Short Scoundrel Poems

He’s no one’s favorite
She cannot leave him alone
Loving who she loves...

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Guilty one
Capable of gross wickedness
A vile wretch
A scoundrel
A rascal
Unprincipled character...

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He is a caricature of his Dad
A faker, imposter, jester, and cartoon
Some say he’s a scoundrel, some kind of cad.
His reputation depicts a buffoon....

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Fat Cat

Here lies a scoundrel, a fat cat.
He won’t stay fat where he is at… the dirty rat.
 
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 24, 2010

Poetic form:  Epigram...

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We thought he was a murdering scoundrel
We thought he had stolen old Webber’s horse.
No one was willing to listen to this stranger.
So we hanged another innocent man of course....

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There was an old lawyer named Ruth
Who didn't mind bending the truth.
No scoundrel too bad,
If money he had.
He'd have pled self defense for Wilkes Booth.

For Carolyn's
lawyer limerick Tied for no. 1...

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There was once a rotten scoundrel named Reid

   Who filched a horse in a moment of greed

      As the noose was secured

         His final words were heard

            I'd rather be fishin' today, indeed...

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The High Constable received quite a jolt

   When the nut he nabbed decided to bolt

      T'was discovered he muffed

         When the scoundrel he cuffed

            Worse yet, he fled on the Constable's colt...

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Only if you are the best in service
            of the good and the greatest in construction
            best for humanity...
            The biggest fool is despicable...
            The greatest among the scoundrels, is
            still a scoundrel......

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Both in you and both are together,
Solo isn’t a word for it,
Cruel world doesn’t have place for one of it,
Devil is better for scoundrel,
And so is an angel better for angels, 
Disney world ain’t real,
As soon as you believe it’s preferable for tranquility....

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Crime & Punishment
By 
Tom Wright

There once was a scoundrel called Black Bart,
Who thought appropriating bank money was smart.
Until the sheriff got wind,
And to his jail he did send,
When in court he begged the judge to have heart.
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life
expires
without signs...
his ghost's remnants
mirroring lesions of her mournful gaze,
tears pour out with unexpected  lament:
scoundrel of  hours
raking breath,
her nights
lost.


Broken Wings' Contest: Dust Off A Memory 
10/25/2017...

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“I weep at his words and you scowl.”
“what could be so troublesome my dear
that reading such, you’d shed a tear?”

“He writes of love quite flowery
sly hints about my dowry.

“Of a love he lost in the distant gloom.”
“of love notes tinged with another's perfume.”
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A scoundrel slithering all about.
Touting your own horn.
Immoral eccentricity.
Through prisms of false bravado.
A shallow soul.
Skeletons with no depth.
Humanitarian rights violations.
A skirmish of power.
Strong arming the weak.
Wrecked souls landing on the beach....

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Again from the shadows
Rises that scoundrel
Riding on envy
Armed with naked cynics
Dedicated not to betray
The Lord of hatred
For he is ordered
To scoff the adore
Yet he is unsure
About the shine that still hold
Eternal is the nature’s mystery
What comes in its way, becomes history....

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The verse-writer

A blind optimist outfits revealing insights galore
Thwarts the swirling world and faith restores
Aimless existence outwardly alchemizes
A scoundrel,a seraph and a lunatic in him domiciles

Yet,the poet secretes abysmal anguish in privacy
Does camouflage a mental deranged stability...

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MIXED    METAPHORS

It was my surprise   - decoration of her hallway
But someone told her
Let the cat out of the dog
And the wallpaper and paint mixture was
Dead  as  a dado
But if I find the scoundrel who told
He’ll be in a hearse of a different color



Entered in Debbie Guzzi ‘s Contest    “ Something Different”...

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two sentinels in winter
watch the frozen wheat field
spy the evil murderer
dragging his innocent victim
Nebraska ground is frozen
two curious crows watch
studying the two-legged miscreant
he shouts his aggravation to the wind
innocent victim is nonmoving
left at the foot of the fence post
two sentinels feel relief
when evil scoundrel leaves...

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Born of a cloth wrapped in fear and loathing

A dyed in the wool wolf in sheep's clothing

A scoundrel at heart for all here to see

No sacrifice made or hero to be

A braggart that speaks only tongue and cheek

A coward at best that preys on the weak

What goes around comes around without a sound 

So when the time comes lies dead on the ground...

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dear change,
i've seen you here before
scratching scoundrel
itching with mange-
the undomesticated mutt.
charmed, finessed (i am
the butt of your joke) (you
are the ash to my smoke)
dear change,
loop swoop pull & 
push- peering thru the
burning bush, all
teehees & cracking
leaves; oh dear
change, i only want to 
ask, will you share
whatever's in your
flask?...

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What are you doing? I asked Little Lee.
I am sewing a new heart, said she with glee.
What is wrong with the old one? Asked I.
It left with a scoundrel, a mean kind of guy.

So you just sew up a new one? I asked with surprise.
Sure, she said. Come see with your hazel eyes.
She was creating a new heart. It said “Jimmy and me.”
We invited him to come visit us that day for tea....

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innocents throw snowballs at traffic

whiz to the past, where

a parent would receive their little scoundrel

and a swift scolding. . .


swiftly we return to present day

where the payout for a child’s slight:


sadly it’s raining bullets

and the innocents fall

like Autumn leaves

red and pale


a cold call

a siren blares

life’s not fair!


1/7/2020...

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He is a scoundrel, a mutt, a con-man, a sleaze.
Keep talking I think.
I love bad boys!

He’ll hurt you, he will not fit in, he is the worst.
I could find something off the street better than that for you.
Sure, you know me better than I know myself.

He has a horrible reputation.
He will break your heart; he is not the one.
I scoff but say nothing, secretly thinking he might be....

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The dirty old man that I have become
Likes them pretty and likes them young
Once they get a look at my wallet size
Their need for handsome they compromise

I just can’t seem to get enough
They deliver my Viagra in a truck
The hot tub is full of naked babes
If you’re more than thirty, then you’re over-aged

I’m a dirty, rotten scoundrel, or so they say
But they’d trade places with me on any day...

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Why "Sharp Gate"? 

Yesterday, my postman asked the very question you are asking me now.  Well, I named my house after the famous gate in Vilnius.  It might make a local burgler think twice.  After all, a sharp gate will give the scoundrel a nasty wound.  

The postman's face! I should have had a camera.


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sharp gate and a growl

then jaws on gasping thief

great dane well done



3/5/2023...

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