Best Backhanded Poems
Backhanded ApologySorry 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.
Written September 12, 2022
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September 14, 2022...
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Categories:
backhanded, feelings, humorous, irony, spoken
Form:
Light Verse
Backhanded Complimentsbackhanded compliments
became the standard practice
within our maladaptive version of normalcy
which fell dependent upon
a series of inconsistent
swings in mood experienced
within a single conversation
which over time became the way
of our world...
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Categories:
backhanded, corruption,
Form:
Lyric
Backhanded“All you can be is all you can be,”
damning with faint praise
A lover, not a girl to wed
—left hand falsely raised
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...
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Categories:
backhanded, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme