Best Let 'Er Rip Poems

College students today are a professor's worst nightmare
   They come to class late, with ripped jeans and purple hair
Without a word of apology...

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(Apologies to any cowboys in Derbyshire)

The telegraph came through, but just in time
before my coach had passed the county line
mah girl wuz all alone and...

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I went out with some guys for lunch
we ate all we could find.

We ate like we were starving
and I must have lost my mind;

I had...

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PETTY POET

You deem
to stand in judgement of me
your mealy mouth poised
whining and whinging
such scathing sarcastic sniveling

What gives you the right
to tear me apart
with vitriolic venom
dripping...

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BS ON PS

The attitude of some folk I find quite abhorrent
Poets shouldn’t be guilt tripped into leaving a comment

No one knows what is going on...

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Sometimes when I write, I tend to stretch the truth.
Same as when I gossip; I've done that since my youth.
It's not so much deliberate, but...

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Let er rip.  -    Shoot from the hip. Write using the meaning of this expression.



They were strangers
Yet they felt completely 
Au...

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So ...
I'm "disturbed", am I?
(So claims an acquaintance of old)
For I write deeply about "darkness and fear"

Places and emotions that many avoid
Shadows that tremble, naked,...

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Although moon glints, I am inconsolable
 This womb,  your harbor
Nourished by splendor of days,  nights
While we wait in anticipation for life...

Fifteen weeks it...

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My doctors, by omission, lied to me.
They had me take a drug I didn’t need.
It does no good; that drug’s a travesty.

Injections twice a year...

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I know I shouldn’t overgeneralize
So I’m not talking about every single one of you.

There’s one thing that shocks me and
I just have to spit it...

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Step up and get your Covid jab. Hey, hey!
The devil’s advocate I play today.
The vax is still on trial? Don’t let that sway
your mind against...

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Consciousness regained





Got shattered when my true love he betrayed,
Grieved intensely for days my broken heart,
The subtle emotions were eventually swayed,
Reinforced strength for a fresh start,
Nothing...

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"Lord, grant Your divine healing..."
This is my spirit's plea
Now that I'm confronted with my Dad's groaning angst
While he writhes in pain, struggling to express himself
Here...

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I’ve picked at it, tore at it
Pulled it with my teeth
My mouth filled up with nibbled bits
Which gave me loads of grief 

I had to...

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