Best Chaffing Poems
Under the Willow Trees
...A path strewn thick with ruddy-faced leaves
led to nowhere and everywhere in fantasies,
our near-death rescue from boredom
come afternoon chores and homework pages
......
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Categories:
chaffing, childhood, death of a
Form:
Free verse
Witches Stirring the Soup's Brew
...Three busy witches stood stirring a stew
Cauldron filled with freaky things for a brew
Each Halloween they made
soup in their escapade
Adding ingredients to a brown roux
Jan, of cou......
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Categories:
chaffing, halloween, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Even Rocks Can Cry
...Even Rocks Can Cry
Even rocks wear away with time
and the demands of strength. These
seemingly immoveable objects,
deflectors of life’s raging torrents,
sun warmed seats of contemplation,......
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Categories:
chaffing, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
All You An Eat
...ALL YOU CAN EAT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I never subscribed to an unusual idea
That aliens are among us and thriving here
I now question my stand on that theory
Cause I’ve noticed some bodies......
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Categories:
chaffing, addiction, america, culture, food,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tree
...
The tree
That “Britches” Sees
1-21-2012
During the frigid night
Hoarfrost has embraced her branches
As a tight fitting tunic,
Tailor made, just for her.
Night Wind’s chaffing b......
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Categories:
chaffing, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Old Leaves
...OLD LEAVES
Heads bowed they sadly wait for slower death
than that of those entrenched in fear’s retreat
the edge of lifeless branches their defeat
life’s fluid oozing thickly from their veins......
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Categories:
chaffing, metaphor,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Waiting's Knife
...…waiting’s knife
slices time in broader swaths
stacking jagged moments
chaffing minutes raw, in existential unease
…one second snags the next
…the knife dulls
moments fra......
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Categories:
chaffing, time,
Form:
Free verse
Foundations of Justice
...Hanging is too good for them,
Should cut their danglies off.
Use a rusty jigsaw blade,
They’d be afraid to cough.
Our great Judicial system,
with infinite foresight,
Ignores these sound sugge......
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Categories:
chaffing, funnysound, sound,
Form:
Rhyme
Bedtime On Tramp - Part One
...He woke down the slope, by the hay
With him a thousand shrill cries
That stilled to him, yawning.
He moved with strands of hay, trailing
On his rags.
Sauntering, he is a flaneur...
The road lamps gav......
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Categories:
chaffing, life, time, time,
Form:
Narrative
When Comedians Marry
...When Comedians Marry
Comics juggle three rings when they wed
On trampoline bed they start a circus
Keep gold bands on hand while thinking zany thoughts
The comic husband wears two condoms al......
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Categories:
chaffing, adventure, celebration, crazy, funny
Form:
Free verse
Blindness
...Sometimes it’s easier to live without sight.
To become oblivious to any degree of strife,
Where the murky darkness protects from abasing,
Through our thoughtless words or unkind chaffing.
For the lig......
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Categories:
chaffing, faith, forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
Sniper
...SNIPER
A yell “ man down;” then zing, pock, pock,
pock, pock against the sandbag revetment.
Down on the plain is a man in a spider hole,
he is well hidden and armed well enough,
smokeless po......
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Categories:
chaffing, war,
Form:
Free verse
I'M Laughing
...Oh dear oh dear
I'm laughing
My life away I fear
So much I'm chaffing
From the lungs
I can see my abs
Forming rungs
I chase chocolate labs
Because I want to taste
For myself, in my haste
I try to ski......
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Categories:
chaffing, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Paper Or Plastic
...~~Paper or Plastic~~
I went to the doctors the other day
an embarrassing problem some would say
I cannot stop a tinkle when I walk
and it causes me problems when I talk
I dare not laugh......
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Categories:
chaffing, funny, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Spanish Fly
.... for public domain
A folded, yellow lined sheet of legal,
taped to a railing of chipped red paint,
caught my eye as I stepped down the stairs
from a Lower East Side dark street.
A note from......
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Categories:
chaffing, december, forgiveness, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse