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Best Patronising Poems

Below are the all-time best Patronising poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of patronising poems written by PoetrySoup members


It's Abstract .
It seemed at first , a colour burst
Of dots and crooked lines ,
As I watched my "artful expert" 
See how he defines
The colourful expression
That is...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patronising, art
Form: Rhyme



Time Will Tell
TIME WILL TELL

A modest planet and quietly progressing
Troubling no other and fealty confessing
 Surviving well enough and paying its dues;
 Quiet corner of the galaxy....

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Categories: patronising, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
The Black Sheep
Pushed aside, location of home obscured, limited by isolation:
drifting aimlessly - subscribing to a voluntary incarceration.

Outcast by an alternative perspective, a differing sense of direction,
through...

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© Lee Price  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patronising, confusion, friendship, people, sad,
Form: Couplet
Overflow Infliction
Unswallowed lumps of lobster immodest
     Crustacean returns to pincers persimmon 
     Waitress whisk indiscernible clears linen 
...

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Categories: patronising, bullying, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanity Press
dear  mr. electrician
you're a man of distinction
thank you from me and the spouse
for rewiring our house.

you have worked hard
no wire out of place
you toiled...

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© Ken Duddle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patronising, funny, satire, work,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member It's a Mad World- In a Lancashire Accent
IT’S A MAD WORLD In a Lancashire Accent.

I went to the Confectioners today, there was a long queue outside, a metre apart, and it had...

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Categories: patronising, crazy, food, funny, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Justice Is Colour Blind
A blot they want to wash, detergents do not work
Ineffectual, institutional and cover ups a stir
Excuses abound, squirming hierarchy found 
"Its just a darkie, why...

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© Rob Carter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patronising, political, race, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Recipe For Antonym
"A Recipe for Antonym"



the opposite of 
didactic
ulterior motive
Elastic,  
bend over for receiving
patronising missives 
presumptuous, friendly and deadly
with lol and smiles
then genuflect
then somersault backwards
it’s part...

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Categories: patronising, abuse, bullying, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Is Disabled
Who is disabled?
Is it me, or is it you?
Should disability be based
On an anatomical stock-take,
Or based on what you can do?

For I can climb mountains,
I...

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Categories: patronising, deep, discrimination, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Before the Firing Squad
“Before The Firing Squad”



the firing squad 
came dressed
in faux smiles

the intervention cake 
was spoon fed, like honey,
by mother superior

to the lesser bee,
with self-righteous
magnanimity

she wore the...

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Categories: patronising, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Logins For Me, Me, Me
Login’s For Me, Me, Me!

Some carers are shite, debasing and all that, not fit, 
Because just when I’m speeding to end my session, 
When they’ve...

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Categories: patronising, angst, caregiving, computer, discrimination,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Sugar Coated Lies
You’re a liar and a cheat
Just like a dog on heat

You lurk behind a cobweb thin disguise
and try so hard to fool the guys
But I’ve...

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Categories: patronising, betrayal, deep, for her,
Form: Lyric
Open Letter To a Tory Minister's Wife - From One Wife To Another - Part 1
Do you ever worry about? 
Some of the things that I see
Happening to hard working, decent families -
Or can you not imagine? 

Here is a...

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Categories: patronising, betrayal, political, mum,
Form: Rhyme
The Inner Voice of Mark Birros: Excerpt From Epic Poem.
With that invisibilty of age
I can fly my life like a kite !
Uninvited and unseen,
albescent, grey, you know what I mean,
( not the first flush...

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© Roy Austin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: patronising, introspection, life, love, mystery,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Ps - He's a Bully Boy
I was a total novice when I joined the site
hadn’t got a clue what was wrong or right
You were arrogant with overbearing bravado
patronising me, saying...

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Categories: patronising, anti bullying, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs