Short Tabloid Poems

Tabloid articles
Why do they clog the conscious?
Make them go away...

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Today's April Fools
And your pants are on fire.
Front page Tabloid news
Prying minds do Enquire....

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Trump's Security Clearance is void
And a Florida judge is annoyed
She wanted to see
How Trump's latest plea
Shifts the blame to an FBI droid...

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I guess you can only use a rag so long
before you're left with a tabloid

(I think this was actually a comedian's joke years ago if I remember correctly)...

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Trump and Terrible Tabloid

What the most  we always want to avoid,
Is a terrible thing that they call a tabloid;
Not clever;
Buy never;
Wherever we have seen it do try to avoid.

Jim Horn...

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Had she looked back at me
Even for just a second ...
Our encounter might have been the stuff of tabloid frenzy. 
But she left quickly a coffee in one hand, 
A shopping bag in the other,
And I waited for my turn next in line....

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You see,

There we're 3 in this marriage

From the start

A future king in waiting

The people's princess

And the tabloid paparazzi press

But in the end

5 if you count the 2 young boy's

Prince's William and Harry

A royal flush

Minus the queen...

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Yeah.
Bought the ring
Tutti Frutti
Five-karat bling.

Toast a brew
We had a drink
Big scandal grew
Felt the cold sting.

Face tabloid news
Waiting till spring.
Winter time choose 
A Double will fling.

Blue Gucci shoes
Songbird can sing.
Ten years gone past
Didn't mean a thing.

Whole Truth
Without spin
Both lose
Nobody wins....

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England's knighted ~ Sir Elton John
Singer of songs like the classic, Levon
Genius pianist, known for tabloid strife
Still standing with David, the love of his life.



By Rhonda Johnson- Saunders, January 26, 2012
My first attempt at a clerihew. I hope I did it right!


Ninth Place finish in Clerihew / Collaboration double contest...

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We treat face book like a shrink
but it's nothing but a cheap tabloid rag
truth be damned, we vomit out anything
our dirty laundry for all the world to see...
cyber cowards can't talk it out face to face
slandering loved ones-pandering to strangers
gathering a wolf pack-attacking relentlessly
until there's no more blood to drink
from the tattered family tree...

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Jenny, they say,
will face a tragedy.
Is it not something always
predicted this way?

Will it be Jenny?
Or Pete or Paul?
We glance every day among
those tabloid papers - so many.

We read headlines, blink,
then another front page;
or see this or that on TV.
Yes, we tut-tut.

We always go
this self-same way.
You reach an advanced age.
So so.

Ah yes,
so so.


(written Sep 2022; posted Jan 2023)...

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Premiered at The Panic Room, Shreveport, LA – 11/25/2006
			      
ACT 1

Bed of Nails
Typically Brueghel
Got To Be Blue, Boy
State of the Onion
My Cynical Career
Damage Control

ACT 2

The Same Damn Thing
Elfreth’s Alley
The Death of Rock and Roll
Bwana Wanna Boogie
Supermarket Tabloid Blues
Poison Pen

ACT 3

Carnivore
Commentary
Refugee Rain 
A Typical Day in Hell
I Don’t Want To Go to Heaven...

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Eavesdrop into my ear the sweet nectar that I hear
Who did what to whom? I need to know how this ends
It fulfils me
I'll just sit and listen, don't you worry for I wont intrude
I hear subtle tones of welcoming for which you elude to
I'll steal your stories as I steal glances
Hoarding them
I work alone though others are in on it too
An audible tabloid for all to hear
Hear ye hear ye
I hear you and so can this whole subway...

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Call yourself a journalist ?

I very much doubt you could even spell the word correctly

The devil's in the tabloid detail

Gossip and fake news

And how many time's a lie is read

So i remind you of the cold hard facts

You couldn't write a truthful story 

If it stabbed you in the back

Your reputation proceeds you and is both earned and well deserved

As you are the answer to the question ?

What is the difference between a reporter
and a hack ?

P.M is not a pseudonym...

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