Perspective Poem
...Every math equation
Every sentence
I take the brunt of your taps
Every mistake
Every flimflam
I have to fix it
CRACK
I am once again dull…
Head first right into the machine
Where my face g...
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Categories:
flimflam, 12th grade, analogy, homework,
Form: Free verse
sloppy flimflam man
...sloppy flimflam man
selling inferior wares
hes run out of town...
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Categories:
flimflam, life,
Form: Senryu
Empirical Deceitfulness
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Written: December 29, 2023
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Mahogany motionless shadows
cast by deceitful sun,
a caterwaul unravels,
coeval betrayal
voice beckon...
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Categories:
flimflam, analogy, bereavement, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse
Once
...there was a man
a small man
-a little man
-a tiny man
a small little tiny
man who found a-tiny-small-little-something
he pulled on it -and realized it had give
he pulled -this stretchy-l...
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Categories:
flimflam, conflict, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44
...Booby trapped within apartment unit b44
Circa August 18th, 2021
three bajillion years ago to date,
nevertheless I count blessings,
so please do not hashtag me
as worse than an ingrate
or o...
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Categories:
flimflam, adventure, anxiety, confusion, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
If Its Free, I Block It
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If It’s Free, I Block It
By: Miracle Man
7/23/2023
Technology is making life one big scam,
The prizes they say I’ve won are all flimflam.
They’re on the truck needing info to deliv...
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Categories:
flimflam, how i feel, technology,
Form: Couplet
Thank You For Your Servitude
...The powers,
the powers 'that be'
wish to thank you
for your on-going servitude,
for your compliance,
conformity,
acquiescence,
gullibility,
subservience,
apathy,
disinterest,
inattention,
...
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Categories:
flimflam, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Harlem Hoodlum Albeit Respectable
...A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)...
ready for night time in bedlam
after swallowing me favorite dram,
cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam.
Whiling away his time playing solitaire......
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Categories:
flimflam, anger, city, corruption, education,
Form: Rhyme
Long Live Laver
...A pro all the way
from serve to volley
Rod Laver's not one, but two, calendar grand slams
buried under pseudo-tennis-intellectual flimflam...
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Categories:
flimflam, funeral, memory, sports, star,
Form: Clerihew
It Has Taken Time
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It has taken me time to get to here,
a journey of pieces, fragments I grasp;
I have climbed up life's mountain- every tier !
Good morals, values and wisdom - I clasp,
I now have...
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Categories:
flimflam, introspection, life,
Form: Terza Rima
Za Plan Za Plan
...Donald Trump is a flimflam man
Trump and Pence have an healthcare plan
Its in a nutshell
So Nancy can't tell
The thumbnail is an also-ran...
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Categories:
flimflam, health, political,
Form: Limerick
Morbid Fascination Mine As Covid-19 Pandemic
...Morbid fascination (mine) as covid-19 pandemic...
foments rampant monopoly on bedlam
Wreaking ball (his stick) havoc (think ostensible
civil war scale not seen since Vietnam),
whereby microorga...
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Categories:
flimflam, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Convenience Afforded Microwave
...Especially one courteously wrapped ably
anonymously gifted to
an aspiring gourmet Chef Boyardee
i.e. not surprisingly... revealing mystery
person none other than...
yepper namely me.
Moost an...
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Categories:
flimflam, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Cheers For the New Year
...Cheers For The New Year
We cheer for the New Year at twelve a.m.
Twirling noisemakers and blowing ticklers
And make resolutions we plan to engram.
And party away wearing silly tams
Si...
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Categories:
flimflam, new year, new years
Form: Villanelle
Fly In the Ointment
...Donald Trump is a flimflam man
You look where he points so he can
Give Russia an edge
The Ukraine the hedge
Whilst Kurds get the Turkey trepan!...
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Categories:
flimflam, political,
Form: Limerick
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