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Premium Member Helen Marie Petulant Clown
Helen Marie was a petulant clown
Pettish, prickly, persnickety all around
She got upset at every perceived double cross
She was especially upset with her brother Ross

She is cantankerous and crotchety her mother said.
Because of her curmudgeonly ways, she needs to go to bed.
But Helen did not agree,...

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Categories: petulant, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Petulant
Petulant
Limerick
Written: by Miracle Man
7/7/2018 

I once knew a man, who was cranky and petulant,
But not once was it said that he was malevolent.
His emotions did rise,
Like heat to the skies,
It was whispered by others he wasn’t benevolent;...

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Categories: petulant, emotions,
Form: Limerick
Petulant Midday Sun

The petulant midday sun
Raging, blazing, vindictive orbit at its zenith 
It's blinding glare, a white hot disc
Scorching and oppressive 
Over the earth and living ones 
A merciless sentinel in the cerulean sky 
Wrapping us in its stifling embrace
A shimmering mirage dancing in the air.
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Categories: petulant, earth, imagery, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Petulant
You always wanted me to be
That girl I always refused to be....

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Categories: petulant, abuse, childhood, growing up,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member Being Petulant
Being Petulant
Written: by Tom Wright
January 2015


My mirror projects the face of an angry man,
One that stress is exhausting as rapidly as it can.

I exist in a place, now believing, I don’t belong,
Each day, is a repeat, of a familiar sad song.

I know it isn’t others...

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Categories: petulant, anger, stress,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry