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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Strutting 
in place
Message
defaced
Words left
to spew
Bombast
in view
Worshipping
mirrors
Begging
for fame
Image
debasing
Vanity’s
— claim

(The New Room: March, 2025) 
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To campaign
in poetry
but govern
in prose
Words stretch
till breaking
integrity
blown

Promising 
everything
sins
unconfessed
Bombast
and pander
the charlatans
— best

(The New Room: July, 2025)

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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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Let’s cut right through
the bombast ...
your camouflage of words
And redefine
the essence ...
of what you’ve never learned
Your double-talk
pontificates ...
to lure and to distract
Whose lies deride
wherein you hide ...
 from what the truth exacts

(The New Room: February, 2025)
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I’m reading the paper real fast;
Don’t know just how long this’ll last
But my gut gets inflamed
When the culprit (unnamed)
Fills the page with his awful bombast.

By and by, there’ll be news I can read
But no politics, that’s guaranteed,
Or I’ll stick to my books
Where, if there are some crooks,
They get punished for each dirty deed.
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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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Do you treasure
perplexity
strive to confuse
doubting the obvious
pandering the ruse

Do you live inside
cloud cover
avoiding the sun
exposure avoided
your fear on the run

Do you hide
behind bombast
the panderer’s lie
your costumes unchanging 
as truth you deny

Do you wander
left aimless
your ego unbound
to cry from the wasteland
— bereft and unfound

(County Line: April, 2024)
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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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