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Best Ill Tempered Poems

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Consciousness Fulcrum
My works need not be successful
Just when consciousness-centered
Success can be spiritual
Mundane and ill-tempered
If the living Holy Spirit of the 
Absolute in me abide
My thoughts, words...

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Categories: ill tempered, heart, life, work,
Form: Free verse



U-R the Calm To My Storm...
Unrest is the tempestous,
world seems out of favor...
malignant beseem the superflous,
sour,ill-tempered neighbors...
But...
The grass is always greener,
at your side of our choosing...
you've made me a believer,
love's...

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Categories: ill tempered, love, nature, peace
Form: Free verse
Unreliable Ride
My memory is like an ill-tempered old car
that refuses to start
on cold, miserable mornings...
or sometimes stutters
and shudders to life
in fits and starts with rattling parts

Names...

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Categories: ill tempered, emotions, feelings, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Find Your Way
Find your way
from brain stemmed
seed tree infancy
of glorious humanity
history

Find your way
From correct diverse limbic resolutions
back to shared soul temporal-health 
co-acclimating diverse struggling issues,
nutritionally resilient production
and...

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Categories: ill tempered, body, education, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Queen of the Fairies
Ill-tempered Elfin Queen, would bully
and demean everyone she'd see
an unruly brat
nasty tricks thought daily that
when on her throne she sat sadly    

She...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ill tempered, fantasy,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Part Two- Gunshot Wound To the Heart- a Short Story From My Memoir - a Journey of Roses and Thorns
It was a hot summer day.  Harry had stopped by Grandma's house and offered to take the two little girls down to the store...

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Categories: ill tempered, nostalgia,
Form: Prose
The Chimney
I’ve come back to the place where I had grown,
a place no more as it once was known.
Not a roof, not a room, not one...

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Categories: ill tempered, allusion, family, house, image,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Imagination- Ella's Lagoon
Over this limpid lagoon, without a church's dome,
no ill-tempered wind coming from the stormy East
can stir up huge waves, it can only scatter mist;
here birds...

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Categories: ill tempered, autumn, beautiful, dance, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Civil Discourse
Let us deport-- with skill--
Let us discourse--with care--
Powder exists in Charcoal--
Before it exists in Fire.        
  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ill tempered, anti bullying, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Armadillo
Armadillo


Armor placed upon a knighted
Rat, defender of the gold, not the
Man whose crown adorns it.
Addled pretender to the throne,
Dunce, in hidden jesters robe
Ill bred, ill...

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Categories: ill tempered, allegory,
Form: Acrostic
I Cannot Weight To Hmm
I Cannot Weight To Hmm...
Be Pressed By A Dumbbell

Two fifteen pound
     steely danse sing
     wrought iron dumbbells
...

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Categories: ill tempered, angst, appreciation, dad, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Give Us This Day Our Daily Angst
Just quit nagging ‘bout my time in the loo
Or I’ll deck you with that weird platform shoe

Yes, I like to read there, it’s the only...

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Categories: ill tempered, humor, husband, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shaggy Dog Limericks Iv
The Labradoodle

It’s clear that the scamp is a Poodle
By its frolicsome dabble and doodle
But add a big part
Of the Labrador’s heart
And you’ve got the whole...

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Categories: ill tempered, animal, cute, dog, funny,
Form: Limerick
River Behaviour
Rusty colours
Immature eddies
Various swirls by meeting the shallows 
Easy life for birds – paddling and schmoozing
Robust banks discipline the flow

Rapid somewhat move through the narrows
Under...

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Categories: ill tempered, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Gentle Squeezes
Light and airy summer breezes
Make short shrift of springtime sneezes,
Warm and thoughtful gentle squeezes
Undo ill-tempered moody freezes,
A welcomed smile much tension eases
If we would always...

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Categories: ill tempered, light, smile,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs