Best Affronts Poems

[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]

SM
“The...

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College students today are a professor's worst nightmare
   They come to class late, with ripped jeans and purple hair
Without a word of apology...

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Tactile oscillations that are caused by vibrating sound,
Crash into my eardrums until plugs for them are found.

Audible affronts to human hearing creates cacophony,
Someone says run...

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Schooling life- a main pursuit to learn,
Is surrounded by various impairments:
As much as catching fun-fill cruises, spurn!

Easier said than done- taking the right turn;
Good enough...

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What's fair and right we oft dismiss
While clinging to our prejudice.
But biggest biases of all
Are aimed at us, the short and small.

What's tall or towers...

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When old vets gather at a pub to reminisce with their peers,
And their tongues are mellowed with a few free-flowing beers,
Raucous war stories and much...

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Graciousness

Graciousness reaches out to smooth, to embrace, ruffled emotions
Looks beyond affronts – lifting mercy up on reconciling arms
True thoughtful courtesy caresses inflamed scars like a...

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I hadn't noticed them when she was well—
The deep creases in Mother's face.
Now as she lay dying, they told a tale
Of selfless service nothing could...

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Billowed in black by my schizophrenic ponderings, these personalities are somehow resolute.

Within a matrix of survival; they coincide.

Fractals of quanta and wavelengths that fall from...

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Natural Curiosity

Do you wonder about the me on my inside
As you gaze at the me on my outside,
A counterpoint to those around us?

What expectations do...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : PART XXXVIII

IF you pull a long vacant face
Might be you just have nothing to say
Which is not a...

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Weeping Webbed World
(Apropos of a Syrian Nightmare) 

Affronts to humanity streak the skies
Like once perched war eagles
Soaring over communities of prey
Where the lingering smell of...

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Once upon a time, a love story began,
Two hearts intertwined, a woman and a man.
Their love was pure, their love was true,
And in each other's...

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she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,

hauteur cloaked with reticence,

her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable

official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts

Bravado of naughtiness in...

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If (I / you) were to observe (myself / yourself),
Would (I / You) really know (myself / yourself)?

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We prosper but we also strain -
This "Game...

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