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Best Guff Poems

Below are the all-time best Guff poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of guff poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Maybe the Guff Was Empty, Cancer Full Moon Eclipse
Maybe the guff was empty—Cancer full moon eclipse

Left field call on the black wall phone
faint cry from the distant end
spoke with throat lump of capital
disaster...

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Categories: guff, baby, dark, death, grief,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member High Bred Reality
Soul progress
     back field in motion
The guff
     Chose, chose, live grow leave!  GO!

Leapt from heaven's gold
Jump...

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Categories: guff, childhood, faith, family, father,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Flying Scotsman 1939
From Edinburgh’s Waverley to Kings Cross
At journey's rest before terminating chaos,
Winding through the serene countryside
Spying a glimpse of the North Sea tide,
Rolling along in my...

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Categories: guff, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The New Seven Deadly Sins
I think it's time to do an update
Of The Seven Deadly Sins
Most people do not know them all
Sit down and let's begin
I'm not really religious
But,...

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Categories: guff, religion, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Modern Woman's Plight
She wakens to the most ungodly ring tone-
her husband's cell phone left there by her bed.
And next, her damn alarm clock's blare is fed
by noise...

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Categories: guff, life,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member Part 2 You Have To Whistle
Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young,...

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Categories: guff, child abuse, giving, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dream Party At Number 10
In my dreams
like many have dreams,
I went to number 10 Drowning Street.
in this pandemic, isolation to cheat,
there is no other better place 
to meet, greet,...

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Categories: guff, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Two Sides of a Coin
She stands there in knickers,
A cap on her head,
Looking tomboyish, truant and tough
And a cigarette dangles
From unsmiling lips
To warn all she’s not taking their guff.

It’s...

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Categories: guff, grandmother, image,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thanksgiving Leftovers
'Twas the day after Thanksgiving and all of its ado and congestion.
I'd consumed too much turkey and pie and due to its ingestion,
Today, I'm suffering...

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Categories: guff, funny, holiday, thanksgiving, me,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Teacher's Confession


Oh dear kind Lord, I beg you and,
when on my knees to pray,
I need a little helping hand
to guide me through this day.
I have to...

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Categories: guff, prayer, religion, teacher,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bob
I had the distinction of being labeled 'Robert' by Mom and Dad.
Somehow that evolved into the moniker I'm known by today,
And the name I prefer,...

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Categories: guff,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member The Bully
Once a bully named Mike McGruff,

   Who thought he was really tough stuff,

      Until that fateful day,

 ...

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Categories: guff, anti bullying, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Rhymes With Stuff
Rhymes with “Stuff”
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Bluff is a cliff that above land is laid.
Bluffs are charades to win card games played.
Buff...

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Categories: guff, education, children, kindergarten,
Form: Rhyme
My First Car

My lawyer drives a Jaguar,
a slim and glitzy marque.
He seldom ventures near the Law,
(the work's done by his clerk),
buts sends in bills at Partners Rates;
that...

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Categories: guff, confusion, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Grandma
There's not much to say.
I knew her, know some things,
but certainly not all.

I know how little she put up with fools,
how her cooking surpassed so...

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Categories: guff, beauty, cry, death, eulogy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs