Begrudging Poems | Examples

How Are You?

though tis spoken when we meet,
begrudging, we mete
out cold, absent any meat


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A Ukiah, 7/5/7 with rhyme

The Closing Year

I saw its crooked shadow
dragging its mind along like a leashed dog.
It went out and came back in
fretting over its own begrudging existence.

This morning it peers out of a window,
looking to see if anything has changed -
nothing has.

I know it will be up all night
wondering where its days went,
where the lost and lingering hours
slipped between the cracks,
of one dawn after another.

It will be shutting a door on itself soon,
when I am on the other side
I will nail that door shut,
then walk undaunted.
into the timeless light,
with no regrets, and not even
a single afterthought.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Endometriosis Awareness, collaboration with The Silent One

Cramps creeping and crawling, 
an unwelcome reminder.
Why does my body betray 
me like an unfaithful secret lover, 
chaining me to my bed.
When did my uterus become my enemy, 
even the pills offer no sympathy.

As a contradiction of contractions,
crush my organs like sharpened 
shards of glass, these strange 
territories tighten like heavy torture, 
as linings of sore pelvis feel 
a tugging pain of shame.
Unable to distract this 
typhoon-like monstrosity,
I'm a hostage to 
this turbulent intruder.

For those who question body 
frames that do not beam, 
my frowns are not an option,
they are a veil to the weight 
of excruciating fatigue 
that feeds the sanity in me.

There's no 'super human' strength 
left to curl my fingers into 
brass knuckles holding my 
burning edges in peace.

Drained by the cries that 
crack the surface of my womb, 
agitation is expressed 
in begrudging outbursts!
Unexpected and unpredictable 
pain is a cureless curse, 
behaving erratically within 
a finely constructed system of tubes.
Once again, I wonder if 
this shall be the month that
validates my womanhood.

Melted Greeting Card

Minuscule marshmallows in weak cocoa 
there is no taste in the heat of the South;
It should always burn the top of the mouth 
and be soothed inhaling a ball of snow;

Those worn out carolers will need a jolt 
so the hot air doesn’t cause them to faint;
Narcoleptic has become a poor trait,
out of tune voices outside the deadbolt;

Pushing against heat exhaustion is hard;
Asleep on your feet is not a new kink,
always they’re begrudging any such drink;
Left sweating like a melted greeting card.

Eternity

All this introspection
gets too much, 
crushing you under 
its own gravity, drawing you
inwards. Even the senses are
captive to its cause, the head
a dark, claustrophobic hole.

Then the world miraculously 
intervenes with an afternoon, 
blowing leaves in circles
about your heavy feet
as if to tickle and bend solemn 
lips into a begrudging smile.

Then the unexplainable,
a sense of something escaping, 
glancing off the ordinary
into eternity 
and almost embarrassingly, 
you give a little skip.

Labor

My long ago mother
used to string together cheap jewelry,
baubles and glitter threaded onto silvery strings
for a begrudging merchant
who kept a cramped second floor office
near what I later knew as Smithfield Market.
I would go with her
for I had nowhere to go but with her.
The very thought of 'nowhere' now
fills my mind with the muddy puddles
I used to jump into as we walked for miles
to a place where she sold
her time absorbing, paid for hourly
and tedious labor.
A place where an elderly, sour
and sniffing man doled out
a few coins into her open hand.
A scant amount and never enough of it
for us to ride a London bus
back to where we came from.

As Winter Flees Giving Spring a Begrudging Nod

As Winter Flees Giving Spring A Begrudging Nod

As winter flees giving Spring a begrudging nod
So the farmer waits to turn over life giving sod
Mother Nature, bows to Heavenly hand of God
Summer too, waits to embrace racing feet unshod
Young lads dancing forth with live bait and fishing pole
With promise of joy and food from fav fishing hole.

As life in enchanting mysterious ways
Sallies ever onward into those flowing days
So shall winter return to blanket earth with cold
We should give thanks we came from God's Heavenly mold.

Robert J. Lindley, 8-29-2022
Rhyme

Note: 1
When the light has been gifted and the heart wakes to see its power. Joy enters and falls like a blessed Spring shower.

Note: 2
My first in a while. Ablessing was gifted me this day- and that gift birthed this new creation, God works miracles and sees every fallen sparrow.

Meaning of Life

I have been thinking about the meaning of life
There was life here long before I came to be
And there will be life continuing long after me.
It seems I have a rather small window of impact
Not much point in begrudging what I lacked …
One thing’s certain…that is an undeniable fact!

My time here on earth has been rather ethereal
When I consider time in its grander dimension
I mustn’t think when I’m gone, all is in suspension.
No, life will move steadily along with a divine plan
I have been but a very small piece of eternal man,
Here for a brief period of time, doing the best I can.

Many came before and paved for me the way,
Showing me the best paths to choose for success
I’ve stumbled, fallen, and sometimes made a mess.
And, as advised, I picked myself up and carried on
I think friends will remember that when I’m gone,
But, frankly, I’ll be most happy to pass on the baton.

Written December 6, 2021

I Want To Taste Pumpkin

I take another bite of sweet pumpkin pie
Wondering why I deprive myself of her company
Most of the year, only allowing her to grace my mouth
on Thanksgiving week.

You can take the rest of it home, our host offers.
Seeing how totally enamored I am with her.
I put aluminum foil lovingly around her top
Begrudging my four-year-old cousin’s plea 
“I want to taste pumpkin.”

He does not like it, of course, 
so his unthinking mother throws it away.
I dig it out of the trash seconds later.
Tiny bite marks will not stop me from
devouring this piece in my dorm room. 

Grandma gives me a thumbs up 
as I leave to go back to college. 
Next year I will make another one 
just for you, she says.

Confidence Vs Lack Of

confidence
                                self assured, poised
                       unassuming, leading, persuasive,
                           leader, parent, loner, bully
                       bragging, disparaging, lambasting
                                begrudging, angry
                                      lack of

Tomorrow We Die

Come one! Come all!
Come to Carnival!
Let us celebrate the Fall
and partake a small measure
in the pleasure
of this season,
a party for no reason,
save tomorrow we die!

Hear the cries of the party-goers
the bauble throwers,
forgetting for the moment they are mortal,
have given up the portal
of glory,
the old, old, story
of Paradise tossed.

Tonight, we do not count the cost!
We forget
the bet
we lost!

Tonight, let us be glad
not begrudging or mad
that life
with all its strife
is short.
Hold your memories to your heart.

Come, you’ve no time to sorrow.
Eat, and drink for tomorrow 
we die.

Regret

I was scolding you

You were a 4-year-old 
sitting in a big chair 
at the dining room table
hunched over your copybook
the pencil in your hand 
held straight, halting, looking lost
as you dragged the tip across the page
that has turned into a minefield
because one more misstep 
another dot out of place
would set off a new explosion
projectiles masquerading as words
from the mouth of the preoccupied father 
sitting next to you
not wanting to be sitting next to you
begrudging the time 

Then I saw it
onto a blank spot on the page
a solitary teardrop lands
as if in slow motion
splatters 
spreads 
a translucent bloodstain on gauze

I don’t know if you remember it.
I certainly do.
Will.

Begrudging Enabler

Begrudging Enabler

Why do you do this to yourself?
Maybe a better question is
why do I allow you to do this
to yourself?

I have been your enabler.
If you ask me to go get your
poison I will begrudgingly
oblige, helping you to kill
yourself.

After I give you the goods
I will walk away feeling like
crap about it, dreaming
of the day that I have the
courage to tell you no

Envious Spring

Spring on hiatus
Begrudging everyone’s wish
A long hot summer

Rip Yourself Out of Your Chair

So I'll burst forth like a seismographic telegraph,
Churning forward verbs and nouns,
Begrudging the kind of adult looks you get
From people who are too scared to be honest.
The ones who yearn for the wild,
But are to rooted in the towing of the line.

To them I say: rip yourself out of your chair.
Breathe unknown air.
Lift your soul towards the simmering clouds
And feels how it is to burn yourself through 
In cool, slow tempos.

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