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Shysters Poems - Poems about Shysters

The End Is Near
...One day the sun will rise only so far, the earth will rotate but only slowly, the elephants, whales, and jungle cats will call out to each other, rats and snakes will dive deeper into their skin......

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Categories: shysters, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Is No Picnic
...Christmas in the desert is different you see. If there is a sandstorm, the camel rolls into a C. The presents get buried and may never be found. A desert Christmas is probably not the best around.......

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Categories: shysters, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A New Start For America
...Out with infighting and lack of general respect, Let’s restore our Congressional reputation Rank partisanship and grandstanding While padding their own coffers, I expect! Let’s rid o......

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Categories: shysters, america, goodbye, perspective, political,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Outlaws
...The best artists are outlaws Vandalizing our sanctity, Our sanctimonious freight trains, Our parsimonious neglect. The best artists are culprits Chiseling our school desks, Scraping our bathr......

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Categories: shysters, allusion, art, bible, extended
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Some Unsolicited Advice
...Turn off the alarm before you unlatch, Don't count your chickens before they hatch No two snowflakes, they say, ever match Sneaky shysters are very hard to catch, Don't ruin torn jeans with a bra......

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Categories: shysters, humor, perspective,
Form: Monorhyme



The Eagle Survives
...In this tumultuous political climate I find both parties irrelevant and obsolete They do not speak to me or my families’ needs Neither do they consider our suffering Day after day immigrants......

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Categories: shysters, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Double Your Moolah
...Start with a penny, double your money each day Takes 27 days to become a millionaire, they say Who are these “they” guys And how come they're so wise Real shysters, it can't be true, no w......

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Categories: shysters, surreal,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Double Your Moolah
...Start with a penny, double your money each day Takes 27 days to become a millionaire, they say Who are these “they” guys And how come they're so wise Real shysters, it can't be true, no w......

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Categories: shysters, money,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Double Your Moolah
...Start with a penny, double your money each day Takes 27 days to become a millionaire, they say Who are these”they” guys Got gunk in their eyes Real shysters, it can't be true, no way!!!<>...

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Categories: shysters, fantasy,
Form: Limerick
Joys
...21 Aug 2017 - Sonnet When all the joys you ever chased in life were bait that NEVER came without a hook - high-market hucksters charming you with fifes that drove thirst mad (and all done by th......

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Categories: shysters, culture,
Form: Sonnet
Perspective
...If mosquitoes ate fat instead of blood there would be rows of overweight people laying out at night like beached whales coated in oily attractants hoping they present a savoury snack soon sa......

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Categories: shysters, abuse,
Form: Free verse
To Tell the Truth
...The truth has experienced a hard time these days With alternative facts, distorted reality twittering in viscous ways You would expect down right good sense to somehow prevail As common sense is ......

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Categories: shysters, political, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
18 Brumaire
...(On November 9, 1799 Napoleon Buonaparte launched his coup d'etat in Paris. It made him a dictator, and corrupted him beyond salvation. 18 Brumaire was the date of the coup, by the revolutionar......

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Categories: shysters, history,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Dating Game
...If you like adventure you will like Match.com, But many of them you won’t want to take home to meet your Mom. Each guy you see is a brand new slate. It's like an interview, looking for a potential......

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Categories: shysters, boyfriend, computer, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Political Scatology
...Thankfully, the mid-term elections have come and went. Thankfully, we'll suffer no more TV ads related to that event. Thankfully, we'll not receive any more phone calls from politicians. Thankfu......

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Categories: shysters, humorous, political,
Form: Couplet

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