Short Pretentious Poems

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


Pettweet

Prepare to procure passivity in perpetual progress of personifying perfection! Puppets prefer playing pretend. Preposterously pretentious.
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Premium Member A Moment of Reprieve

it seemed
his pretentious gibberish
would never end
and then 
out of nowhere
emerged
the most blessed
awkward
silence



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump
There's no adviser that he would't dump
Sometimes though his act seems pretentious
Remember, to him, everyone else is Apprentice

7.29.18
© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Clerihew

Pep Guardiola

Pep Guardiola
they will wreathe a garland of Catalan cut gladiola
for that pretentious Olympian brow
but that horrid tie and collar - that's just not Arsenal somehow.
Form: Clerihew

Fabricated Charm

Token love tendered with a cheap card
Bartered lyric from a trite bard
Gilded, fabricated charm
Brokered, pretentious smarm
Words, symbols to treasure then disregard
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Pigeons

Pompous city dwellers,
pretentious rock doves now
parade around like a 
popinjay or fancy
peacock, and yet, they're not
persnickety poopers:
pooping on everything.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Poppycock

Percolating perfect poppycock, pretentious, impolite.
Roiling resistance to reverent recourse, rudiment rap.
Ceaseless sass surrendered to cell; spoiled sediments settle.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Paradise Spurned

Strelitzia reginea is utterly pretentious!
Its claim to fame is so contentious!
For it is not a bird, that's absurd!
As sinner impenitent, from paradise it's spurred.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Confidence

Does she really
not know
how beautiful
she is
with her
fresh baby skin
her innocent
childish eyes
her hesitant smile
devoid 
of pretentious
guiles



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Premium Member Without Words

Atlanta's Oliver Hardy
so pretentious and somewhat lardy,
had a sidekick,bungling,but thin
both silently,still bring a grin


Tribute to Laurel & Hardy-who proved  humour needs no words and does not date
Form: Clerihew

Just a Note : Wise Men 5

. Men with pretentious brains should use their knowledge wisely . By ridiculing others , they make nothing of themselves other than unworthy fools.
A reposted quote !

Premium Member Before and After

He used to be:
   wordy, verbose, prolix,
   chatty, jejune, digressive,
   tedious, long-winded, repetitive,
   elaborate, grandiloquent, loquacious,
   pretentious, comprehensive, circumlocutory

Now he is:
   pithy
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.

Taradiddle --- Faradiddle

Taradiddle Means someone or something that's filled with pretentious nonsense, quite skilled. ~X~X~X~ Faradiddle It's a broader sense of nonsense or rubbish a falsehood comment.
© Pratap Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Conscious

Don't be so pretentious 
To not be conscious
All the things you've seen give you a luscious feel. 
So go on, as you discover more. 
When you found what your looking for. 
Give a rest.
Buckle up and mesmerized by your thing.
© Jo Ji  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Brown

Brown Brown, you come to me with warmth and complete resolve. You are not flashy or pretentious but content to stand back and stay out of the spotlight.. Strong and comforting I turn to you and bathe in your quiet promise.

The New God

They gather in cathedral clinics,
(with virtuoso grin)
scientists in robes of white.
Pretentious keepers of a new race,
their will shall be a will that mimics;
Manipulating the gene pool's base
in halls white-washed of sin,
not as God, but as God might...
Form: Rhyme

Triple a Challenge

Your asseveration is unsupported –
With pretentious ideas 
I once thought you were altruistic
But now the blind fold unveiled 
I see now vividly axiomatic –
You carry away your sorrows and drown them in your doubt
Such a shame my darling-
You could of rose above it

Upside Down Pompous Cake

½ cup sass
1 tbsp eye roll
2 cups suprirotive 
1 cup white privilege 
½ tsp rudeness
1 brand new car, softened 
5 oz brand name clothing
A dash of allof, to taste 

Add all ingredients together, while whisking in misinformed news media. Mix thoroughly for pretentious.
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Premium Member Disloyalty

Disloyalty is like a cocktail with a mixture of pretentious entangled with a so called clicks, captured in webs  deceptions and full of backbiting oftentimes are illusions of breaking of faith and disloyalty and omissions of one that can’t be loyal when its only delivers to you.
Form: Bio

Tawny Frogmouth

One look. You smile, you nod, you fall for him
Eyes enchanting, breathing dead bark of tree
Showy singer, poor nest, pretentious whim
Yet, expert in stumping, purrs when with glee
Takes up parenting with love, face never once grim
So uxorious, love-rich. Why ours not so be?
Form: Rhyme

Slp

Thoughts.  they twist, turn, and travel,
in a passing pretentious place as one ponders
crying, climatic, charismatic, characteristics containing to you.
Delightedly  doubtful, declining due to direct disbelief 
So subtle these thoughts are saying surely yet slowly sleep. 
Sleep 
Just sleep

Pale Blue Dot

Freedom to choose
Freedom to lose

Alpha omega, the blood runs quick
Pride of the people in the arms of the sick

Curtains drawn

A tiny rock in an infinite space
A pretentious, silly place

Should we aspire to dance among the stars?
If the dream doesn't exceed the grasp
How can we get very far?
Form: Rhyme

Rubys Are a Mans Best Friend

more earthy than a diamond
precious without being pretentious
words like splendid describe
a rubys awe inspiring dimensions
a dime piece set in platinum personality
sapphires, emeralds, and pearls are nice
but rubys are a mans best friend
the most impressive form of ice



*written for ruby
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God

have you ever heard of progress?
figures

it's something you do to keep from
writing the same thing over and over
till it all feels like deja vu

have you ever heard of immortality?
something high up there above you?
no, you just smirk and call it
"pretentious"

well god is pretentious, i'm sure
© Val Murah  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Cheap Shots

it’s too easy to mock
and ridicule
to take on airs
so pompous
pretentious
arrogant
irreverent
and insolent

blatant cheap attempts
to have us look
the other way
at least momentarily
take the attention
off our own 
personal flaws
and shortcomings



AP: Honorable Mention 2026, Honorable Mention 2020

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