Short Hogwash Poems

Hogwash

That man 

Didn't have a single

Enemy

In this entire world 

Apart from 

Maybe perhaps 

Himself...

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Baloney, bumfuzzle, fiddledeedee
Taradiddle, gardyloo, snickersnee
Gobbledygook, gardyloo, tickle me,
Hullabaloo, cattywampus hogwash hoo-ha
Claptrap, collywobbles ballyhoo brouhaha!



~A Brian Strand 4 or 5 line contest....

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My Contst Pom

‘Josh Kibosh’ who has only small-scale splash cash
looks for a young woman’s copious plash stash
when his hogwash commands dosh
Josh’s gluttonous slosh habits turn posh
so Madam transforms flash in his pan into pulp-mash

08th October 2016...

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I've heard, “Red skies at morning,
Sailors take warning," - hogwash.
My words to rising red skies
YOU threaten MY day?

Your spell does not block my hope,
you are not a weatherman,
you wait and see, Mr. Sky, 
clear, blue skies by noon.

written June 20, 2013
contest:  A DoDo kind of day by Francine Roberts...

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an
act of
betrayal;
simple as that.
to dismiss it as
a "mistake" is hogwash. 
whoever cheats on a spouse
understands the consequences. 
it's a clear warning sign to exit.
cheaters are often repeat offenders.




Date written: 12/28/2021...

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Every day I find myself looking through my window
Like a pathway into my whole life
I can see every sweep, every hogwash moment

Now I am like the final viewer
All these years I have been growing up not know of now
Until now, which came to swiftly

Moments of the past; of the future
all coincide with these young thoughts
which so abruptly stop my mind

Life, which was once a gift to me
Once again posses me to be it's humble prisoner
and again I see that this is all it can be...

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