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Charlatan Poems - Poems about Charlatan


Premium Member born a charlatan
born a charlatan he swindled people spent his life thieving and stealing never had a paying job quackster always had a gimmick get-rich-quick scheme took lots of honest guys’ money we cringed when he came to family reunions...

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Categories: charlatan, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Charlatan Or Just Honest
Was Sam a charlatan or was he inexplicably overly-honest? Weirdly half felt he was a charlatan A third felt he was inexplicably too honest The rest did not think of him at all Choosing to live their own lives...

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Categories: charlatan, life,
Form: Free verse



Charlatan of Verse
An empty voice with naught to say, a barrel hollow born To spout and spew, pontificate, a hairless sheep forlorn With lines recopied, often stole, released, his name to bear A charlatan of spoken verse —embezzled words to share (Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Categories: charlatan, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Charlatan
Hedonism echoed every pore of charlatan bleeding illusion mirage of grooves of magic rode hollow soul to the black hole....

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Categories: charlatan, dark, philosophy, poetry, senses,
Form: Tanka
Charlatan Summer
A hot air sauntered day, of early June scalding sun smeared in salty sweat, tears drenched a ground that afternoon on which you laid on ice, still in death. A cold charlatan summer, I'll never forget 6th May 2019...

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Categories: charlatan, death, sad, summer, sun,
Form: Quintain (English)



The Charlatan
The Charlatan In honesty young Sir, I have good reason to doubt, When you tell me “My word is my bond.” I fear your insistent asseveration is but a scam, With hope to take my chattels and abscond. You talk in a manner of self-confidence, It would be easy to succumb to your plan. A charlatan, a dishonest schemer, a cheat, Not...

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Categories: charlatan, corruption, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmopolitan Charlatan
gilded servant hyperbolic purveyor sculpting truth liberal spender filthy lucre licentious gain promoting freedom curtailing liberties accruing power crafting bills self-serving pork instills bankrupts nation's till...

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Categories: charlatan, political
Form: Senryu
Charlatan
O ! My heart sings the melodies of the crested waves. Songs of the seaward gale blowing from the north. The cold chill of the night may have come to pass: In the magic of the fire dance, at the breaking of dawn. Let the fragrance of humour play in those eyes. Imported midget of a soul,...

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Categories: charlatan, life
Form: Free verse

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