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Conmen Poems - Poems about Conmen

Premium MemberSamantha learned new ways in the big city

...Samantha was a small-town girl
Taught to never ignore or turn her back on anyone
She developed a thicker skin in the city
Where she had to learn to turn her back and ignore
It was not her norm, b...
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Categories: conmen, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBird Flew

...
Conmen squawk,
‘Fear our Bird Flu,
And that we know
What’s best for you.’
So bird flew.

For bird knew
That what men do
Is nothing new.
Open minds are few,
Thinking’s voodoo;
And what’s ...
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Categories: conmen, bird, freedom, grief,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberSAMHUINN

...SAMHUINN
Wi samhuin fast approaching
When people start tae dread,
The gates of hell burst open
For the festival of the dead.

Bane shanks lifts his scythe
And scrieves his words in fire,
Welc...
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Categories: conmen, fantasy, fear, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberScum Buckets

...Scum Buckets
(For a contest)

Can American’s be
As a whole, like a tree
With branches far and wide

That is constantly tapped
Collecting green sap
As in taxes from our thin hide

Out of ha...
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Categories: conmen, abuse, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUgly American

...The ugly American likes waving the flag.
And dissing what he doesn’t understand.
He’s scared of change and threatened by intelligence,
But says he’s only honoring his clan.

The ugly American ca...
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Categories: conmen, allegory, america, brother, political,
Form: Blank verse



Premium MemberSolstice Blues

...'Twas the night before tomorrow
And the morning after that.
Father Time passed by discretely, 
Didn’t even tip his hat.
The calendars of bygone years
Stacked up to nothing much.
The women I’d b...
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Categories: conmen, allegory, betrayal, christmas,
Form: Burlesque

Thanksgiving 2021

...dear god, we thank you for our good fortune, 
and ask your blessing on this food and our love 
and our uh ... our ... uh ...
and by the way, god, we are all falling apart.
the center is shifting ...
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Categories: conmen, america, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Honest Relationship

...Hello flower of the land,
Your beauty  will never be like dry hand,
Your beauty is spreading like ocean  sand,
Your beauty does not need any single fund,

Be carefully with dishonest men,
They ...
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Categories: conmen, love,
Form: Rhyme

Honest Relationship

...Hello flower of the land,
Your beauty  will never be like dry hand,
Your beauty is spreading like ocean  sand,
Your beauty does not need any single fund,

Be carefully with dishonest men,
They ...
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Categories: conmen, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThreads of Wispy Air

...On threads of wispy air,
in breathy undertones of political wind,
I can hear the quiet catastrophe,
the quiet ruination of our commonwealth.
I can hear the sleepy madness, turned avalanche
betwe...
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Categories: conmen, america, corruption, culture, hate,
Form: Didactic

The Psychriatist

...the psychiatrist 

I saw him on the you-tube he was elegant and forceful
and worth listening too although I found his views unbending 
and he brokered no opposition.
His view on marriage was ide...
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Categories: conmen, celebrity, divorce,
Form: Blank verse

A Letter To Mandela

...Dear Papa,
Sad, my siblings and I,
Never got to meet with you;
You left us too soon,
Out in this cold, dark and unjust climate;
Out in the deep ghettos and jungles;
In the hands of conmen and w...
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Categories: conmen, africa, hope, poetry,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberThe Tiger King

...Inspired by the incongruous
Joe exotic Documentary 


You think because I smile I’m
happy, well it’s one big facade,
Strut round my insane kingdom,
driving all and sundry mad,
Like the tigers...
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Categories: conmen, allusion, animal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Covid-19 Changes the World

...For the better or for worse?
It spreads like a plague, deadly and swift. 
Fear is unleashed and fear is thick.
Stores are shopped clean; limits are placed on items we need.
Workers are laid off, ...
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Categories: conmen, anxiety, community, health, society,
Form: Rhyme

Paradigm Shift

...I’m adjusting fixed positions
On opinions and deductions
From now on breathing other airs
I have a stack of fresh instructions

I let go of once held handle bars
Veering off from straight line ...
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Categories: conmen, confidence, corruption,
Form: Couplet

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