Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

My Most Powerful Pet Hate Is Unkindness

Unkindness is
My most powerful pet hate
Possibly my only one

This includes 
meanness, unfairness, rape, murder,
cruelty to animals, impoliteness,
disrespect, theft, swearing and bad manners
Unless I am really in the swearing mood and no one is around.

I hear you laughing, my sworn enemy.
Oops! Was that unkind? Dhramn!
Disrespect, disdain, disregard, and disapproval
all fit under this umbrella.

Whipping children with yardsticks,
flyswatters, switches, and belts, and leaving
animals tied up outside to die also fit under there

Unkindness is my only pet hatred.  
People who are hurting the most have
endured one unkindness or another
I am sorry I called you my sworn enemy
Can I now be your sworn friend? When you
laughed at me you hurt me.  
This also told me that someone has been
unkind to you. Do you want to talk about it?



Poetry contest: It Really Gets me Going 
Sponsor: Kevin Shaw
Written May 19, 2019

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Panagiota Romios May 19, 2019 at 2:22 PM Goid luck in the contest. We are both in the same one. Am rooting for both og us. The world offers more than its share of unkindness...terrible Panagiota Caren Krutsinger May 19, 2019 at 5:05 PM It is sad how much there is; and why do we share it? Why not just take it into the woods, kill it and bury it?