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PROMISING
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Line Gauthier
| Senryu |
charlatan, betrayal, character, games, truth,
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Two Words - Redux One
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Gary Bateman
| Free verse |
charlatan, assonance, history, imagery, metaphor,
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A Russian Mystic Outre
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Gary Bateman
| Double Dactyl |
charlatan, allegory, allusion, crazy, dark,
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Nothing Left To Lose
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Christopher Goss
| Free verse |
charlatan, conflict, depression, how i
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Carol Connell and William Shakespeare's Collaborative Rant Against The Devil
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Carol Connell
| Rhyme |
charlatan, angel, anger, bible, evil,
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Self Depreciating
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Christopher Flaherty
| Free verse |
charlatan, future,
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Twist The Art
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Christopher Goss
| Free verse |
charlatan, celebration, cool, dance, introspection,
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The Charlatan
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Kevin Shaw
| Rhyme |
charlatan, corruption, trust,
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Between Wavy Lines
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Gregory R Barden
| Free verse |
charlatan, beauty, metaphor, sensual, sexy,
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Faceless Book MZ Slam Data Stealing
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Christopher Flaherty
| Free verse |
charlatan, slam,
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Puppets Of Hell On The Stage Of Life
by Carol Connell
Upon the stage of life
there are many puppets of hell.
Their bright costumes conceal sin and strife
and beneath them deception does dwell.
Their lines are a demon...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
charlatan, analogy, bullying, evil, imagery,
The Pied Piper from New York City - Part One
by Gary Bateman
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man,...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
charlatan, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption,
INTEGRITY IS COMING TO AMERICA, SOON
by norberto franco cisneros
Once the dream was to make America the shining light of the world
a caring and compassionate country with opportunities for all
but America has become...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
charlatan, america, integrity, loss, political,
A Journeyman
by Kai Michael Neumann
A Journeyman
Prologue and Epitaph:
I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone
1) Megalomaniac...
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Dramatic monologue |
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Categories:
charlatan, life,
Diphthong Souls
by John Anderson
Diphthong you fake, you charlatan.
'ph' and 'th' be not vowels!
What strange bed fellows in ensemble
A Greek tongue twister to boot!
But I love you, all the...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
charlatan, words,
Edison's Hammer
by Michael Coy
(William Hammer, Thomas Alva Edison's assistant,
has reached the end of his tolerance. His boss is
planning to electrocute an elephant for a publicity
stunt.)
If he goes...
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Iambic Pentameter |
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Categories:
charlatan,
Between the Wavy Lines
by Gregory R Barden
Qu'ry this: a chivalrous charlatan, I,
Dareth feign to pen thy prop'r aspect?
Aye, f'r thy legitimate contours art yet
Ov'rwhelmingly stagg'ring to the gazeth,
And if beheld by...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
charlatan, love, metaphor, passion, romantic,
Time
by Roy Smith
That ever elusive continuum
Which one thinks shall be, is suddenly now, and then has been already
Consistent, precise, and measurable
Beware the charlatan
Who sprints and creeps with...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
charlatan, time,
One Day You Will Be Mine
by Patrick DaCosta
One Day You Will Be Mine
My heart broke when the door closed; the sound of the click broke...
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I do not know? |
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charlatan, heartbreak, hurt,
Jwhwlao Dwimalu
by Ronjoy Brahma
O brother dwimalu!
Why did you bring the white elephant?
In the country of misfortune bodo race!
One of the next one to the king
Country attack in the...
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Elegy |
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Categories:
charlatan, mythology, sad,
Life Mistake Were Many In Silence Wrung
by Eve Roper
Life Mistake Were Many In Silence Wrung
I got married a child and far to young
With no life experience, seasons stung
Charlatan future sticking out its tongue
Pretending...
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Monorhyme |
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Categories:
charlatan, abuse, freedom, metaphor, son,
SAD DIZAIN
by Kim Rodrigues
cancer knocked on the door of my cousin.
crimson to pale. blankets - burrowed beneath.
should she hide from this battle?...
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Dizain |
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Categories:
charlatan, cancer,
Stop Slithering
by Michael Zavaletta
Spare me the sentiment,
You race-baiting charlatan,
Your "charity" reeks of contempt,
And your action for so-called "social justice" is mired in incompetence,
But upon this ID I issue...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
charlatan, america, society,
The Test by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T Wignesan
by T Wignesan
The Test by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
What’s an antipoet:
a trader in urns and coffins?
a priest who does not believe in anything?
a general who...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
charlatan, imagery, imagination, poetry, poets,
Georg Cantor Chasing infinity I must
by ruta skendeliene
Georg Cantor. Chasing infinity. I must!
He was a very lonely man
Tortured by desire to understand
The world and the God’s mind
Like a fearless seasoned sailor...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
charlatan, anxiety, death, dedication, deep,
ROBBER OF THE HOOD
by Dan Cwiak
When I
was just
starting my
adult life, first
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Free verse |
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Categories:
charlatan, age, betrayal, career, growing
You Loved I
by Michael Zavaletta
Without you time falls into disrepair broken and forlorn,
I can feel my body wake in the morn,
Yet I lay writhing on the floor,
Day and night...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
charlatan, anger, i love you,
Such a nice guy
by Ivo Cosentino
Wesley Melvin Buchan, also known as Wesmechan,
was a pusillanimous and a good-for-nothing,
although some people consider him a charlatan,
this scoundrel's office runs like...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
charlatan, allegory, anxiety, business, simple,
Rendevous without Exit
by Keith O.J. Hunt
The quiet heart departs rudimentary tasks, idle-fast in what it asks
content as a former-charlatan, like leaf and bough,
tree, root...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
charlatan, memory, metaphor, recovery from,
The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part Two
by Gary Bateman
THE NOCTURNAL DELIGHT OF MEPHISTOPHELES - PART TWO (CONTINUED):
The stage was now set . . . from nowhere, Mephisto handed me a missive in
Medieval...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
charlatan, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,