Best Irritant Poems
This String of Pearls- a Pd Collaboration
...For PD's Collaboration Contest
August 28, 2015
By: Eileen Manassian
Thank you for this string of pearls
What a beautiful sight!
Right?
Yes.....a sheer delight.
You look surprised!
Yo......
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Categories:
irritant, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
The Longing
...There is always
a dull longing
that goes unlabelled
and hangs a layer or two
below a joy, a pang
somewhere in the soul
that can't be coughed up
or cut out, just endured.
A nonsense to the ......
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Categories:
irritant, longing, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Everyone Is Unreal Now
...It is not all about us
It is all about me.
My feelings, my hopes, my dreams.
Get out of my thoughts; you take too much time
You are begging for attention
Annoying me
So I run toward the hills......
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Categories:
irritant, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Gap Filling
...Sambhavami yugé, yugé, says the Gita:
God will come back again and again.
What for?
Of course to protect the virtuous
And destroy the evil doers.
Déjà vu!
The Jews seem to wait for the same......
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Categories:
irritant, god, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Hermit Crab
...Scurrying across the ocean floor
leaving faint tracks in the sand
moving sideways to go forward
nothing mapped or even planned.
The sand is always shifting
ever changing the terrain
all creat......
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Categories:
irritant, allegory, animals, sea, ocean,
Form:
Quatrain
Pearl, For People Enduring Inescapable Pain
...For people enduring inescapable pain, especially for my husband
"Pearls are formed inside the shell of certain mollusks as a defense mechanism against a potentially threatening irritant such ......
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Categories:
irritant, beauty, bible, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
irritant, food, nature, sea,
Form:
Lanterne
And What
...let's get one thing clear
stimulant
or irritant
I'm here
and I'm not going anywhere
It will take more than a few hash words
laced with lemon
and dipped in piss
to deter me
from saying my piece......
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Categories:
irritant, funny,
Form:
My Room Mates
...Nightly they give thanks
With uncanny stealth they close in
By the scent of carbon dioxide
Drawn to a table
well prepared in the presence
And, of their enemy!
Endlessly raped and pillaged
In......
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Categories:
irritant, pain,
Form:
Narrative
Gems
...Mom told me once that
Her cat's eye necklace
Was a favorite.
There was something about it
That filled it with glamour.
Years later I learned it appealed
To her because it was chatoyant.
A f......
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Categories:
irritant, fun, games,
Form:
Free verse
Prima Don
...On the last evening of a wonderful weathered
summer, flitting between the branches
of our rowan tree and the Chinese wind chime
......
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Categories:
irritant, bird,
Form:
Free verse
The Pearl
...The irritant is caressed in the soft folds of a cloak
Layering it lovingly so smooth to stroke
The irritant becomes fit for King, Prince or Earl
To spend their money on a brand new lustrous pearl.
T......
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Categories:
irritant, nature, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
I Search For Equilibrium
...I Search For Equilibrium
O I have given more to thee
Than thee hath given back to me
But rattle on thy prattle proud
For I be soft where thee be loud
And those with holes that burrow deep
C......
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Categories:
irritant, angst, love,
Form:
Quatrain
The Reluctant
...THE RELUCTANT
by Mark Miller © 09/19/2014
We are the living seeming stillness willful we endure
Through vows of contempt to never surrender
Vacate questions fly by trees terse unknown
Retrea......
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Categories:
irritant, conflict, courage, self,
Form:
Ballad
Where the Grass Don't Grow
...Where the Grass Don't Grow
The historical record bared to see
In worn-torn pages, undecipherable.
And I’m to believe that this sum total
Will explain everything you say to me.
Mixed w......
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Categories:
irritant, humor, perspective,
Form:
Verse