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Grifters Poems - Poems about Grifters
The Grifters
... They do not spend their time at home the way most families do Talking of the day’s events and dreams they will pursue Oh no, this family’s different they’re led by dirty Don Steeped in lif......
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Samia Ali Salama
Categories:
grifters,
corruption, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Time Is Running Out
...Right and wrong are human concepts, and like night and day, it's clear what sets them apart. Fight or flight, warps my outlook and clouds my Sight, for I stop listening to my heart. My ......
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Emile Pinet
Categories:
grifters,
america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form:
Lento
Smooth operators
... There’s a demon on my shoulder, clipping toenails into my ear An angel on the other, nibbles wax so I can hear He makes balm for my lips, lights candles once a year Both play devil’s advo......
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David Kavanagh
Categories:
grifters,
allusion, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
the gs have it
...gigantic girlish ghouls gathered at Gate’s gazebo glabrous ghouls glistening grotesque globs of gloom gothic goldbricking good-for-nothing gossips on the go green-eyed grandstanding grifters, gues......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
grifters,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Alliteration
A New Start For America
...Out with infighting and lack of general respect, Let’s restore our Congressional reputation Rank partisanship and grandstanding While padding their own coffers, I expect! Let’s rid o......
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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
grifters,
america, goodbye, perspective, political,
Form:
Quatrain
Frankenstein Tea Party 2021
...Science and scientists can be very divisive. Some seek truth; others seek accolades. My creator was such a man Who made me to demonstrate his greatness And denied me instead. I am not cruel, u......
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Linda Craddick
Categories:
grifters,
hope, science,
Form:
Free verse
A Message From Hell
...A light summer rain falls across distant blue mountains. I have a pretty cottage by a winding stream. This evening I recline in a garden chair on a sloping lawn. I merely need to think of a ......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
grifters,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Prophet
...In a dream the Almighty said, “You have a gift – go and prophesy.” Like the celebrated prophets of long ago, I thought, “Oh gee, oh my!” Political messages came fast and furious over the next f......
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©
L Milton Hankins
Categories:
grifters,
humorous, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Exemplar
...Did I learn a worthy trade? Study war as a warrior? Was I a helper, a first responder, nurse, nanny, priest, pumpkin farmer, a horny handed laborer, did I lecture nitwit’s on the liberal arts o......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
grifters,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Eagle Survives
...In this tumultuous political climate I find both parties irrelevant and obsolete They do not speak to me or my families’ needs Neither do they consider our suffering Day after day immigrants......
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Norberto Franco Cisneros
Categories:
grifters,
patriotic, political,
Form:
Free verse
Italy Isn'T So Little
...The blonde went down with not must resistance shunning off a stressful afternoon the scene played of society, high as I peered at all the pretense and pretend of an I want to be......
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Ts Poetry
Categories:
grifters,
people,
Form:
Free verse
Sugar Coated Go Daddies
... Grifters ... parasites of polite society Practitioners of the long and short con, two-armed trust bandits prying open the window of retiring dreams They tell some real tasty good be......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
grifters,
allusion, corruption, money, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Bedouin: Desert Transient
...Freelance wanderer carefully navigating the vast expanse Shadow warrior doth stealthily advance without remonstrance With bartered lance, pawned knife; abridged parlance Shuffling in tantric harmony......
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Stephen Parker
Categories:
grifters,
people
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
The City
...The City Brazen horns protest each others presence Steam rises from beneath the tarnished streets Taxis tease with flags that say "off duty' And in the shadows grifters ply their trade A cacophony ......
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Bob Quigley
Categories:
grifters,
places,
Form:
Free verse
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