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Best Hot Under The Collar Poems


Blue Moon
I'm lost inside your world...
       Hang on every word...
       A love I can't afford...
       I breaks my heart...
       Sapping my hopes..
...

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Categories: hot under the collar, angst, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Rugged
I am going to write a funny poem
Why does life have tomorrow?
Because if it doesn't 
Wouldn't you have it today?
Far near
How far is far
And how near is near?
Close enough to me
You are too close
What do you take one by?
By the hand?
I am nothing to you
By...

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Categories: hot under the collar, faith, fun, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Candid Camera
Here are some fun things that happened
On that classic Candid Camera show
A man walked backwards on a sidewalk
People copied him, wouldn't you know?

A man wearing only tighty whiteys
Asked the hotel clerk for a room
A street cleaner starts cleaning the gutters
With a broom handle but missing...

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Categories: hot under the collar, funny,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Trilogy of Terror
A metaphorical allegory
Real life-or a war story
The first one was to end them all
So they called it great
The next saw evil rise and fall 
One's hate had sealed his fate 

One Korea to Saigon
Russia to Bulgaria
China to Taiwan

Bloodshed in Syria 
My God, oh my dear...

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Categories: hot under the collar, age, analogy, arabic, bible,
Form: Free verse
Another New Year
Count your blessings you're still here it's2018 another wondrous year. 2017 has passed us by ain't it truly funny how time can really fly.

Was 2017 a scream or just routine. Did it make you hoot and holler, kept you hot under the collar cause no...

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Categories: hot under the collar, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, courage,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Trilogy
A metaphorical allegory
A real life war story
The first one was to end them all
So they called it great
The next saw evil rise and fall 
One's hate had sealed his fate 

One Korea to Saigon
Russia to Bulgaria-
China to Taiwan
Bloodshed in Syria 
My God, oh my dear...

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Categories: hot under the collar, adventure, allegory, corruption, dark,
Form: Fibonacci



Ponder Yonder
Intoxicated by the vast open sea
Her music and fragrance
Let me entice you with my words sticky
Don’t get hot under the collar
For it is nothing but words
Simple words yet powerful
That is, if you allow yourself to be carried away
Whatever you are thinking right now
Is not what...

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Categories: hot under the collar, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Kind of Love
We’re writing hieroglyphics for the next civilization to decipher
Armageddon is brewed in the lab for children like us born in petri-dishes
Raised like crops plugged amid weeds
We downgrade to something less than human
The weather forecast is hot under the collar
Amid self elected rule
A runaway economy fallen...

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Categories: hot under the collar, love hurts, war,
Form: Free verse
Estranged Youth
Wearing your ego in that ride as you go
A new fragrance to hide an old flaw 
A cool flow that’s hot under the collar
In that overdue ostentation soon to follow

Wearing labels you are labelled like a billboard
And branding a fake patriotism and brotherhood 
You are...

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Categories: hot under the collar, anger, political, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Six Months of Lockdown


Don't tell me to wear a mask, it's so frightful.
I find God's fresh air more than delightful!

So be on your way, and happy vaccine day!
Natural living, great immunity and organic diet are my way.

Now this makes some people hot under the collar.
But since I can't leave...

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Categories: hot under the collar, giggle, health,
Form: Couplet
Pompano Fishing, Part 2
I didn’t tell them, it had started as a joke
When I caught two more that’s when they started to croak
They checked my rig to make sure that theirs was the same
Took my spot in boat, still I heard them complain

Then I caught another one from...

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Categories: hot under the collar, adventure,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member She's Thwarted His Advances For Bluer Skies
She's thwarted his advances for bluer skies 

cat chasing her tail
to poking at nothing there
why is this such a fail
retrieving her blank stare

he tries again, his paws
grasping thin air
his teeth into her jaw
for answers to her impair

he scowls, then paces to scare
purring none the less
as...

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Categories: hot under the collar, humanity, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
By: Tom 
2/14/2021

Things are created each day
that will be man’s downfall.
example:
A.I. has given me a robotic dog,
he isn’t bothered by cold,
has no problems with fleas,
but is plagued with a skin rash called rust,
so he stays inside when raining or has to be oiled daily.
oh,...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hot under the collar, dog, humor,
Form: Free verse
Stomp-Pad
I could kill you right now
but what would that fix
any way I'm too tiered 
to hand out some 'licks'
Test me again
on some other occasion
and I'll cause more drama
than an 'Alien' invasion

Disrespect me

Calling me names
Speaking in tongue's
playing little-girl games
Haven't you learned
to think about others
Don't be so...

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Categories: hot under the collar, angst, me, integrity,
Form: Verse
Ronnie Coy Lee Wheeler
Ronnie was born on October the thirteen.
Ozzfest was here on his first birthday.
Next year he will be twelve years old.
Nearly a teenager he will be.
Inch by inch he is growing up.
Every year he reminds me more and more of lil' coy.

Careless and daring he is.
Out...

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Categories: hot under the collar, childhood, son,
Form: ABC

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry