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Machiavellian Poems - Poems about Machiavellian


The Machiavellian
With honeyed comments, you absorb adulation in vain; drinking it in like a congratulatory champagne. Down your nose, you smoothly cajole; Deft at choreographing leverage to reach a goal. The effete man you put forth is cast in boorish airs - Stealthily exuding to foil all players. Irreproachable character, you claim in spades, but to athwart interference you throw up...

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Categories: machiavellian, betrayal, irony, power,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member King Lear's Voice
King Lear’s Voice Nothing out of nothing William Shakespeare A king of true tragedy No unconditional love. No never and nothing Machiavellian His descent into madness Dead to Heaven above. Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved October 10, 2018 (Double Dactyl)...

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Categories: machiavellian, allegory, betrayal, depression, emotions,
Form: Double Dactyl



Machiavellian Machinations
Treachery is the coin of the covert realm, gears within gears turning ... Devious machinations, pure Machiavellian Secrecy is the Shanghai shuffle speech Tool and Die maker, what instrument of inflection deception will you darkly wield? Skilled in the art of misdirection, fake exit wounds make a theatrical lead entrance A surreptitious maze of feint thought progression Allied motility based on mutual scoundrel affinity Chicanery is the...

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Categories: machiavellian, allusion, corruption, dark, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Machiavellian Manoeuvring
He thought he had it made That he could hide and make the grade And get what he wanted in the end So his position he could defend In Machiavellian manoeuvring So he could sit back smiling But he could not control everything And in his life so sad to bring. © Paul Warren Poetry...

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Categories: machiavellian, life,
Form: Ballad
Machiavellian Intent
Seldom seen suspicious and spiritual mighty and unseen rendered obscene futile and flawed with prominence immersed in corruption an unconscious perception implications essential in the inevitable metaphor set forth. Compelling controversy fundamental yet instrumental examine the obsessed strive for nothing less banishment to second best disseminate perpetual hate enthusiastically emphasizing infinity. Be candid when persuading...

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Categories: machiavellian, introspectionmetaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse




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