Backhanded Poems - Poems about Backhanded

I Am

...A believer in God
killing babies fun fun fun
rape, well I blame all sides

Forgive
my hate
and ignorance
and silence when it maters

I have traveled no where
have no conscience
love those ...

Dog face

...They looked at me with doubt
The light had long gone out
I was long past my prime
Ripples in a pond subside over time

"That's him?", an onlooker thought it odd
"Yes" his brother said, "I swear...

What I Really Wanted To Say

...
And I quote "You're so well spoken; I loved your story" end quote 
I hear that once about every other week at the current rate
But what I really wanted to say in response was: oh, you mean for a ...

The Name's Illness, Mental Illness

...The faceless name of stigma
with more eyes than not
go side steps and looks
there, media begot

Whose singing and slur
with stick and with stone
the backhanded harm
confiding to home

With ...

White Lie Birds

...Backhanded compliments are meant to disturb
Yet on surface pretend to be a polite white bird

Giving fake hazel humor or slighted cranberry concern
When the person pretending to teach needs to le...

VPL

...Can you see my VPL through this dress?
Hold on till I look out the window.
What you looking at.
I’m searching for the spaceship.
Is that your idea of a joke.
Hey, you’re the one speaking Klingon...

Vampires and Mosquitos

...Vampires and Mosquitos, they’re both out for blood each in their own way, one sucks the life out of you and the other just wants a taste
But when it pertains to love there is a big difference betwee...

Prologue Still Chapter 1 don't get ahead of yourself

...



     RufePal kept muttering "jv" team as it looked 
around the room,
hoping to find someone underage to mentor to.

Michael blurted, "you and your precious 
America! You are so gullible ...

Nyc - Paris

...Peter, Charles and I were jetting our way to Paris. I’d just woken up. I had to pee so badly it woke me up. It was a medical emergency. I stretched and everything hurt, I felt like I was 30.

Peter...

A Tale of Feminine Forgetting

...The opalescence of the early morning light flows over everything
It touches over ever leaf, every tree, every exposed part of her skin
She stares at the sky as the dawn breaks 
It shines brighter ...

In Honor of Milt

...
Backhanded Apology
Copyright © L MILTON HANKINS | Year Posted 2022

Sorry if I upset you,
I really didn’t mean it
Actually, I meant it
Until I saw it upset you,
Now I’m so...

Congratulations

...Dear recipient,

Out of all the apologies for poems written in the last several days, the algorithm has selected yours for POTD. As always, we are working to improve the algorithm. Oh, and congratu...

Backhanded Apology

...Sorry if I upset you,
I really didn’t mean it
Actually, I meant it
Until I saw it upset you,
Now I’m sorry you are
Upset by my words
But I got them said,
Which I intended to do.

Resistance and Its Minions

...If Aprils bumbling cheerfulness won't keep me going,
it must be the sun, 
or the bees or the trees 
and their sloping branches, willowy flowers.

No, it's a plaintive push,
from the bed to the ...

What a Fella

...What a fella what a lovely fella happened their way
What a generous fella to kindly offer all these gifts and his services for free
He was of the mind to give them some of his grub
But he waited u...

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