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Best Trumped Poems

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


Premium Member April's Been Trumped
April showers bring May flowers and weather breezy
This year April snow has brought us all to our kneesies
What the hell...
Something smells
Must be Trumpie, disturbing the...

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Categories: trumped, winter,
Form: Limerick



I Felt Trumped
There was a possibility of snow.
I looked out on a chilly white scene,
reflecting that extremes of weather are 
matched by extremes of political fronts.
	The season...

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Categories: trumped, november, political, snow, weather,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Through Blinders
The truth can’t be seen through blinders.
Eyes and ears covered with hatred.
The tongue’s ready-lash sidewinders,
twisting and spinning what’s sacred.

The truth, the fact, reality
masked - the...

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Categories: trumped, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Buster, Miss Kitty and Tom
Miss Kitty Katt was famous in the small hometown of mine
And Buster was the town dog -- never knew a boundary line.
Miss Kitty knew no...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trumped, cat, dog, dog, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Unholy Thunderous Domination
Destroy thine own brother in abject apathy
taking up arms 'midst conquering expectancy,
invoking howls of contemptible thunder 
neath skies' transparency beyond trepidation,
battles' plundering captures naught of...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trumped, allegory, conflict, corruption, fire,
Form: Free verse



The Road It Forks
In the breaking light of dawn,
in a photograph - we kiss.
It's to your inner light I'm drawn,
while cursing fate, and chances missed...
Wrapped in thought, and...

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Categories: trumped, absence, change, death, death
Form: Rhyme
Easy Mark
She knew they
were easy marks midst
her beguiling cunning
had it in spades,
they thought they had
the better hand,
stacked the deck in their wager,
til she bet them all
under...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trumped, allegory, hyperbole, satire,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Devil and the Poet
The devil in a moment of weakness did challenge a poet to a battle of words.

I HEAR YOU ARE AT THE TOP OF YOUR GAME
Said...

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Categories: trumped, allusion, class, confidence, conflict,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Naked and Raw
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

Shadows of leaves against migrants stripped of bark

Children hidden against a darkened sky
A cup of river foaming at the mouth

Suited men and...

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Categories: trumped, political,
Form: Free verse
A New Stage
Her innocence was gone
Maturity was her mystique 
And she wore it like makeup as in clinique

She smiled and looked through deep eyes
Seeing through the disguise
She...

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© Lara Wash  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trumped, dream, smile, truth,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Clouds Laughed
More of this, more of that
    Fifty dogs, a hundred cats
  Never satisfied, never enough
    A card sharp,...

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Categories: trumped, addiction, money, power,
Form: Rhyme
My Unique Line : Jsl -------A Day of Ones In the Sun---
Inundating radiant sunshine beams 
down on my face
fervently tracing crows feet 
nearing the frown I can taste

obliterating tear streaks 
transmitting them 
into the depths of...

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Categories: trumped, death, devotion, faith, family,
Form: Epitaph
Mug
I find it cautic as the glass separating the sphere from the cloud, 

the resignation of all trust avowed,

the interrogation of my soul via a...

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Categories: trumped, analogy, art, assonance, independence
Form: Verse
Premium Member Old Shoes
After your phone call I began to think
a lot about old shoes, you know the kind.
They're in the back corner, behind the sink,
or in the...

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Categories: trumped, life, love
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Circus Is In Town
Come join the unraveling circus
quite soon to be passing our way,
with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -
line up as they lead us...

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Categories: trumped, humor,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things