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Best Hen Pecked Poems

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The Hen-Pecked Husband

"The Hen-pecked Husband"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Light Poetry)

The door bell rang yet again,
and yonder heard the distinct voice,
of my dear old wife, full of pain,
drowned all...

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Categories: hen pecked, funny, husband, wedding, wife,
Form: Light Verse



Hen-Pecked
Feathered in fire,
a blood heat of
red stolen coals
under your wing;
soles calloused by
the mountain road
long as loneliness;
step after hot step
chicken-foot lurch
home - what home?
frigid nest of...

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© Chris Nash  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hen pecked, love, nature,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Red Sky Over Cairo
A lifetime of waiting, stacks of National
Geographic half as tall as me, piled on
every step. A girl with nothing to do but dream.

The yellow-black jackets...

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Categories: hen pecked, anxiety, fear, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Counting Sheep
Oh fine little sheep
why must you bleat?
When your manger’s piled high
with strands of wheat.  

Think you of the cock
hen pecked by his flock
who must...

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Categories: hen pecked, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Lennie and Half Acre
Lennie was a Hen-pecked pastry baker
Who told His wife He might forsake Her.
She nagged and was grossly obese.
He wanted it to quickly cease.
Whereupon He frosted...

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Categories: hen pecked, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Strange Definitions
DECADENT = ten teeth

CONFUSION = against melting with intensity

DEDICATION = a vacation in the afterlife

PURPOSE = Kitten posing while purring

INFORMATION = soldiers on parade

DELETED =...

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Categories: hen pecked, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Another Loss By Hillary
Another Loss By Hillary

 A lot of people are upset about Hillary's loss. 
Politics should be kept out off of FaceBook just like out of church....

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hen pecked, angst,
Form: Limerick
The Good Old Boy
Men who like men join a gentleman's club
Hen-pecked husbands play rub-a-dub-dub
Men who like food go straight to the grub
So all the rest of us head...

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Categories: hen pecked, culture, drink, football, fun,
Form: Rhyme
A Bend In the River
The serpentine and ageless liquid
   mercurial possessed snake
eternally swallowed 
   since the beginning of time
   one unquenchable thirst to...

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Categories: hen pecked, appreciation, beauty, creation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shut the Duck Up
Old Pattie just cannot stop talking
Voice grates like a mallard duck squawking
Can't you just be quiet ?
For once you should try it
Her hen pecked husband...

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Categories: hen pecked, conflict, humorous, spoken word,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Watching the Henhouse
Once upon Trump time,
Free-range,
organic,
totally uncaged hens
brown
and black
and even white
and all things in-between
prepared to vote for more green climate health
growing indoor/outdoor good-egg chicken family values
planning to...

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Categories: hen pecked, betrayal, children, community, conflict,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Name Footles
A Cat's that's Bullied

Wussy
Pussy ;)


Farm Animals that Enjoy the Classics

Dicken's
Chickens


A Corn Farmer with Turn off Jokes and Turn on Passion

Corny
Horny


A Humorous Song

Witty
Ditty


The Fastest "Gun" in...

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Categories: hen pecked,
Form: Footle
Circa January 2010 Bell Tower and Carillon
Twittered Via Chilled Wren
At Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Prior carte blanche to confessing illicit
     extra-marital affair
I embolden tomb ache
    ...

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Categories: hen pecked, 12th grade, animal, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Friday Night Check-Ins
Friday Night Check-ins


The days have been calm and collected.
The guests have been happy, content.
The weekday staff scurry out from the hotel
To avoid the upcoming event.

Weekend...

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Categories: hen pecked, age, england, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Just In Case You Wondered
Just in case you wondered...

Yours truly, (i.e. I) quickly
became hypnagogic afore
subsequently segueing soundly
into autohypnosis booklore,
while binge reading courtesy

regarding aptitude chore
treasure trove books galore
five dollars as...

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Categories: hen pecked, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things