Best Petty Poems

But they already had a cat
ME
Meow
How could they
Making me share my chow
My bed
My toy rat with the ripped head
My nip, my nap, my blue blanket with the frayed ribbon

I don't know if I can ever forgive em.

But they already had a reader in the group
ME
M...

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They try to shrink the world into their 
Deplorable size   
For to magnify their insignificant selves as great men
To appear to be

But

They fall into the abyss of vindictive 
Vanity
Where lost shall they remain into
Eternity! 



© Demetrios Trifiatis
 17 MARCH 2014



* Dedicated to fair...

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it may be petty
reading and not commenting
Reciprocity?...

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The Petty Posh-Wahzee - Liberation & Ostentation


The Not-So Distant Past:

The fallen fighters for freedom, are unable to turn in their graves,
their battered, fragmented bones, mixed with a handful of torn rags,
are all that remain, a mute reminder of their selfless valiant sacrifice.

They endured brutal Apartheid...

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Your actions are so cruel
So calculated and quick
Within an instant 
You take what you want
Because you feel entitled
You've destroyed trust 
In those you should be closest to
By coveting others 
Your needs outweigh 
Close relationships and bonds

Why must you destroy 
Others memories of joy
Be taking treasured...

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I had just woken up feeling great
like I barely had gained any weight.
But not so says my scale!!
The despair I can't quell.
So I go pile more food on a plate.

Next, the car on a side street I spy
pulls out quickly in front of me. Why?
I'd...

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"The Petty Coat Checkmate"

out out damn spot

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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Petty people lurking, preying on us all
Watching, waiting for someone good to fall
Staying out of sight, but never very far
Thinking they can influence feelings left ajar
Standing tall and strong, never showing fear
Maybe the best reply is to grin from ear to ear
Petty people lurking, hiding...

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When you look in the mirror, you count each imperfection you can find instead of the lovely details you truly hold. You feel too short, too tall, too skinny, too fat. You see acne and tangled hair, chipped nail polish on your delicate fingertips and...

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Whispers passing from broken ear to broken ear.
Words laced with knives ready to pierce.
the devil's comedy station.

Malicious smiles mask the pain of the last blow.
Snarky remarks through all mediums.
Words of hate in black flashing letters lay upon a colorful screen.
Or sayings of detest flying around.

I...

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The reason that she didn’t come to my last poetry reading
Was that I had but faintly praised her hat.
It was a monstrous thing which  Mrs. Thatcher,
 the Queen most certainly, would have shunned.
It was sort of like a jerry-built bird’s nest
Jammed full of something...

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you gave me my girl
but you treat her like a pawn
to get back at me...

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Where there is a petty imitation
There'll be pests, posters of sensation
Grouping of hesitations
Complaints to order, servings of hallucinations
There'll be soap-box amatory slander
About walking coat-hangers slender
It ain't working girl, it's a waling green guile
By his friend in business uptown a mile
By his wife who paints her...

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There's a mouse 
That wanted a house
Her name was Betty
And she was petty
She had a friend named Patty 
Oh, they were both very petty...

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In her ivory tower, she was raised,
A sheltered child, a life of ease,
But Alice's tale, Lorina's heart had seized,
Her mind now set on a different phase.

Married at twenty to a man much too old,
Her life as a trophy wife grew stale,
And so she plotted, her...

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