Short Crooks Poems

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liven in lock-down
where everyone wears a mask
bare-faced ones are crooks...

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When women using knives they are cooks,

When men using it they are crooks!...

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Isn’t how it looked
Rereading instruction book
  From catalog crooks

    By Robb A. Kopp...

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Tanka 
Our democracy,
Bought by the highest bidder,
Is an empty word 
We do not need elected crooks
We need a new Mandela...

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So many crooks like old Madoff
From trusting folks they get paid off
The economy fell 
Yet their pockets still swell
and as for me, I am laid off...

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Parents give teachers dirty looks
They don't want students reading books
Why flip your lid?
Kids never did!
Its much more fun to learn from crooks!...

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No matter how shabby it looks
The Caravan's not filled with crooks
Kids don't want to roam
They want a safe home
Where they can play whilst mother cooks!...

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A K-9 Spaniel who sniffed down crooks
started getting suspicious looks
To avoid detection
he’s in witness protection
with ten butlers and twenty-three cooks...

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There once were some Senators in office
Approving taxes that really cost us
But when an audit was done
The Senators had paid none
These crooks are adding to our losses...

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In business, when the 
buyers threatened the sellers with 
guns for cheap prices, 

it is  robbery.
buyers are bands of dangerous 
crooks and robbers.

August 5/2023...

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Shetland’s Jimmy Perez isnae hip,
but the crooks never give him the slip.
Thoogh ah dinnae ken much
‘bout his preference for scotch,
to his island, we’re planning a trip....

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Revenue Shortage

Pillage 
Village
Millage
Usage
Slippery men, pillage village books.
Breaker of trust, millage, usage crooks. 

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 16, 2010
Poetic form: Tyburn...

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Sister's are like blisters. 
They hurt those misters.
Brothers are like candy
They choke on brandy
Mothers are like books
They mess with the crooks 
Pets are like eaters
They bite the cheaters
Family is scary
Because their always Wary...

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Messenger of Missery

When we had looked into history
Trump caused so much misery
Cutting down people for their looks
And Is anther one of the crooks
Maybe he should join a sistery.

Female nuns there ought to
straighten him out.

Jim Horn...

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Our Congress has been overlooking

The wisdom of old Granny Lu-Ching

       She was full blooded Chinese

       And said, "Beware strange foods please

 Of crooks that won't eat their own crooking!"



                                    Timothy I. Brumley...

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I look across the room in hope
Few books, a rope
I tie them all, 
Afraid to fall

Experiences are to climb
Ladder of time
Yet I tie books
Soldiers at crooks

Books are my weapons at combat
But Life is brat
The pages tear
All left is fear

24.7.2021...

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Rich white-collar crooks wearing suits,    
	street walkers, and rowdy old coots,
	bank robbers, dope dealers,
	bootleggers, fake healers--           
	I found while pursuing my roots!

fictional!


July 15, 2018, entered in Carolyn Devonshire's Limerick contest...

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Still in the grass, it lays
Hidden from everyone, it stays
On provoking, it bites 
For its dignity, it fights

It can swim in a lake
Your life, it can take
They are good in their looks
But some of them are crooks

No, it is not fake
What I'm talking about is a snake...

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There was a sheriff named Andy Taylor
He was also the county's best bailor
Most folks seemed to adore him
Except the crooks were so grim
Guess they knew he was also the jailer




On A Lim Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May 
April 3, 2022...

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Before visiting Dublin town,
I got out the guidebooks
Staring at the crooks and valleys
Studied the terrain, figured out the contour lines
What are you doing? The other travelers asked.
Figuring out where the pot of gold is, of course.
They smirked at my ignorance, not realizing how close I was to come....

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Am I guilty by association?
Well at least that`s how it looks.
And because shes in my family.
They think we both are crooks.
But I cannot confirm.
And nor can I deny.
Anything she might of done.
I`m not her alibi.
And if that`s how they feel.
Then I can clearly see.
How I might of turned.
Into a liability....

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Self-publishing of your books?
They really are a bunch of crooks,
They have you think your approaching wealth,
But all you’ve done is fill your shelf
	
So keep your cash in your pants,
(If  an offers real, they’ll pay an advance,)
Why taste  the crafty self-publishing honey? 
To get in print, takes more than money...

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(Georgia election Senryus)

Yeah, we're going
to give America the
democratic win.

'Cause that's how we roll.
We'll show you how to toss out
republican crooks.

We'll give the bird to
lying Donald Trump and his
criminal cohorts.

Long live America,
long live the constitution,
long live blue Georgia....

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In search of long lost orchards
where apple blossoms bloom;
an ole white ashen farmhouse
and corncrib-playhouse rooms.

Searching for the scent of pine
where lingering laughter lies,
for the summer days gone by
and seashells on the tide.

Hungering for spruce gum chaw
we dug from crooks of trees
for the tart and bittersweet
memories of childhood deeds....

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The rain drips my veins
Callous draws tight 
Entrenched
Peg leg with 3 teeth

Shaking down the crooks
Blasting through the waterfront
Set anchor to the docks
This place as good as any
Let's get to work

Mutiny at sunset
We'll crawl into graves
And disguise our face

Lofty mermaids arrest
Stolen glances
Our brotherhood sails true
Like nails ringing
Set to live or die...

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