Best Badgered Poems

...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 br......

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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 was best.

Where you were sometimes badgered for ......

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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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...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 every laureate

The glowing admirat......

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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 a person's......

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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......

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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 i......

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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 eyes.  Tell
me if it’s a raisin o......

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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, not squandered
on some......

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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                                                         
We tried our han......

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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 a solemn summon......

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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  battered chair

Though I  have  money and no needs to bare
I  feel the grief, the aff......

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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  battered chair

Though I  have  money and no needs to bare
I  feel the grief, the aff......

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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 watch

i'm sorry th......

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...Badgered In Baltimore

Dear Blabby,
     My bride of forty-five years has a cow whenever she suspects me of catting around.  She calls me a little weasel and a  snake i......

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