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The Charlatan

From the time that his two lips are parted
every comment is colored with lies
Every thought is a fantasy version
he creates to respond to the whys

He’s a conman in search of a swindle
intellectually clueless and crude
Riding high on his racist agenda
oozing out with each diatribe spewed

He is angry and jealous and petty
he’s a privileged product of

Categories: charlatan, america, political,
Form: Rhyme

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

Categories: charlatan, life,
Form: Free verse

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

Categories: charlatan, life,
Form: Free verse

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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)

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.

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

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

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

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,

Categories: charlatan, life
Form: Free verse