Best Look Down Your Nose Poems

Don't Look Down Your Nose
By Franklin Price
7/17/2016

Don't look down your nose at me
I'm just as good as you
I may not have the things you have
Or...

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My personal view of MY own poet’s duty
is to write for folk who are not too snooty

Poetry ‘experts’ may look down their nose
at the simple...

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The Good Old Days

Take me back to the good old days
When we were grateful for what we had
Now people have much more than they need
And...

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It had been a bad day, she kicks off her shoes.
grabs the one thing from the fridge, that remove's all her blues, 
its cool and...

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For whom do you write, vainglorious poet?
Who are the disciples you seek?
Shall converts worship at the altar of your prose;
Devoutly reciting your works?
Is there passion...

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What are values and what good do they do?
Simply they are standards we know that need to be followed, ones we know to be true.
They...

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After the Election:

The bustling-frenzy has died
Leaving us all wide-eyed.
Just when you think you know the end,
You are startled by the result.

Did you stand in the...

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Don't get upset with all this mess that I'm about to reveal
I can't control the need to convey exactly how I feel
I hate you
It's true,...

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America used to be great, then we stopped reaching for the stars.
We let our petty differences dictate just where we are.
We separated church and state,...

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You look down your nose at me because of what I write
 Your nose stays in the air because of how I live my life
...

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COUSIN    JULIA


Cousin Julia came to tea
Sat aloof from our group of three
Wanted no cake, crumpet or cheese
Only weak tea, and black, please.

Tall...

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There’s a baby shower coming up next week
I don’t think that I want to go
It hits a nerve, and a sensitive spot
I don’t want how...

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The day goes on and I encounter more
Feelings, a hurricane of emotions
Quaking through this vessel
Threatening to toss over in the winds
Capsize in a sea of...

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The religious zealots,
 say they will pray for us,
   They look down their nose
 at us with disgust.

   They say repent;
...

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Don't cause yourself trouble where there's no need.
Don't yield to temptations of lust, power and greed.

No matter the reasons for the things you do,
They always...

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