Best Bothered Poems

Cold Monday morning
 He mumbles under his breath
 Car engine stutters
 As he turns the key in vain
 Temperature is rising.


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 Written ~ 20th March, 2015
 Contest: Tanka 2
 Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
 Placed: 4th...

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Better believe it, my skin is crawling
Over and out, I need to decompress
There's nothing going on, just feel closed in
Head is empty but full to bursting
Ears ringing
Relax I tell myself
Easy when you know how
Daydreaming, how I miss you...

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I've been buzzing around for hours
In and out of the flowers
Having a grand old flit.
I'm all covered in pollen
My legs are quite swollen,
But I do enjoy doing my bit.

I've been under the flowers spell,
Bee-witched by their colour and their smell
But I'm a bit bothered by...

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Been Bothered By Burst of Thirst

With something was cursed
Been bothered by burst of thirst
Was not well rehearsed.

Jim Horn...

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Bewitched and Bothered 

If I float like a feather high in the sky
Hope all of my problems will pass by
And plainly in view should see below
Being bigger as they grow and grow.

Bewitched and bothered become you
Are fearful and afraid of what to do
As to consequences...

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Bewitched by some poems, they are a dream to read
Who could not comment, on the ones that succeed
To thrill me with beauty...and inspire...indeed!
Winning my heart....and taking the lead?

But when bothered by some, that shout angry phrases
Not to my liking....not quite my tastes
Perhaps slamming is fine,...

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Why do you doubt what I said?
Love
Lord...

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I am not bothered, whatever you say
If I never win, poem of the day
Don’t worry about me, I will be ok
If I never win, poem of the day
I am not going to cry, no flipping way
If you never choose me as poem of the day
I...

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Being Bothered By Another Ban

Unless being bothered by another ban, 
And maybe in our such a short life span, 
From things I read and had started to scan, 
Who was made first woman or man? 

Is there another question you had in mind?
Whose answer very...

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Started a new book today,
   how many does that make
or rather should I say
   how many does it take
to reveal and express
   all those thoughts dancing in my head, 
hidden yet unkept?

What vivid dreams
   and wild imaginings...

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Why are you prepared to go to war with your neighbor?
Yet not with the gangs who control the street,
Your children walk down.

Why can you not smell the corruption?
That fouls the air in town,
When you smell your neighbor's apple pie and choose to reject it.

Why do...

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Bothered By This

If you may be bothered by this
Would also be with a Trump kiss;
Sold self short;
Should be in court;
Him in White House would not miss.

Jim Horn...

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Not bothered by gluttony, bring me pie
Warm cookies, brownies, cake, frosted and sweet
I love the good stuff, and I will not lie
Give me honey, syrup, a daily treat

I would like to try new things. I truly would.
Not bothered by gluttony, bring me pie.
If you would...

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After a long day she sits at the edge of her bed
tears in her eye wallowed in misery
every tear drop reminisce a forgotten nostalgia
she heaves heavily trying to catch her breath
or was she trying to catch her soul?
and again that night
her room witness a mad...

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Bothered By An Assigned Bracket

Linda Arnold wrote an article about
Spring and March Madness about
busting brackets.

An assigned bracket  may lock you in;
Can not escape or get out ever again,
And if willing,
Self-fulfilling; (Merton's Prophesy)
No matter where you are or have been.

Jim Horn 

Am listening to Apple...

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