Get Your Premium Membership

Snake Oil Poems - Poems about Snake Oil

Snake Oil Poems - Examples of all types of poems about snake oil to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for snake oil.
Try mumbo jumbo chicken gumbo soup saith dumbo
...Try mumbo jumbo chicken gumbo soup saith dumbo Yours truly an unfortunate hostage within *****sapien zoo presenting poetic hodge podge and mish mash to you looking for unwitting subject(s) to......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, america, appreciation, april, food,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member a pied piper on steroids
...Threats of blood baths easily roil Cult members whose sentiments boil Devotees tribal Shall get D.T.’s bible Soiled with drizzles of snake oil......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, america, anger, christian, innocence,
Form: Limerick
Rough Draft part2
... Soak in the palmolive snake oil tonic. The cool stalk of my ebonics on hydroponics. Get stuck in the matrix of my convicts, of hooker phonics. Get high off of my knock off water on the br......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, art,
Form: Lyric
Prologue 8 Ouija
... Gus didn't have the original pointer that came with the Ouija, so he used an extra Indian feather, since it came from a real Indian, it may prove to be advantageous. Since Indians were ......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, art,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Another Chapter of Milton Creek
...With pitchforks and torches they rode through the night, their goal was Milton Creek, by dawns early light. A surprise attack was what they had foreseen, led by the infamous, lollipop queen. Wi......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, western,
Form: Rhyme



Winnowing Winds
...No winds are winnowing enough To put a quill back in the hands of the dead poet Or confidence back in the trachea of the strangled speaker In me Because no words are as vile As no words at all ......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Day By Day
...My belief in happiness through another human being has left me jaded. Breakfast in bed turned into flowers for the dead of a relationship that once bloomed. I prostituted my worth for a dance with ......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snake Oil Man In Milton Creek
...It was about seven in the morn as the sun was starting to rise Unbeknown to the folks of Milton Creek they were in for a surprise Outside the saloon wagons were unloading, before noondays heat ......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, america, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Laughter
...Laughter Laughter knocks on the doors of tragedy selling snake oil. Its remedy has no cure, but the symptoms from consuming its liqueur are delightful. There are all sorts of......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, celebration, cheer up, games,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snake Oil Salesmen
...The Duke and the Dauphin two snake-oil salesmen in 'Huck Finn' chased by folks brandishing paddles with nails ridden plum out of the county on a rail... Joseph R. Biden and Donald......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, humor, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Protective Lyricism For the Ages Part Two
...Protective Lyricism for the Ages Part Two Martin Luther King creating a path to dessimate discrimination  An angel earning his wings from an epiphany of prophetic elation  Listening to Ella Fit......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dumbfoundedness Still Prevails Three Weeks Later
...Dumbfoundedness still prevails three weeks later... when held spellbound courtesy grifter Flim-flam man left lasting emotional whiplash his derelict perfected artifice to hijack every last cent......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, 12th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Self Elected Puppets
...Where are the medicine men and women we could always trust Have they all disappeared turned into dust Replaced by snake oil salesmen dishing out pills Hear the ringing of their over filled tills......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snake Oil
...cosmeceutical hawkers put on new faces… costly old potions......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, image,
Form: Senryu
Keep the Lid On
...Keep the Lid On There is no reason to throw away years of progress for a momentary, fit of anger, you will not obtain a profit from rioting in the street, Do not play into the hands......Read the rest...
Categories: snake oil, america,
Form: Blank verse

Related Poems


Book: Shattered Sighs