Short Lip Service Poems

Short Lip Service Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Lip Service by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Lip Service by length and keyword.


Lip Service

most poets
neither am nor want to be
just stuck
halfway to an imagined hell
of homage to self
and lip service to the creator
Form: Sedoka


Premium Member Lip Service

Tripping from our tongues-
                                       the joys of worship

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Form: Monoku

Honour Thy Husband

Gladys Humpadick's extra mile
Was well known to the rank and file
Though married to Otto
She honoured his motto
"Lip Service rendered with a smile!"
Form: Limerick

The Fate of Forgive-Less-Ness

The Fate of Forgive-less-ness
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Love without forgiveness.
But with Hippocritical lip service 
Destroys devotion, adoration, and fidelity.

Lip Service

We speak of truth, our souls delight,
but actions prove us wrong

If words alone could make it so
—each day would end in song

(University Of Pennsylvania: May, 2021)
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Lip Service

There once was a lass named Bikini Rose
Curvy-swervy from her lips to her toes
   The lads ah-ed and oohed 
   Which Rose just pooh-poohed
Due to those hairs coming out of her nose
Form: Limerick

Sanctity of the Cross

Truth by lip service and rote

Nailed to a cross

Judgment by history; cut short

To appease the blaggard and bullies of faith

Nailed to idolatry

The future by judgment; cut short

To appease the Judas heart

Harmony

May all of the Saints preserve us!
Harmony offers lip service!
A robot on call
Who can do it all
Is bound to make women nervous! 

*Harmony  is a robotic sex doll
featured in the September 2020 issue
of National Geographic magazine 
Form: Limerick

Premium Member WORDS

Without them, there’d be no poetry 
No songs, no lip service 
No books, no Bible, no dictionaries 
No libraries or Barnes and Noble 
No languages, no need for Babl 
No googoo’s or gaga’s 
No yelling for the home team 
No hallelujahs or amens

Without words, we’d all be pets.

Lip Service

No censorship from your lips
Declarations made unapologetically
Living to offend
You triumph at being different
Unique now is a dirty word
The way you mean it
As an excuse to be belligerent
To speak your mind freely
Regardless of the consequences
You hurt others with your tongue
Your words are acidic
Eroding away any peace from within me

Clinging to Words

"Love you a lot."
Words never said with honest hands.

This devilish lip-service
conducted
by defrocked priests.

I will not love myself
until,
I find you in a hole
I also can jump into.

We will huddle together
listening for the
hot breath of hunting wolves,

not knowing it is we,
we who breathe so coarsely,
so loud,
so lost and feral.

Good Faith

G-ood faith cannot be questioned, 
H-aving honesty of heart; 
I-n the morn of February fifth, 
N-ice result won't fall
A-part.

G-ood faith doesn't fail, 
U-sing mind's lawful purpose; 
A-iming to do no evil, 
D-enying the liar's lip service.
A-s you break not your vow, 
N-ew heaven you eagerly await; 
A-ll you do here on earth is indeed in good faith.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Simply Set Aside

Simply set aside
Your gleaming desire
Your slippery grip
Of fools gold knowledge. 
Gifting dollars to
Nonsense
Biting satire aloft
In the rafters,
Reason willing,
God in a shilling,
Blow wish bubbles 
Forward,  save sanity,
Swimming in a pool of PTSD.
Set aside, simply,
Ontological lip service,
And line up,
Steel reflecting and narrow 
To ingest living love's liquidity.

Navigating a Rough Ocean

Cultures clash 
    and people have a tough 
time understanding each other 
  Each individual sends out 
mixed signals 
   This is what causes strife  - and even wars
 Different views of life 
    and its meaning 
   lead to friction 
between individuals and nation states
    Lip - service is paid to tolerance 
  But finding common ground 
is like navigating a rough ocean 
    Let us hope and pray 
we don't drown in the surf

Premium Member Copla 91 Invocation: This Bad Guy World

COPLA 91 INVOCATION : This Bad Guy World

Not on whose coat-tails hang the Yang
Other values than lip-service count :
Nor country birth

Wave no flags at Death’s door crying « Bang ! »
True bravery quenches staunch souls’ fount :
Denial’s worth

Harm’s wrong however right the cause
Refusing timely help’s likewise an arm :
Do souls alarm

Even intentions turn to grouse
If kept from keeping neighbour warm :
Yin feel no qualm

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
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