Best Rancour Poems

Upon those who yield to anger, I should take pity
because words they spit are like sandpaper, gritty.
A loathsome temper causes them to fume and fret,
sometimes churlish ones spew what they will regret.

Restraining venom is an idea some are unable to grok.
Fury is the key to...

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Written: July 28, 2023,               No anchor for Rancour Poetry Contest          
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Persistency of grudge, grinding you down
Animosity causing permanent frown
Ill will causing bile to rise
Living like that isn't wise

Let it all go, float away on the breeze
Sail past the conflict with a sense of ease
Shed that weight of debilitating rancour
Freely move past it, resist setting anchor

Make...

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My heart’s harbour opened deep and wide
all friendships peaceful within
Love and kindness ran deep inside
‘til resentment and rancour crept in

Do you harbour resentment?
or do you freely forgive?
Forgiveness keeps the sea 
lanes open and free 
so all of us can love and live

Resentment leads to rancour
Rancour...

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No anchor for rancour would do us all good.
Malice and bitterness should have no place
in this world of ours. We need brotherhood -
with love and forgiveness – our saving grace.

Take your resentments and any ill will.
In a container place them air-tight
till that container you no...

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The rocks on the sea bed
Can be friendly in storms
When our sails are bedraggled
Or all tattered and torn

From our voyage on seas
Often left unexplored
But there's truth in the water
That cannot be ignored

In the wind is the Spirit
An adventurer's friend
So we move in directions
To where searching...

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Stirrings of heart in poems symbolised,
creations crafted as heartfelt emote,
oft by narrow minds cursorily sized,
since heart and head ride in different boats.
Nonchalant to criticism, we do float
as a bliss mist, in joyful innocence,
engaging not in this churlish parlance.
The jibes and taunts whizz by us harmlessly;
our...

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Rancour is a canker
That eats us from within
Bitterness and anger*
Are sure to cause chagrin

Malice is a chalice
From which we should not drink
It will turn us callous
With hearts tuned out of sync

Hanker not for rancour
Let love rule our mind tunes
Forgiveness, the anchor
In life's wildest typhoons

Hope is...

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"Learn to consider the source ... of rancour and 
ignore.  All tantrums don't require your reaction."

                           Quote...

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Unmet expectations damage the dormant psyche,
unkept promises smother the rays of fading hope, 
unkind words tear the lattice of the mangled mind,
life then turns into an urn of fabricated resentment.

The sane senses become the fast spreading wild fire, 
uncontrolled, it boils the blood of intrinsic...

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Gently flows fond thoughts that be
Above the stones of malice
From heart to hand tis given free
As peace within beauty’s earthly chalice
Impeccable in its wildness and jubilee

Searching skies of tendered blue
Each cloud untouched does softy gleam
Mountains, rocks and rills ring true
Nature’s gift so flawlessly streams
Offering reverent...

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Long-lasting anger, bitterness, and spite
Sometimes can penetrate the heart and mind
To taint the joys of others' earned delight.
If left, can sink its anchor deep to find
Its permanent aversion- to be kind.
Then, like a ship that's firmly kedged at sea-
Entrapped by vicious waves and cannot flee,
That...

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The thorny bush of resentment enwraps my heart and soul,
Suppressing the blooms of joy that try to spread their petals;
Like hemlocks, nightshades, castor beans, and oleander knolls,
It poisons my pure environs blemishing fine fettles...!

I'm enraged, often, my inner equilibrium gone,
I am imprisoned in the jail...

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Anchors without rancour are rare today.
They don’t just report rumors, they dissect some.
Men like Brinkley and Huntley, anchors aweigh, 
anchors without rancour.

They steer clear of party-lines with no humdrum.
No newshawk floored CBS such a long stay 
as Walter Cronkite whose candor ranks as plumb. 

War...

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If only the archangel Gabriel
would visit and with holy host proclaim
“Children of Creation, let there be
no anchor for rancor in the Dead Sea,
nor fuel for cruelty in Bethlehem;
let people enjoy temple, steeple, and mosque,
live their lives and their loves without mayhem,”
perhaps the shredding shrapnel that...

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