.
A...

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We recently lost my Grandpa
It took a toll on my Grandma
	she took to the bottle
	an unstable waddle
tripped on him hiding – such chutzpah!...

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Only God could convince the atheists 
  that He does not exist,
  and prove them wrong.......

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Whispering winds upon futures foretold,
another adventure for the bird-drake behold.
Arrival at the village, covered and concealed,
the boy had to be silent, or his secret would be revealed.
Out of the torchlight, behind the wall,
The basket in hand, under the fence, he'd crawl.
His creature would squeel and...

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January is a fascinating gateway to cool hand crispy, 
Fooling us yearly. 
Appearing overnight, as we dream of warmer things.
Covers the earth with her glistening white beauty, 
Knows we will be mesmerized by her dazzlingness.
Enthralled by her crispy, clean looking  white-sheet pureness

We wake up...

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The master trickster is alive and well on this earth,
He has been way before our births.
He was cast out and thrown to this world, with his fallen angels.
He looked to humanity really great but, always having an angle.

The Lord our Father cast him to this...

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The spider the first to deceive                                       ...

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I thought I'd play a trick 
on my kid sister Brooke,
she said that it was sick
and stuck me up on this hook - 
that's why I have such a sad look.

My trick was funny , so I thought - 
I ate her dish of ice...

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Missing him..
I filled my time with other things,
But nothing helped keep him off my mind. 

The Night:
Filled with two false poetic promises left me disappointed. 

In these two years I have lost all “friends” I thought had loved me. 
Instead, 
They abandoned me, and left...

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Saffron  robes, long hair
A shoulder bag and a pouch
Of dirty dust which
He calls sacred is all that
Into this cheat’s making goes

A woman lonely
And worried is his sure prey
Gold bangles of hers
Are  his,  as she falls to  his 
Talk of foolproof ...

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Standing silent, alone without a friend,
vigilant in the face of wind and rain;
a scarecrow trickster is playing pretend,
     in his hand-me-down clothes, ragged and plain.
     The whispers of the crop
     berates silence nonstop,
...

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Devastating was it's loss and far was it's fall,
From fearsome roar, now but a weakened call.
Once stained with crimson of it's chosen prey,
now the white plumage whithers with grey.
Lofty was it's existence over mortal men
but a hunter had risen to cast down there and then.
A...

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