Short Bombast Poems

he's so full of hits
what comes out is in  ex-cess
stinking pit-shot cats...

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Shouts, Yells, Screams, Rants, Raves
Bullhorn-magnified Bombast
"Decapitate him!"
Why don't the police stop it?
What happened to enforcement?...

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Dropping its bomb,
  always missing the mark

 Your echo implodes,
  a sound hollow and dark

Answers unquestioned,
  all bombast enflamed 

Drifting abandoned
  —in silence unclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)...

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Dropping like a bomb,
  always missing its mark

 Your echo explodes,
  a sound hollow and dark

Answers unquestioned,
  all bombast enflamed 

Smoke drifting abandoned,
—its silence unclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)...

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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)...

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You've heard all
      the bombast of
pundits and politicians
Now it's time
          to let the poets
   speak
Starlight shines above
      we
         travel
                below
filled with questions
  and rhymes 
      and loss
  Now it's time for a change!
         Open your mind
   leave all your worries behind
Let the poets speak!...

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A lecherous neophyte he preyed
upon their folded hands and closed eyes
bathed in their dolorous mumblings
sated himself on their penitential inhibition

Left them to flounder hopelessly - adrift
drowning in his vitriolic bombast
a hard burning scent of incense
left to smolder in their souls

for Providence had delivered them - to him



©6/16/2019

Eight word free verse challenge Poetry Contest
John Hamilton sponsor...

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