Short Sycophants Poems

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


Premium Member Bootlickers

   Sycophants calculate 'syc'
     Authority's boots they lick

   Masters of the clever and slick
     Their every maneuver, politic
Form: Monorhyme


Reputation, Splattered

The victims' blood is violently splattered,
As his reputation is totally shattered.
Sycophants to the hills have all scattered,
What happened in the past really mattered.
© Mick Free  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Cause Celeb

Cause Celeb
24/08/2018


Is celebrity really curse

Spending wads of cash in your purse

Sycophants ready to please

They wipe your butt if you sneeze

At Twenty Seven dead in a hearse
Form: Limerick

3 Card Monte

Gather your false prophets
and sycophants
 Bury your heads
in the deepest sand

Tell the same lies
 as you sing to the choir
 Slave to the mirror
—and sleight of hand

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Cry Uncle

We are the ants
    who march into
      your pantry
  as well as your pants

  We are the ants
    who stealthy advance
      do a snake dance
  then eat up your plants

  For we are ants
    not sycophants
      your Devastation
  ~ our gleeful bromance
Form: Rhyme


Hole in my heart

A suppurating crater
festers and gapes
in my heart
desiccated by hordes
of plunderers
who gorge on marrow
enshrouded in crevices
where love pleads
for refuge and succour
before gelid goons
controlling a pedigree
of sycophants
reframed to shield
their masters
from imagined devilry.

The Democracy Lark

The sweet song of the democracy lark
Once told of a bright and hopeful dawn
Now there is only a strident bark
And the whimper of sycophants that fawn
And worship the Trump, and his massive wad
Lovers of money, with racist views
Vote for Mammon’s dodgy God!
The democracy lark is singing the blues

© Gail Foster 2016
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Frets About Pets

Much ado about nothing, I say, 
Such nonsense made of Major’s poop 
Touch not the precious White House furniture, or, 
Lunch on leg of Secret Service nincompoop. 

Sad, for four long years, no White House pets 
Bad reviews for majestic canine occupants 
Add swipes at new First Lady’s Spanish 
Glad POTUS does not yet need sycophants.
Form: Lento

Premium Member just sayin’

big  spin
  win   again
     in   like   Flynn

hodgepodge   dodge
   slash   bash 
  mishmash 

sycophants
   chants   rants
  seat-of-the-pants

riff-raff
   grift   graft
   craft

debate   obfuscate
   obligate
   alienate

annoy     enjoy
      deploy  
 destroy

curtail   assail 
     derail …
         pray tell ?
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Czar and His Fawning Sycophants

The Czar’s happily fawning sycophants,
Threw flattery onto him like a cloak.
Marched in his rallies like S.S. ants.
Lackeys, bootlicks, and lickspittles. Ain’t no joke!

Surrounded him with compliments and affection.
Foolhardy Emperor was so incredibly pleased no doubt.
Incredulously thought he had won the election!
Until he sneezed and a four-year-old called him out.

Premium Member Sycophants At the Soup




Definition..one who uses obsequious compliments, 
to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another. 



P…parasites who want payback
H..harmful  hucksters, hedonists
O…obsessive, offenders, outlandish 
N..nebulous, narcisstic, nuisances 
I….impetuous imbeciles, imposing
E..egocentrical, entangling, enemies
S…support-savages, so selfish!


              4/ 23/2023

Form: Acrostic

Truth In America

Real disaster is looming on the horizon for American life 

this country’s leadership disdains the spirit of truth 

its sycophants continue to embrace the lies

repelled by honesty and facts

mendacity guides their daily mantra

dark, evil poltergeists dwell in our White House now

death thrives in their hearts 

darkness looms in our future

the only purification for lies is to vote

it's the only remedy that will

undo this undemocratic fiasco

Indignant

well, you're indignant as hell
at his slavish hunger for praise,
demanding and grabbing credit
for deeds that were never his;

at his sense of infallibility,
his utter inability to brook
criticism or own up an error,
concealing his own mistakes;

at his unabashed preference
for yes-men and sycophants
who never give a no or maybe
for an answer to his demands;

but he's the voters' choice,
your raging rants don't sell,
and, yes, his lapdogs rejoice,
and you're indignant as hell.

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