Short Bragger Poems

Cloak and Bragger/senryu

the syllable count
piled up on the vacant beach
cloaked in mystery


John G. Lawless
3/12/2015...

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Shane Blaine walked with a swagger
and was viewed as a bragger.
Ladies liked him lots
but kept secret their thoughts.
Awed by his eight-inch dagger....

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When asked how I am today
This is what I say.

Not good 
Not bad
Just me.

No one likes a complainer.
No one likes a bragger.

Neither of these will I be
If I'm JUST ME....

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Two Encores

Now please don’t think me a bragger,
But, I sung on stage with Mick Jagger.
There we pouted our lips,
and we wiggled those hips.

Two encores and Superstar swagger....

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Bragger Who Would Stagger

Total amount of sins was enough to stagger;
About them Trump was boaster and bragger;
Publicly profane;
Hard to explain;
Destined for disaster yet he still did swagger.

Jim Horn...

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A grand tiger I am. My stripes are superb.
You need to leave me alone. I’m quick to perturb.
I’m king of the wild. A carnivore beast.
God’s molded me and made me top drawer at least.
A bragger, a boaster, now who would not be?
I’m all that and pure yellow, with stripes you can see....

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Old Mick has the lips of a bragger
And wiggles his hips with a swagger.
He jumps, full of beans
In black skinny jeans
With hip-shaking destined to stagger!

Old ladies enjoy the distraction
Of seeing their idol in action.
He keeps them at bay
For, wrinkly and grey,
They can't give him no satisfaction!

30.08.19

'Swagger poetry contest' sponsored by Line Gauthier...

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I close my eyes
To dreams I partake
But I fall from my sky
I am awake

I cannot pass
My insomnia shake
My mental harass
I am awake

Memories flood
Like a thinking quake
Thicker than blood
I am awake

Bodily sweat
With my pain and ache
Stalking silhouette
I am awake

In my heart death
This life is lived fake
I feel the cold breath
I am awake

I plunge dagger
All I've lost, I take
But in sleep I’m a bragger
Never awake...

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I know I don’t look like Brad Pitt 
imagine trying to stay fit
I am not a neuro surgeon 
I would surely be a virgin 

I don’t have Donald Trump’s money
but then girls think I’m so funny 
I will never sing like Jagger 
people say I’m not a bragger

I don’t drive a red Ferrari 
I like going on safari 
the whole idea of minister 
just creeps me to be sinister 

I know I’m so very lucky 
but I do dream of unlucky? 

- iambic tetrameter-...

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rich white spoiled brat
dodges draft 
talks about struggles
and patriotism
for OTHERS

hypocritical self-serving
amoral being
talks about
ethics and laws for Others
and goes his own perverted ways


political outsider insider  
speaks 
but does not listen 
makes noise 
but no sense 

supposed entertainer
plays with himself
produces black comedy 
and tragedy
tweeting like a white crow

bully bragger
coward
someday someone 
will confront him 
and kick OUR  behinds...

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