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Best Backhanded Compliment Poems


Take Time
I dont know where to start
I dont even know what to say
I even dont know how to put these words in a phrase
Yet one thins is for sure, our friendship is made not by accidents but by choice we made and faith.

Cheers to the night...

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Categories: backhanded compliment, farewell, friendship,
Form: Ode
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 desk.
Write, write, write.
Why do you write?
If it's so taxing, why do you try?...

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Categories: backhanded compliment, anxiety, encouraging,
Form: Verse
Premium Member 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 to God!"
A girl said "I don't see it, but it must be...

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Categories: backhanded compliment, age, beauty,
Form: Lyric

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Premium Member 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.
Okay dummy, can you see my underwear through this dress.
Lift your dress up...

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Categories: backhanded compliment, humor, passion, woman,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry