Hucksters Poems - Poems about Hucksters

...Overzealousness and assiduousness... now propels yours truly towards restitution courtesy sophisticated mountebank, whose criminal mind filched mine banknotes rationed for when I exhibit decre......Read the rest...

...The word of discovery of gold in '49 in Californy raced across the nation! Why, it was said you could fill a bushel basket full with little botheration! This appealed to a young feller in Boston to......Read the rest...

... Definition..one who uses obsequious compliments, to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another. P…parasites who want payback H..harmful hucksters, hedonists O…obsessive, ......Read the rest...

...You'd hear them every morning Like a band of baritones The echoes of the horseshoes Clacking, on the cobblestones Each huckster with a wagon Pulled behind a blindered roan Parading back and for......Read the rest...

...Events beyond our ken and control trigger nausea in our soul Incidents of abusive police attacks lead to destructive civilian blowback Feelings well up from deep within that media hu......Read the rest...

...Rapids of the mind, moving at a furious pace as if there is no time to waste. A boat with oars... a raving raft… on all fours. In my dry suit, flapping like a seal. No way on earth I head ......Read the rest...

...Woe betide lower men who fickle facades embrace And wit’s hard-won gold for shifting dross exchange; Dubbing avarice-sired glosses exquisite gems pure, With obscuring eyes decimating solid worth'......Read the rest...

...Asian Epicurean Quest At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street. Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude......Read the rest...

... Farcical characters of ill gestures, they be no friends of mime Mute clown suits wearing viol marionette smiles all of the puppet string time I tell you, of a silent truth, those......Read the rest...

...Saturday Farmers’ Market Here’s how it goes at our Farmers’ Market: shoppers all ages, clothing, and races, parents push bundled babies in strollers, children dash eagerly through the crowd. ......Read the rest...

...21 Aug 2017 - Sonnet When all the joys you ever chased in life were bait that NEVER came without a hook - high-market hucksters charming you with fifes that drove thirst mad (and all done by th......Read the rest...

...Those who keep my Sabbath And fear my holy law And look for real compassion Through the mist Find a Temple waiting And peace and calm inside And praise and meditation Heaven-kissed. The eunuc......Read the rest...

..."The Lobster House" on the St. Johns River in Downtown-Downtown 1950s Jacksonville, Florida, was where "The Creaturefrom the Black Lagoon" crawled up from the deep onto a riverfront deck to ho......Read the rest...

...Haiku 9-1-2016 splattering raindrops hucksters peddling their wares gray calling clouds John G. Lawless 9/1/2016......Read the rest...

...On the dreary streets of a quaint but callus steadfast hamlet A pearl in the bluster carries a handwoven sweet grass basket The umbrella' d tinge of the tiny town was opaque and gray As the......Read the rest...