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Best Nitpicking Poems

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Premium Member A Gift Forgotten
We act.
Rationally or irrationally,
logically or at random,
often intuitively.
Wise is he who considers first
the consequences of his actions.
For we do fashion our destiny,
like it or not....

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Categories: nitpicking, anxiety, conflict, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bugs
tweaking
and nitpicking
computer bugs...

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Categories: nitpicking, people,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Three
The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Three

Note:  I do hope it’s clear to readers by now that – strictly speaking – in these...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nitpicking, allegory,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Lunchtime At the Nursing Home
Hungry for munchies, on his way to the lunchroom, 
a rambunctious, persnickety,“fuss-budget”, elderly
jittery, fidgety, geezer, named Cassidy…
whose questionable dexterity, aghast by a massive sneeze,
teeter-tottered precariously....

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Categories: nitpicking, funny, people, old, old,
Form: Narrative
Workshop Poem:Disaster
Bad evils are flying in my stomach.
Inferno is burning out and reaching its  apex in my heart.
My nitpicking mind is calculating the pain of...

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Categories: nitpicking, anger, confusion, depression, identity,
Form: I do not know?



Jasmines of Love
Jeopardy of love's jasmines
Attitude threatens the petals 
Stable and sweet one moment
Miserable the next
Inner insecurities
Nitpicking on trivialities 
Ectacy of passion yet resets 
Smoothly falling in...

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Categories: nitpicking, art,
Form: Acrostic
Workshop Poem:Disaster
Bad evils are flying in my stomach.
Inferno is burning out and reaching its  apex in my heart.
My nitpicking mind is calculating the pain of...

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Categories: nitpicking, anger, confusion, depression, identity,
Form: I do not know?
A Present To Myself
I wallow in self-hate pitifully often
Nitpicking every single flaw I have 
But sometimes when I observe myself
From outside my body
I admire myself 
My sturdy vessel...

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© Ree Tan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nitpicking, beautiful, beauty, confidence, dark,
Form: Free verse
Bouts of Apathy
Have you ever felt like you were wasting your time
Like knowledge doesn't matter
Like understanding is overrated
You have no gold spoon & no silver platter
Going through...

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© Andre Bolt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nitpicking, confusion, introspection, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Small Talk
I woke up to the sound of the keyboard clicking
I went ahead and arose and I'm not nitpicking

It wasn't long after that a friend of...

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Categories: nitpicking, friendship, perspective, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Frame Shot
Anyone can work a camera,
the ability to shoot and click.

It's another thing entirely
to find the shots no one takes.

The angle, to find beauty 
in the...

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Categories: nitpicking, love, beauty, beauty,
Form: Narrative
Take It To the Limit
Take it to the limit
If you must
Do a dance,
Show your stance,
Make a fuss.

Jump about
Scream and shout
Go ahead
Let it out...

Take it to the limit, if you...

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Categories: nitpicking, people, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rant of the Day
it’s exasperating and makes my stomach churn
there’s a brand new prejudice at every turn
looking at others out of the corner of our eye
all this nitpicking...

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Categories: nitpicking, anger, conflict, judgement, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Chess Game
Who will make a move first.
The world of chess is in the courts.
Can we really give an appeal and pay our lawyer for trust.
It’s your...

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Categories: nitpicking, care, christian, evil, games,
Form: Rhyme
Working
Working

Don’t like working 
‘Cause it’s really such a bore.
Don’t like meeting deadlines,
‘Cause they’re really such a chore.
Don’t like attending meetings all day long,
Since you just...

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Categories: nitpicking, humor, work,
Form: Rhyme

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