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Trumpfoolery Skullduggery

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time—Lincoln

Truth’s a slow lumbering giant
As his fools remain compliant
Lies bite and scurry
To a clueless jury
Nurtured to be spoiled and defiant

Categories: skullduggery, satire,
Form: Limerick

Discretion

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
 be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer." 
Psalm 19:14

Discretion drives an unpredictable wedge
into sheltered, relaxed, indiscreet lives.
Its thunder designs to whet the cutting edge
of thinking which stays safely in the archives
of routine – same-o grungy words and garbage.

An

Categories: skullduggery, 11th grade, muse, word
Form: Dizain

Skullduggery

  Hands shaking, heartbeats racing,
Trembling knees, tears hiding beneath.
A whisper of cold, numbing despair
Silently, desperately creeping in.
Staring on the wall of masks and confusion;
Trying to figure out: why, how, what's wrong?
Left with the uncertainty of guilt and hatred.
The once free-spirited, innocent soul,
Got lost in the fake world she didn't envision. 
The supposed flourishing seed

Categories: skullduggery, relationship, sad, satire, violence,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Skullduggery

Did time stop to ask
if it broke your gentle heart,
to depart so soon?

Date: 24th October 2021
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Title: Skullduggery

Categories: skullduggery, heartbroken,
Form: Haiku

Skullduggery

Over and over there's evidence of the same old story
People giving up their honor when tempted by greed
Seeking fame, fortune and their perception of glory
when they already have much more than they need.

It's a tale of skullduggery about those who are blind
to how they take advantage of those who are weak.
It tells of what it

Categories: skullduggery, angst, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Skullduggery

"At Skullduggery our aim is to make this fossil history available to everyone"
said the curator of a very prestigious wax museum, built in nineteen forty one 
all of our replicas are cast from original pieces obtained from other museums
such as the Paris crystal skull, which is hidden in Paris behind the mausoleum
it was used in

Categories: skullduggery, age, art, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Skullduggery

True loves knows 

no
deceit
cover-up
skullduggery
tricks

 Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For: Pick-A-Title, Vol 26 - Poetry Contest
Title chosen: Skullduggery
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Date: October 12, 2021

Categories: skullduggery, love,
Form: Lanterne

Recipe For Skullduggery

cravings, like niggling whispers,
flit on covered tables
skitter on the floorboards
shiver nerves like humming cables

racing up my backbone
trembling spinal pathways
as I dive for pantry's knob
in a glucose fired craze

tearing through the shelving
jumping for the flour
cracking eggs like gunshots
batter stacked like sugar'd towers

but wait! oh, no! there's something wrong
a final crucial piece!
recipe's cruel words laugh off the

Categories: skullduggery, humor,
Form: I do not know?