Tawdry Poems | Examples

Scene, While Away, 2

Background B.B King it

You'll get home alone

A Quartering as Jazz
As quart and liter
As meter and mile 
Footage and reconcile

Irish Quartermasters Gaurd

Kevin J. O'Meadhra

Trace as feather
Low of ash
Bury of quill
Fide et amore

Nightingales Ergo
Send in rot
Further, borrow
Scottish wreathing
Entangled Britain
Relent



They of leave
Twined as lecture
Recital of yellow
Beckon brown
Revile of green
Tustled hearth


Baby babysit looks like
It's gonna hail
Jump and jive

As sent to the SAG

In tawdry spent
The war is lent

The establishment of thy own 
A hate filled thrown
As crimes as thine
Tinkle and toast

In a entire
Only as pure
The picture as haunt
Plagiarism 
Stores front
Sufferer as complaint
In stilled poverty 
I law

Joan had little art
Lythed command
Hinde weeps rather as waltz
Herculean task
Wardrobe mantle black

Opening Suggestion of Betrothed

Premium Member Orchids If You Please

True highbrows can't hear commoner's pleas
Stuck sitting on their swanky settees
Status fades as affluence recedes
I'd prefer pink orchids if you please

Elitists applaud wealthy reprise
Fake posers deceive masses with ease
Think that they deserve all that they seize
So send purple orchids if you please

Fools imagine themselves on marquees
Those who would toss it all to the breeze
Who can't see the forest for the trees
Bring me more red red orchids if you please

Cultures erode when no one agrees
Innocence shrinks slowly by degrees
Fairness appears a tawdry tease
I sigh for white orchids if you please

Feel for the needy brought to their knees
My selfish world of ten thousand mes
Flowers fail as empty pleasantries
Making these moments mere niceties
Form: Monorhyme


Costa Del Essex?

Their ma & pa were Eastenders 

Blah blah..don’t remember the Blitz

Brash Cockney pretenders..same flash apparel

Let's get our mitts on a stash of Aperol spritz


Dimwits just going on benders

Bawdy tawdry mockney skits

Gits getting off their t*ts

Twits showing off their bits

Who fits?..Identikit Brits..pout

All about the clout of gaudy glitz


Silhouettes of stiletto dancers & handbags

Riff raff as naff as an 80’s cornetto

Perms & permatans..sl*gs..fancy dans in glad rags

Rhyming slang falsetto twang libretto


Chancers on a stag..s*ag nip & tuck hags

Nags of WAGS made up to the nines

Brag after cocaine lines did blag

One snag..look like a dag in drag


All from the fashion label stable

No restraint.. cannot refrain

Grandstand the brands fable 

Diadora diaspora ..Fila Villa

With a Pierre Cardin Jardin

Taint just like they do in Spain


Sex..success…the way you dress

Prosecco fizz...getting in a tizz

Gilded specs and builded pecs


Greed and that need to impress

Avoid don't feed this schadenfreude hell 

That is indeed called Costa Del ESSEX
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member perfect storm

from the forest deep she came
      like one jaguar gently prowling
         drawn there by my late-day flame
   typhoon in the distance howling

black hair with a coal-blue sheen
      eyes like ink that shimmered golden
         linen sun dress white and clean
   tawdry tan with charms embolden

white-cap sea foam licked the sun
      softly tasted sweet its brightness
         melting ‘pon that briny tongue
   sav'ring still the fading lightness

there beside those aqua oceans
      palm fronds laid beneath the moon
         with sublime and torrid motions
   we let loose our fleshed typhoon

high above the Perseids streaming
      wept those skies bright tears of fire
         wishes granted - we thus dreaming
   meant for fools to quite inspire

flightless angel birthed of darkness
      wrapped me with her pinions warm
         sacred embers - cold and sparkless
   lost within that summer’s form ...

lost in her - my perfect storm.

* did you notice the change in metre? *
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member This one's for Blue'

I used to say come to London.' Yet not now.' The violence
Is spiralling.' There is less value wow.' Not of tawdry glam
And glitz and such.' Yet of life.. and futures they don't seem
Worth that much.' I know Blues familiy.' No nonsense folk
Now living a nightmare.' Delivered by the social enrichment
Joke.' In 'sad-diks london...Or londinistan.? Its violence in
The morning.' Afternoon, evenings.' Who's the next target?
There must be a plan.? As it seems systemic yet some dystopian
Action
Slam.' Against the values that have endured.' Through times
Hourglass sands.' As Christianity has been mocked indeed
Reviled.' So has lawlesness exploded.' Perceptions run wild.'
Rampant violence.' Has entered Englands womb.. And things arn't quiet..Nor will they be anytime soon.'  Will there
Be justice by the authouritys.? The people require redress.'
Just look back three decades..It was never like this mess.!!!
If you live in Britain.' I advise raise your voice.' Or perhaps a
Finger or two .? Email inspector Christina Jessah.' Let the reckoning start with you.'
Form: Rhyme


Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks

Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks (tongue in cheek peek at Dunedin's historic deluge)


"Stares upstairs..

Angels’ weeing above..

Be a good chap..

Show some love bruv..

Turn off the tap..

*****
No refuge from the subterfuge of the deluge..

Parched sandbag phalanxes..

Ranks marching in flanks..

Arching across busted banks..

Quaffing..scoffing..downpour spanks..

**********
Disbelief at the leisurely river Leith..

Despairing at it baring...glaring..teeth

Hurling....haring to unsheaf grief..

Mischief rashly unfurling…

Brashly whirling beneath.

Bawdry..tawdry thief...

******
Baffled..can't they see...squiffy South D in a jiffy downed..

Snaffled..drowned and raffled to the sea..

Don't they care...iffy white caps slaps..won't perhaps spare even sniffy..

Snooty..spiffy St Clair..

****
This rain ruckus.. pluvial palaver...

Whichever not whatever...

It totally sucks..

Planet forever in..

Fluvial flummoxed flux..

Tis rather lovely weather..

Though for Dunedin's ducks.."
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member she was outrageously glitzy and gaudy

She was purposefully brazen, garish and flashy
Daughter of Lee, who owned a haberdashery
Her outfits were razzle dazzle, glaringly loud
That’s my daughter, her daddy bragged to the crowd

People lined up to gawk to see what she would wear
Some of them made fun of her ensemble, but she did not care
Others yelled mean things to her – vulgar and tawdry
She loved being known as outrageous, glitzy and gaudy
Form: Rhyme

ditto blockin

They use lifes language
Wild that leaves me a divisive endorphin
Weathering veins rotted in paint
I ain’t throw in labor on it
One step up to my flawed character’s
Droopy’s tall comparative literature balks back
Tinsel in tawdry condition
And aft,?
Pause me apostrophe, young to effect safety

Check writers, cost long painful memory
Hostage of poverty
Cold war controversy
Big world drums and no cents
Mid day news in piercing loss
Not worth the screwy drip? I am
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member knobs and levers

This poem was mused by:
"Shakespeare won't look at me" by ThomasW.Case
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We fill our lives with work and stress
in the lust for new possessions
we're taught that this is called success
and it makes for good impressions

But pleasures we’re taught to suppress
so our souls will fly up to the heavens
but this flesh that god has gifted us
are our only true possessions

If we find ourselves casually undre$$ed
which is frankly, our natural condition
and if s3xual needs should be addressed
there’s no need for tawdry confessions

for pleasure is something to be expressed
if we’re alone or in a marvelous coalition
So I wish you satisfaction in el@tions quest
as you work the knobs, slants and levers
because this isn’t some kind of competition

P.S. Will Shakespeare was familiar with m@sturb@tion's guilty thrills.
"The expense of spirit, in a waste of shame is lust in action"
.
.
For a contest. This poem was mused by:
"Shakespeare won't look at me" by Thomas_W._Case © Anais Vionet
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A song for this:
Flowers by Miley Cyrus
Form: Rhyme

The Mouse with the Hat

Once upon a time
I saw a gentlemouse with a hat sublime.
The richest mouse I’d ever seen, his hat a present from the queen
He was quite close with the queen he said, now that the king, her husband was dead
I have a secret he whispered with glee
The queen has promised to marry me!
The gorgeous hat he wore around was to be replaced by a crown.
I was so surprised by this tawdry fact, I completely forgot to ask
Was this a mouse queen of which I did not know?
Or had Queen Elizabeth a mousey Beaux?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Slaughterers of Souls

    Slaughterers of anonymous souls
       Windows displaying tawdry tales of woe

    Flashing neon lights restraining human kindness ~
       Cities grind humanity into sausage for politicians & moles

Premium Member Samson and Delilah

'Twas a tawdry affair that trifles pittance fare,

A Qualified Judge.
~0~
Allied With Grudge.
~0~
Pride Did Smudge.
~0~
Backslide By Nudge.
~0~
Denied To Rejudge.
~0~
Teary-Eyed No Budge.
~0~
"FORGIVENESS"
"Implied?" ... "Theorized!"

"Her fate has already been decided ..."
"... and what of me ...?"
"Your fate will be defined."
Form: Vaasokht

Grey Angel

In the woods lurks the grey angel;
Wingless and disillusioned, he awaits
The onset of diarrhoea,
Bismarck’s jocular displeasure
And the seagull’s lugubrious weightlessness –
Later than previously, he erects
A flag made of wormwood
Brought all the way
From the ceiling of an underground café in East Berlin -
He sighs….and it is like someone playing
A musical saw: it expresses harmoniously
His perpendicular musical soul –
Expecting nothing, he is perpetually disappointed
By the visitations of crones desirous of petty miracles,
Of repentant tax-gatherers requesting absolution,
On New-Age moongazers seeking enlightenment,
Of people who desire certainty, answers,
Of people who pursue truth and self-righteousness,
Of people who just want to see what an angel,
Any angel looks like. Only these curious rubbernecks
Touch his bland and ironic soul with a faint luminosity –
Their enthusiasm for life, if crass and tawdry,
At least provides the salt which otherwise
Has lost its flavour….a pity
That it just rubs salt into his wounds.

Premium Member Female Footle Slang Names: Part 1

No Alice in Wonderland

Callous
Alice

Sacrificial Lamb

Blame me
Amy

Fan of the Panda Bear

Andie 
Pandie

Miss Hollywood

Star Queen
Arlene

The Trifling One

Petty
Betty

One Gorgeous Redhead

Henna
Brenna

Miss Sophisticated

Classy
Cassie

Not so Sophisticated

Gassy
Cassie

Miss Detective

Police
Clarice

Fragile: Treat with Care

China
Dinah

Miss Flamboyant

Showy
Chloe

The Lesser of the Flamboyant ones

Tawdry
Audrey

The Laggard

Lazy
Daisy

The Imprudent One

Folly
Dolly

Stars in her Eyes

Eileen
Sky Queen

Earth Girl

Terra
Farrah
Form: Footle

Premium Member The Mind of a Poet

My thoughts conjure up witty words
that merge and converge in my mind;
like a murmuration of birds.

Feelings get released and aligned;
forming a poem line by line,
in which tawdry rhymes get refined.

My muse claims the poem is mine;
but that is not entirely true,
She supplies the polish and shine.

I was mute till She found my voice;
and imbued my poetic pen
with rhythm and rhyme; I had no choice.

I'm like a child in a playpen
whose imagination's free
to wonder every now and then.

My talent is God's gift to me;
expounding on the truths I see.

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