Long Bamboozle Poems

Otis Wheat was a simple man.  He didn’t have much to say and when he did say something it was worth listening to.  He was generally shy to a fault but when the...

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Liberty has been taken hostage, abducted in many parts
Of the world
Freedom is often smothered, suffocated in many hearts
In this world
Both are often used as steady stepping stones
By demagogues and fibbers to break the bones
Of patriots...

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y'all know me-     I'm in the poem biz     
and it is a no brainer     when I need a fix(I come to the main...

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When I was growing up, my Dad
had some quaint old fashioned notions
of what a good girl should or shouldn’t do.
I didn’t want to make him sad
I tried so hard to please him.
But dear old Daddy...

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What are we feeling.? In us,  I address the whole of humanity.' Where are we destined or
Are we bound.? Or are we just bound.? By an ology of idealisam.? Isams idols icons;  isas
I...

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I praise God for modern telecommunications’ inventions
Making mankind benefit so well
But I feel bad, when in their vexing, “gobsmack” malfunctions
I become dysfunctional; thus, my exasperation-nerves swell!

I thank God for computer experts
For their good contributions, indeed...

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Holding out my unchained hand,
light as evaporated air
is the emancipation accrued debt equity

By making reparation demands,
this long overdue affair
has a short tabled legislation probability

Many moons of unpaid slave wages owed me,
fills my bosom with hollow...

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parTA
My sweet little gran-mire is 94 Years old.
She still works, as the chairwoman of the family trust.
You can call her “Godfather.”

The “frail old lady” is a humorous disguise she dons
to bamboozle the unwitting - like...

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*Notting else tastes so good
when 
the elegant daylight is still at spree
When
the bloomingblossoms are yet to yield
When
 the earth yawns 'may we live

  ..left to grin.
The hibiscus now smiles in sane,
the boozy sky and...

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death cannot endure eternity ~ if it could we’d never be born   
                    ...

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Traveler Without Rucksack
By Sy Roth

Aloneness, the traveler without rucksack
Beats the miles into your feet
A bare necessity for the nomad
For there are morns and sinking suns to see
In the endless desert of our lives.

The arroyo quickly...

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How about when stores jack up their prices
Then reduce them and call it a sale
I've been on to these devious practices for years
Their attempt to bamboozle us has failed

Annoying commercials that treat us like morons
As...

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How about when stores jack up their prices
Then reduce them and call it a sale
I've been on to these devious practices for years
Their attempt to bamboozle us has failed

Annoying commercials that treat us like morons
As...

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HAD FUN WITH ENTERING THE DICTIONARY FUN CONTEST sponsored by Delliah Ventura!
THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT HAD TO BE IN THE POEM 

Abomination scorn Affection Passion Yearning
Struggle Attempt Cherish Relationship Flame
Taste Tender Inner soul Bloom...

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I have a strange malady
curiously effecting me
for I am very susceptible
to words of a variety

Words like cushlamachree
or hobbledehoy
give me such joy...
that my brain begins burbling
at a fantastic rate
things like bamboozle, bumfuzzle
blatteroon, and bombinate!
Bogged down in...

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People are always asking me if I know this, that or the other.
I am not often bumfuzzled or hoodwinked by adults,
They usually have a tell, which they exhibit, totally unaware.
My older cousin, Jimmy, has a...

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My writing has become bamboozle.
              I keep getting braze. 
	         Not able to put...

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As I struggle through what life throws 
I admonish myself not to give in to the lows
I attempt to get on and give as good as I get
In relationships family and friends and yet

My inner...

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I shall not envy the upstart's polished gait, 
Or wish myself as old knights in diamonds
Hued to bamboozle familiar souls and eye, 
Flattered by aping pals and ersatz blondes. 

For swanky gait soon in quiet...

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You made an attempt to bamboozle me with well thought out charms
But I still struggle internally from the last charmer I once held in my arms
My inner soul continues to burn and the flame tortures...

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I hold three magic rocks, in my hand

Rolling them over, and over, and over

Leaving this reality behind, far behind

They use to be in my gall bladder

A magical place, where it is dark and stagnant

Land of...

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My grandparents would simply be blown away 
If they could see the inventions of today.

My grandmothers did not live to see colored TV
Computers, I-pads, I-phones.  Whee!

Stuff today would bamboozle them good.
Boggle their minds as...

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Our relationship felt like a ...abomination
Heart so scorn and broken

					But
				
		This affection, touching spirit running threw my spine
		          Passion touching my skin and making me spin
			 ...

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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,
and your willful or blind ignorance.
We gratefully accept
your abject submission
as we strive to eradicate
all opposition
and discussion.
You are the very best of sheep,
the most...

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Dear Lover...

I struggle to gulp
the scorn you poured.
My mouth parched,
desperate for a sip of your love.
A taste of your lips.

Your engagement- an abomination.
Our relationship still floods
the plains of my memory.
Surges storming in my inner soul.
Questions...

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