Best Badgered Poems

Badgered In Baltimore

Dear Blabby,
     My bride of forty-five years has a cow whenever she suspects me of catting around.  She...

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Brassy Barry’s boastful bumbling Brana Bull 
Badgered Billy’s bashful buffoonish Baboon 
Into baking a boisterous Blackberry Bisque 

Beyond bunking, Barry’s brave babysitter 
boldly bellowed brashly.

Bonafide...

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Slowly, 
The air fills with blue, and the greens catch fire
The hammerlight of Summer
With little mouse-steps,
Steals off into apricity.

I divide my days
Between wine and responsibilities
As...

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Growing Up Down South

The southern town where I grew up was just like all the rest.

Where cousins played and moms dismayed and dads knew what...

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I once owned a uniform that shone in pride
The polished brass, creases and lines

An army of friends and civilian respect
I marched upon every street, placed...

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Happy.  Genial.  Merry.  Jolly
Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed
Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy
Tipsy.  Tiddly.  Brahms and Liszt

Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied
Ganted, gubbed, guttered
Bladdered,...

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Poetical Journey Of Pizzaz

Apple Blossom Orchids are spreading across my grandmother's land like a whiZ
Zestfully all around one's earnest expectations like the smallest of fleA
Bites...

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You have been persecuted.
You have been oppressed and depressed,
Wronged and aggrieved, even violated,
And for what?
Because of gender,
Because your body lacks a certain appendage,
Your chest is...

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She wanted a big production wedding,
badgered her fiancee into going along 
	with the bad idea
Get the marriage started off wrong
Money that needed to be saved,...

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Little late Lady

(Tongue Twister/ Alliteration )

Little late Lady lingered likewise long at the Lodge.
Made mean man Maney more than merely mad.
Silly Sam Sheriff sadly seized...

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so someone badgered you
threw their words at you
they splintered like sticks 
they broke the skin like stones
you swallowed your heart
you lost the movement of your...

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There was never any controlling it?
No dodging it. Unloading it?
It stuck us both together and held us tightly in its grip    ...

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How can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me  from his ...

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Annoyances 


One of the first things to go is that
never appreciated tactile proficiency.
The ability to find the car keys in an
overstuffed bag.  Close your...

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A lovely face with a gorgeous height,
Nibbles the straw with its bemused delight,
Chafed palpitation in bewilderment,
Ticks disaster reeking of harassment;

Look away and miss those voluptuous...

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