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Best Crotchety Poems

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Premium Member Sexy Or Old and Crotchety
Been called sexy, been called old and crotchety
Maybe I'm somewhere in between
I'm probably closer to the sex symbol type
With this body, you know what I...

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Categories: crotchety, humorous,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Falling On Me Bum

There must be something besides love
Another good topic for a poem
Perhaps I'll write about nature and stuff
And the chilly winds a-blowin'

November in Canada has that...

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Categories: crotchety, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Excellence
If you hope to be one of means and property,
And to be perceived as truly ‘one of a kind’, 
Never tolerate or accept mediocrity.

Develop, while...

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Categories: crotchety, desire, education, visionary, work,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member A Futuristic Christmas 2020 and Beyond
Dear old Santa Claus was about to go out of his mind!
'Twas nigh Christmas Eve and his schedule was way behind!
His lazy elves had let...

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Categories: crotchety, christmas, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Constant Craving
Curiosity concerning Careen’s covert chocolate and candy cache
causes children’s cartoon crusader Charlie a calamity!

Careen’s childminding cousin Charlie and carelessly closes her candy cupboard ...
curious Charlie’s...

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Categories: crotchety, candy, child, chocolate, humorous,
Form: Alliteration



The Hen House
Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant 
dwells amongst an elder net 
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque 
of old folks, only a portion of population I...

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Categories: crotchety, care, class, environment, farewell,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member It's Curtains For Me
Six months from now and it's curtains for me
I'll crash through the barrier of 80
I'll officially be old and crotchety and senile
Pablum after my morning...

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Categories: crotchety, life,
Form: Narrative
Christmas Contrast
We boarded the busy, bustling bus
Adults and children – it transported us
When a crotchety man I knew as a neighbor
Exhibited his usual Scrooge-like behavior

He snorted...

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Categories: crotchety, holidayme,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Love Those Who Love You
Love those who love you
Appreciate those who appreciate you
A dog never bites its owner
If a dog does just that, it ought to be gently put...

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Categories: crotchety, funny love, humanity, i
Form: Free verse
Throbbing Sentimental Pangs Trigger Nostalgic Memories of Yesteryear Deux
Now at an advanced crotchety age
namely three score plus one Earth
orbitz around the nearest star,
yours truly revisits
poignant episodes foisting
launching snapchatting

one after another crisis
sidelining ability to...

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Categories: crotchety, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Leprechaun
Leprechaun

The Leprechaun sprung from the corn,
said "me name is Paddy,
Dontcha be looking all forlorn,
I aint a real gone baddie,"

"For me pot of gold, sell ya...

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Categories: crotchety, adventure, me, me,
Form: Ballad
No Reason To Complain
Yikes, aside from mental
     health re: psychotherapy,
     which haint the worse
cyst phase of being
   ...

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Categories: crotchety, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ode To An Oklahoma Locksmith
Nationwide Insurance twas on my side yay
cuz, earlier this July forth
     two thousand eighteen ja way
windows closed, doors locked, and

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Categories: crotchety, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Enough With the Fireworks
Fireworks are still popping in my neighborhood
Long after July 4th; I keep thinking they’ll stop,
And hope so soon for the sake of brotherhood!

Celebrations are meaningful...

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Categories: crotchety, firework,
Form: Rhyme
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
From blank screen to logorrhea, I write with confused adumbrations

Methinks hmm, perhaps
I admittedly self plagiarize and quite aware
aforementioned amalgamated, conglomerated, 
fabricated, jerry rigged, and organized...

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Categories: crotchety, absence, adventure, business, endurance,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs