Best Grumbled Poems
A Well-Known Stranger
...'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst my heartbeat halted, quavered,
A......
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Categories:
grumbled, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form:
Rhyme
When Mount St Helens Blew Her Top
...Where forests stretched for miles, and Spirit Lake
lay at its foot, there stood a rebel peak.
One day the earth beneath began to quake.
What havoc Mother Nature was to wreak!
The tremo......
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Categories:
grumbled, mountains,
Form:
Quatrain
Chantale's Birthday Party
...Late to the party we arrived at seven
At least we showed up before eleven
Sweet Ginette, joined us both at the door
A bottle in my hand ready to pour
Off to the kitchen to see the Birthday Quee......
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Categories:
grumbled, birthday, celebration,
Form:
Couplet
The Lonely
...Slowly he opened the drawer and looked inside. Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there. Years perhaps. Yes definitely years. The blotched rusty brown stains, yellow......
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Categories:
grumbled, depression,
Form:
Prose
Make All Things Right
...“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew wrote those words in the Bible to tell
the world how God expects everyone to be.
No mask worn by a viper can conceal a snake
from the eyes of......
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Categories:
grumbled, character, inspirational, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Goldilocks and the Free Beers
...The cabin was stood there, its door was ajar
The owners were out but they couldn’t be far
She was so thirsty she needed a drink
Did she wait outside... well what do you think
She pushed on the ......
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Categories:
grumbled, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Azalea City Is My Hometown
...I come from Valdosta, Georgia, the lovely peach state,
Where everyone uses a southern drawl to communicate.
Valdosta is known as the “Azalea City” for its gorgeous flowers.
In the spring this sple......
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Categories:
grumbled, adventure, flower, high school,
Form:
Bio
She Wore Pineapple Rings For Glasses
...She wore pineapple rings for glasses
and walked like jelly dances
I didn't rate her chances
She used to wee standing up
she cooked lemon a'la duck
won the lottery, grumbled what bad luck
like a surgi......
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Categories:
grumbled, fantasy, food, funny, crazy,
Form:
Monorhyme
The Cyber Nymph
...The Cyber Nymph
Loch David Crane
August 18, 1997
Lie back--expose your belly ring
up unto the sky. . .
I just hope when I get down close
it won't put out my eye!
That summer I was 48
a......
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Categories:
grumbled, funny, funny love, internet,
Form:
Ballad
Of Stargazers and Starshooters
...The stargazers got together
and spread a blanket out on the grass
of the lush and opulent lawn
Here, they all huddled together
astronomy addicted
they gazed as comets blazed
sad to see them fal......
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Categories:
grumbled, analogy, appreciation, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
Plagiarized - Nothing New
...Along the pilgrimage path
life purged and plundered
minds wept and wondered
weeds steadfastly grew
knowing not what we now knew
weary travelers groaned and grumbled ......
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Categories:
grumbled, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Dragon's Anguish
...Dragon Anguish
Adam clenched his fists attempting to block his senses
from the growing growls that hammered against his rib cage.
The thousands of millenniums he had lived bar......
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Categories:
grumbled, anger, bereavement, death, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
No Toilets In the Sky - 2021 Version
...[To the tune of Ghost Riders In The Sky (loosely)]
*
Heaven’s almost everywhere but mainly upon high
Santa Claus delivers there cos he’s that kind of guy
The lac......
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Categories:
grumbled, humorous,
Form:
Lyric
Are You Real
...https://medium.com/@christylrivers/are-you-for-real-b892f0d16d87
Everything that is real to human beings
Is not so real anymore
We invented money and gods and robots and twitter-feeds
We sit be......
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Categories:
grumbled, africa, earth, environment, humanity,
Form:
Blank verse
Classic Grumblings
...The piano grumbled at his touch,
Playing fortissimo on command...
Nerves of steel snapping a string.
Ambitious to a fault, practicing the night into alarm,
Lizst spilled from the printed page
......
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Categories:
grumbled, funny, music,
Form:
Free verse