Flimflam Poems

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

Premium Membersloppy flimflam man

...sloppy flimflam man
selling inferior wares
hes run out of town...
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Categories: flimflam, life,
Form: Senryu


Premium MemberEmpirical 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

Premium MemberOnce

...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


Premium MemberIf 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

Premium MemberLong 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

Premium MemberIt 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

Premium MemberCheers 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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