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Lackey Poems - Poems about Lackey

Gilty!
...One man’s opulence another Might consider tacky, Especially when catered to By every spineless lackey. Yet those who rake in riches As their empire’s being built Should, if empathy at all exi......

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Categories: lackey, america, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peers
...Who are these peers to whom I'm supposed to belong to? Certainly not my soul mates, nor kin. I fear they're lackey leerers, peering and sneering, in unsavory ways. Smearing my reputation by cl......

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Categories: lackey, friend, friendship, social,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mackie Avellen Is a Cad
...Sue's livid with Mackie Avellen He's ditched her for her bestie Ellen I pity poor Sue Not sure what she'll do As her pregnant belly's now swellen Now Mackie is nasty cad He’s den......

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Categories: lackey, betrayal,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Ballad of Villonia Beebe, a Life In Three Parts: Part 2
...The Middle Years She'd been wooed by dukes and diplomats From Nome to Nagasaki, Kept by mobsters, bishops, bureaucrats, And a movie mogul's lackey. She'd been plied with jewels, a fancy......

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Categories: lackey, humor,
Form: Ballad
Nigerian Police Station
...Once, I was there to check a tall Zaki And it became reason to meet khaki, Very clean but most offices tacky: A cop could turn one into a lackey! I know The Police is for the Nation But I sha......

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Categories: lackey, africa, allusion, corruption, cry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Kowtow
...fawns flops, flatters folds, cringing cowers to comply sycophant lackey......

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Categories: lackey, relationship,
Form: Senryu
The Lackey
...The young lackey cries For the glorious achievements That featured his past His dreamy head flies Daydreaming of contentment That he's always last His present is bleak With overgrown overc......

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Categories: lackey, depression, desire, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All Power All Praise
...In the beginning there was God alone.' He made all things to praise His name Praise Him all creation' let everything That has breath praise the Lord Yahweh.' Praise Him all you demons.' Fall down......

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Categories: lackey, appreciation, bible, celebration, confidence,
Form: Verse
The Instigator
...The Instigator The sky over Europe is silent, but there is fear In the heart of many and the man who started this fear is sleepless and swims slowly in his swimming pool. He is......

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Categories: lackey, angst, break up, corruption,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member On the Eve of Camerone - Vera Cruz, April, 1863
...So, the regimental adjutant is to command 3rd Company As we escort three million francs to Puebla? Leave it to the general to trust such a fortune To a band of misfits led by a staff lackey Who......

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Categories: lackey, history, military,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Random Rhymes
...SMART ALECK Smugly Ugly CRAZY MINION Wacky Lackey CRAMMED BRIEFCASE Obese Valise GOOD FRIEND Lover Cover BAR-HOPPING Beaver Fever...

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Categories: lackey, humorous,
Form: Footle
The Lost Bell
...Out of the provinces, lies my line... Toiling the toxic night, Nightmarish lackey of the routine... I, child of the leaves... Left the soil, My Memsahib detached... My soul beats the sid......

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Categories: lackey, absence, adventure, career, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Poet and the Performer
...She was the last to board the jetliner And had to stand forlorn As they found a seat for her. Clutching a fat paperback With no aide nor lackey in sight She was flying to keep her date With t......

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Categories: lackey, music, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Talking Smack
...*I've been called a 'shrew,' told I am self centered, petty, and a few other rather insulting and invective names, so here is my rebuke. Who plays the straight man for the one known as 'S......

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Categories: lackey, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What's the Hue of Your Heart - Question Mark
...What’s the Hue of Your Heart? Does ‘claim’ to be ‘___’ (1) not suggest one’s more Racist? The Truth’s we’re all mongrels (and born of one mother!), whatever our ‘Color.’ ......

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Categories: lackey, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme

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