Underhanded Poems | Examples


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Premium Member The cancer grows

Spreading ugly lies and gossip
You made a career of ruining lives
Many only happy to conspire



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Hostile Helper Phillip

Tamper with her phone, primary income 
        Sugar site no longer accessible 
        Selfish intentions drove his decision 
        Turned to last resort substitute, Bumble 


         Rapid response, invite to restaurant 
         Simply served as practice and a nice meal
         Revelations compiling impressed her
         Chivalrous, frequently announced fond feel
   
         
        Presented online as a mere sales rep
        Below standard for her high status aim
        Her lease nearly up, he drove move in step
        Surreptitious inventor, numbers game

     
        She didn't suspect his sweetness supreme 
        Relished via Phil's evil intervene






        29th March
        Unscrupled Meddler
        Turned my trajectory in June 2022

Underhanded Attempts

underhanded 
attempts 
meant to
act as a 
means to 
an end 
just ended 
up to bring 
about the 
proverbial 
end of everything 
that was once 
established within 
this reality


Underhanded

Itching for perfection
in a world that can't define what it means.
Searching for stability
in an unstable world.
The game is set up
for you to lose, long before you started playing.
But at least your being entertained,
while you stand there
being robbed.
It's useless to keep anything,
you can't take it with you.
you're left here to die.
Continue to smile while everyone
feeds you lies.

The Underhanded

In the shadows moving with stealth
Preying on the weak his adrenalin to his health.
A vile slithering serpent, an agenda to bring harm
Beware the snare of his extended arm

The doer of evil, the maker of hate
The spreader of vicious  rumors.always on his plate
A spinning Web of lies,,to reel in the naive
A creator of falsehoods,,to twist what you 
 believe.

So keep your guard up high, protect your fragile heart
From this monsters clutches before he tears you apart.
And to you the pretender you know who you are
Karma will find you it knows who you are.

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