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Smarm Poems - Poems about Smarm

Premium MemberEchoes in Silk

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Written: July 17, 2025, for contest by Joseph May

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Silk voice ties the tunes of the throng
As you play the chill, snake-hands song
Void d...
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Categories: smarm, appreciation, heart, lost love,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberLove Thaws in Winter Embrace

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Written: February 03, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Charles Messina
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This clock let forth one painful scream
Bliss time shrank, as a ...
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Categories: smarm, love, winter,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberRapture

...The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
Joseph Campbell

A calm, unpretentious, breathtaking connection,
A hypnotic glimpse of Z...
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Categories: smarm, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rubaiyat

Premium MemberRebel Hens: Escape To the Picture Show

...The hens from our small, urban farm,
Had wild idea, caused great fright:
Escape their pen, come to no harm,
See a show, without a blight.

With feathers ruffling at benight,
They made p...
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Categories: smarm, animal, appreciation, funny, repetition,
Form: Rondeau Redouble

Premium MemberSplit Wide Open

...In quiet, space breaks down into insight.
Opposing the edge amidst deceit and blight.
Imperceptible resonation is reflected back.
On a hunch, or at the stroke of night track.

A leth...
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Categories: smarm, analogy, character, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberWandering Ethereal Glow

...Breathing on the strings of the heart
Confronted by a swarm of wings wert.
Swinging melody on your glass tightrope.
Like a pendulum swung in a chasm of hope.

 Much like Saturday eve...
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Categories: smarm, analogy, angst, character, cute
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberOf Infinity

...On the exquisite wings of fated infinity.  
We move with subtle elegance and fluidity.
To sail into odd space on a vessel of silence.
It is clearly the domain of the swanky credence...
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Categories: smarm, allegory, analogy, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Dead Poets

...He took his leave of this world 
with the truth on his lips
while soaking in that warm bath in Paris
where he had flown to pursue a new path
having been forced to publish his poetry himself
beca...
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Categories: smarm, death, money, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSong of Spring Flowers

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"Roses rooted in the earth
Bud in rhyme and verses sage
Lilies laugh at joyous birth
Strewn across the patterned page"

Marigolds whisper their charm
By scripting a soft story
Daisies sw...
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Categories: smarm, beautiful, flower, poetry, spring,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRecounting Wounding Costs

...I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.

I remember learning curious distincti...
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Categories: smarm, caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings,
Form: Political Verse

A Sweet Little Lie

...I struggle to tell her this truth,
I consult with her pleasing smile.
Woe is a world where flaws exist,
As stains breed until flavors amend.
She hears me mince through fearful smarm,
Pandora hop...
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Categories: smarm, confusion, funny, hope, muse,
Form: Free verse

My Rock, My Twin Lynne

...My rock, my Twin Lynne

Laura and Lynne
Not two, but one, twin
From the start, in the womb
Sharing time, past the tomb
The yang to her yen

The right to my wrong
Harmonious in song
The ligh...
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Categories: smarm, best friend, family, growing
Form: Rhyme

Agga Aggrey

...He was once a well-built youth wielding young power
That waned little by little with every advancing hour,
Those days his upheld gait scared both man and beast,
Very stout and with less manly thin...
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Categories: smarm, love,
Form: Rhyme

She Dont Know

...She's so captivating that she has my eyes wide like a hawk
  But as always I'm contemplating maybe she thinks I'm a dork
  I never quite know what to say to her and mutter every word
  Everything ...
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Categories: smarm, write,
Form: Rhyme

Glamour, Glamour, Glamour

...Glamour, glamour, glamour!
Where does it come from?
What does it form?
At first I thought it comes from French.
But no! In Scottish is the wrench.
In old days it meant proper grammar,
Today it’...
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Categories: smarm, social,
Form: Free verse

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