Best Abasement Poems

OH - nonny, NO - nonny
Nicholas Goalsworthy
Promised again to
Renounce alcohol.
Characteristically
Incomprehensible,
Muttering epithets,
Cursing the wall....

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The USA is not perfect
  never has been
    never will be 

Unlike Russia, which has
  ‘no alcohol problem’ 
 ...

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STORIES TO LIVE BY

Oh! tell me tales that lift the spirit, energise the soul
Inspire a faith that gives the strength to drive toward a goal

Let...

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abasement
the subtle nudge of
hunger pains...

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You are looking at me as if I did that to you.
Ah, whatever damn fool!
I am sorry for the expletive.
I did not mean to curse...

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One Sunday morning, I went home to visit mom and dad.
My brother was also there, and I showed them what I had.
The first thing I...

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Planet of unsettling decline
             losing our swagger of firm footing
   ...

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I

Hungry earthworms
Forever entombed in the bowels
Of mother earth
Awake

Defy this asceticism and prostrate
For your ultimate destiny
Lies not in the dogmatic 
Steady march along beaten footpaths

Hungry earthworms
These...

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Seven years, one for each of the sages,
Who rose up to lay the law of the ages,
Lessons learned in love and depravement,
I've abused abasement to...

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I pick a history from the peck of grains;
Only my retention will take me far.
And through modest abasement will I unwrap it strains?

6/4/2014...

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Read what sayeth the scriptures                    ...

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1.

I think love be quite fastidious
With a priggish clear intent
To fester hurly burly
On whom it should torment.

One thing is absolute...
'Tis that and that shall be.
Love's...

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Christmas spirit will prevail with blest merriment
Since its Author – CHRIST – is sovereign every moment
Thus, the occasion’s worthy jubilant sentiment
Should be dominant midst pandemic-caused...

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Though no advocate of radical mass stick tummy, 
there must needs be 
some nonviolent modus operandi and/or 
modus vivendi spelling abandonment, 
whereby two party bicameral...

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It's so hard, sometimes
To remove this cerement 
To muster a veritable smile
To schlepp out of the sediment

It will end, I know
When authentic smiles will replace
The...

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