Pontification Poems | Examples

Empty Barrels

Is most of your life spent
alone in the dark
Hiding from rainbows
in colorless spite
The sun waits a mistress
the evening a whore
That paid by the hour
exposes your blight

Professing in earnest
those things you don’t know
Whose pontification
a mask that conceals
What others see clearly
fate not to deceive
Delusion and bluster
—your folly revealed

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

Forked Tongues

Not lying outright
is far from the truth
Hesitance vacuous
barren of fruit

What never gets said
deceitfulness hides
Stalking and preying
while buried inside

The pulpit a soapbox
 lectern a mask
Pontification
deceptions bombast

Wittingly fervent
the devil subverts
False implication
—the ultimate hurt

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

A Threnody To the Tragedy In Owo

What a sad day it was on the fifth day of June
Death being so greedy visited Saint Francis in about noon
And a beautiful sunny day was thrown into shade
Man's wickedness to man makes my heart fade

For Nigeria, I'm tired of daily writing a dirge
But these recurrent events cause a verge of tears as we sit on the edge
Whether east or west we're covered with shame
But sadly our leaders run after fame

The tragedy in the land of Owo
Like others punctured our national honour
What's is left is a pontification
From a lack of good evaluation

Alas, I'm shattered as I mourn the dead
Maybe I should mourn Nigeria instead
The land of Owo was thrown into flood of tears
What score is ever worth a fellow's tears

I saw among those that have died
Some eminent people that had nowhere to hide
We're like lilacs or lilies that love to blossom
But this nation shades us with boredom

We live in the land of fury
Where we can't trust the jury
But I'm sure that the brains behind this continuous massacre
Will sooner face their negative karma

Camera Shy

8 or 9 dudes expecting at least 85 views/
Maybe a shot for the spot on the channel 5 news/
As he lay there imagining where his day went wrong/ with the only breath he has left cuz he won’t live long/
He’s wishing that he paid his child’s college fund in advance/
He understands that his chance won’t be great/
All these phones and no plans of an ambulance so it’s gone be late/
The wet amber veil distorts his vision of the patchwork quilt of baby mother cover/
Regrets of making amends and telling her how much he really loves her/
As he’s being shot from iphones from point blank range/
His brain strains to complain of pain and panic he desires to exchange/
There’s no words , adjective or verbs as he goes into shock , the numbness of the nerves/
Tragically he slides into silver slope of silent slumber, disappearing thoughts of his previous pontification/
He reaches his hand in his pocket, the natural response for the twitter notification/

The Fleeting Motherlode

High minded but low brow,
and living the contradiction
of a greater truth
I’m caught between transcendence
and pontification
my pockets ladened 
with a traitor’s silver
—in search of gold

(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)

Poisoning the Well

We turn a deaf ear
as they live with the pain
of those who we cancel
with biting disdain

Unable to rise
above selfish intent
with opioid bias
our progeny bent

Pontification
colors the flow
young ears once thought distant
to reap what we sow

The world as we leave it
our tracks in the sand
forever to haunt us
—as children disband

(Radnor Pennsylvania: December, 2021)

Committee Buzz

The air is thick with words.
They flutter and beat
About my ears
Like a thousand moths.
A proliferation of pontification
And pedantic pomposities
Numbs my mind
And muddles my thoughts.
Details, details, details!
Minute subtleties and
Nuances confuse, confound.
I feel the urge to shout,
“Simple! Keep it simple!
Give up the cluttered verbiage!
Give us advantages,
Disadvantages,
The points we need
To make a decision!”
The words retreat into
A hum of beating wings.
I smile vacantly
And think of something else!

Pontification

pontification
plus narcissism ~whoa mule....
self-forgetfulness   



pontification
[-'kaSH?n]
DEFINITION
noun form of pontificate
pontificate
[pontificate]
VERB
express one's opinions in a way considered annoyingly pompous and dogmatic.
"he was pontificating about art and history"
synonyms:
hold forth · expound · declaim · preach · lay down the law · [more]
(in the Roman Catholic Church) officiate as bishop, especially at Mass.
NOUN
(in the Roman Catholic Church) the office or tenure of pope or bishop.

Begone,Dull Care

Sententiousness I seriously cannot bear
I cannot abide po-faced pontification
Faced with which I  want to pull out my hair
Being  more at home in  a festive occasion.

Flee the pessimism of the puritan's pulpit
There is  more merriment found  in carpe diem
 When Falstaffian rogues  with us carousing  sit.
Send  cold   gravity to its chilling  requiem

If you were  given the news  your end were nigh
No Cromwell roundhead,more  cavalier Dartagnan
What better way to go,do you think,,laugh or cry?
Give me  every  day a mirthful companion.

So haste ye away,you gloomy  prophets of doom
And allow  us imbibe   in a jovial room

Vanity's Ghost

The narcissism
  of small differences…

The egos crown
  of thorns

The sharper each
  individual barb

The more frequently
  it’s worn

A grand
  pontification

Whose wind
  blows just one way

Into the face of
  vanity’s ghost

In jealous
  —disarray

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Never To Rest

I’m a Poet…. 
  don’t try to trap me with words
  or with logic you don’t understand

With your barrister’s training 
  you’re out of your league
  this arena beyond your command

In some ways 
  I’ve already said it all
  but never in the form you approve

Or with comforting platitudes 
  lining your shell
  as pontification behooves

The slick easy answers 
  unfit for a Sage
  but the pundit and liars attest

My message as spoken 
  comes at great cost
    —your conscience never to rest

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)

Confrontation

Here you stand accused of intimidation, degradation and defamation
Daily depreciation, mental extirpation exploitation and pontification
Demoralization, cutting down people short of castration or amputation
Being a ruthless purveyor of humiliation, frustration and devastation

We gave you undivided attention, dedication, devotion and ovation
What more did you want from us, a coronation? You’re an abomination
What possible justification for abuse equivalent to molestation
Is it any wonder out in the world, there’s daily confrontation and assassination

You left us nothing more than palpitation, indignation and now vociferation
Rightfully demanding an investigation resulting in sensitization, a little edification
We have ambitions of a civilization where thrives admiration and appreciation
A combination of inspiration, aspiration, dedication and compensation


Submitted on March 7, 2018 for contest RHYME BATTLE X: SHOWDOWN sponsored by JULI-MICHELLE  -  RANKED 1ST

Society - Me ****

Society – me ****


Society, the straight jacket of “socially” acceptable mores,
condemning all to a “one size fits all living coffin.
Social “mores”, cultural cudgels of “independent thought”,
ballyhooing the wonders of our differences
until Society’s sycophancy rears its head in obsequious disapproval.
Societal “Class Warfare” – High Society gazing at the “Waterfront”,
the homeless wrestling the wharf rats for scraps.
Secular secessionists worshiping the gods of political pontification
while the poor listen to the rumble of empty bellies
the elected intelligentsia nudge each other at the trough.



9/21/2016

submitted to – What Is Society? -  poetry contest

Accismus

Fake indifference
Strength from within
Let the ******** begin
Feigning ignorance
Pretend happy circumstance
Did you plan this? Was it your intent?

All you are is a plastic apparatus
Philosophunculist
You invent  - drastic fiction
Completely spent
Of all sense – covered in dents
Your rent will not - stop your eviction

Delve in a cesspool of thoughts

Awaken! Panticulation!
Meretricious offense
Wild and  vagarious
Outrageous Hindrance!
Deliverance
Auspicious pontification
Kills me

           Inch	by
                             inch

Skeight of Hand

The shell game moves with lightning speed

Fueled by deceit and endless greed

On and on the pundits roll

Pontification seems to be the rule

No adhesion do we see

As they fracture us into bickering fools

While we’re on our knees they steal our tools

Aren’t you tired of your furtive glance?

Joining together our only chance

Shame on you and shame on me

This wearisome attitude on bended knee

I don’t know the answer what can I say

Frightening thought neither do they?

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