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Grifter Poems - Poems about Grifter
A Moonlight Grifter
A grifter's mind with a poet's heart, he wrote words that could tear you apart. To capture moonlight, he made his goal, but his songs came from cracks in his soul. Sometimes he wrote of a sordid life, of keeping his thoughts in words of strife. Then, traded those words for stars instead, as he followed paths where moonlight led. Not one to...
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Ann Peck
Categories:
grifter,
appreciation, beauty, poetry, words,
Form:
Rhyme
cheated by a Grifter
He was deceiver, cheater, bluffer, imposter at best A beguiler, charlatan, pettifogger, you know the rest… All of our family fortune is now wiped out, gone. Due to this sleazy grifter, Mr. Lee Wron....
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
grifter,
character,
Form:
Rhyme
She Smelled of Unstable
she smelled of unstable an upgrade from offline like a magnet folded in two she had me sputtering over gutters whenever she was looking for action there was no getting bored i was but one of a billions souls who's timing was all wrong it's a wonder i ever belonged i was readily decomposed changed into another compound waffling like an improper synonym and then...
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Thresha Reese
Categories:
grifter,
12th grade, america, internet,
Form:
Free verse
Grifter
grifter calamitous thieving, conniving man betrayed, hoodwinked, swindled grifter...
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
grifter,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Cinquain
Note To Trump
================================ You snuck into our House as a fraud, ran amok through our values rough shod and made 'witch hunts' the sitch, because YOU ARE A WITCH. But now, you've been evicted, THANK GOD! ================================ 11/25/2020...
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Lycia Harding
Categories:
grifter,
abuse, goodbye, leadership, leaving,
Form:
Limerick
Grip the Grifter
There’s a high-class hobo drifter bumming rides throughout the land Grip the Grifter ... watch it society women, don’t shake his hand! If Grip get a hold of your purse money, he ain’t letting go Grip talks fast Grip remembers slow Yesterday to him was a glacial year ago Grip walks with a fake limp Grip give promises like an honest pimp Grifter Grip talk green...
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
grifter,
corruption, humorous, parody, truth,
Form:
Light Verse
Grifter
Grifter (inspired by Seth Art Carrillo) Grifter was what someone told me...I reckon it was on a ridiculously stupid app...and a friend of mine told me about it, laughing while he says it...while I silently throw a tantrum...here the pounding of my drums of defeat...covered in corruption's cum...that drips against my fatigued feet right...
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J.W. Earnings
Categories:
grifter,
deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Acrostic