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Premium Member No Anchor For Rancour
Upon those who yield to anger, I should take pity
because words they spit are like sandpaper, gritty.
A loathsome temper causes them to fume and fret,
sometimes...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: churlish, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member One Way Ships - Part 2
Continued from Part 1

Hungary hounds harangue the highlands,
howl at skies and desert islands…
Below, unfettered carbon crows conceal the parting path she chose

Lighthouse lamps and lanterns...

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Categories: churlish, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Can'T Take Much Mo
I could pound her head against a brick wall
or find some modicum of logic to install
but those would probably do no good at all
for she...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: churlish, conflict,
Form: Imagism
The Raving
From 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.

Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men 
Who...

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Categories: churlish, hip hop, parody, raven,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member To Spread Ones Wings and Fly
Sometimes I've stopped and wondered
As I write from day to day
To spread ones wings and fly
And let the anew have their say

There are so many...

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Categories: churlish, on writing and wordswrite,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member False Alarm
You Fall ...

the ground of your reality dissolves in this
stream of distraction, this inconvenient passion
the mawkish pop music you mock
is now singing your story, as
your...

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Categories: churlish, love hurts, pain, recovery
Form: Free verse
Spenserian Sonnet To a Beautiful Lady
Trochaic Pentameter

My love's spirit's gentle like a breeze that
blows cool o'er this my brow, most hot, feverish.
I am made calm by her presence like at
times...

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Categories: churlish, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Am Bored With Boors
I looked up the word 'boor' in my Funk n' Wagnalls to verify the truth.
I found that, "A 'boor' is one who's ill-bred, crude and...

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Categories: churlish, funnyme,
Form: Rhyme
Depression
Punishes without any crime committed!
He makes individuals abye the amiss of others.
He could be a lifetime durance to one's soul
The victim walk flaneur like dead...

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Categories: churlish, anger, depression,
Form: Personification
The True Essence of Beauty
Out of the pot of Nature's Heritage we were created.
The taste of originality to savor, such novelty to behold.
Fearfully and wonderfully adorned with a spirit...

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Categories: churlish, beautiful, beauty, bible, christian,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member River Dance - Manassian Quintain
With just a swirl, she flirts with you-
           brash churlish curves in surly sway.
 ...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: churlish, imagery, imagination, river,
Form: Quintain (English)
Alien Messiah
Alien Messiah
A recital of miserly contastrophists
led by a figure of churlish meanness
speaking rhetoric of the pacifist 
maniacal god complex of fierceness  

chorus
pledge allegiance to...

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Categories: churlish, political,
Form: Lyric
Inexplicable Memory Quirkily Unhinged
A rhetorical question finds me asking 
(to no one in particular) why I recall 
the names of grade school teachers 
approximately fifty years ago (whose...

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Categories: churlish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Season of My Despair
It is a wondrous thing how fleet-
was he on those heavy steel shod feet.
With what a beautiful flowing grace
he oft would gallop and race,
then stay,...

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Categories: churlish, bereavement, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Oval Sanatorium

Nutty grandpa president
is talking crazy uncle Donald again
His little Chucky thumbs
is tapping epithet tweet nonsense
Batty grandpa’s been 
grumpily sucking 
on the hate hot sauce bottle
stashed...

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Categories: churlish, humor, parody, satire, word
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs