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Premium Member Things That Annoy Me
...I reckon you could call me an old curmudgeon but that's alright!
I've been around four score and three and I have earned that right!
There are many things that annoy me but I'll mention just a few.
H......

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Categories: rankles, how i feel, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Christmas Story From Germany
...‘Twas the night before Christmas in the little town of Oberflugelschweinsaxenmitcracklingewurst.
(There are some that are much longer; it isn’t the worst)

Now hier ist ze haus of ze happy family ......

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Categories: rankles, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member BELLS
...
From the smallest of handbells to bells that are heavy,
bells of all types make a large bevy.

Small bells are often the tinkling kind
like decorative ones in some stores we find.

There are ......

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Categories: rankles, analogy,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Unwritten Absence
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She came into our lives unbidden, 
A pleasant surprise, 
Her open heart was never hidden
From her soulful eyes;

She won our hearts with her gentle love, 
Always filled with grace......

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Categories: rankles, dog, missing you, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who Are You
...A tiny fish in vast ocean,
Desirous to swim at liberty,
Direction and depth beyond measure,
Delicate with shiny witty eyes is me,
My Upma to a fish stands real true.

I am a thunder in the sky ......

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Categories: rankles, simile, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member School Clothes
...The clothes that I'll describe, my age I'll surely reveal.
Recalling clothes worn to school back then now seems surreal!
Not to sport the latest fad, you weren't one of the 'ins'.
Your were a soci......

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Categories: rankles, funnyclothes,
Form: Rhyme



No Doubt
...people fail to deliver a job with honesty and industrious nature.
when they died, they carried pain and raised worrying rankles,
children never face them,  they find the practice has no true feature.......

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Categories: rankles, caregiving, education, relationship,
Form: Terza Rima
A Birthday Letter
..._______

Well now this is sad and tragic 
For both of us to hear 
You and I at cross purposes 
Ever our fate, my Dear

I just found your correspondence
Last letter that you sent 
It was, I t......

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© Nad Simon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rankles, lost love, love, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Come O Rain Come
...Come O rain come, throw your showers 
On this part of earth and do not run
All the simple inhabitants of our villages, towns and cities
Are waiting for you with tears in their eyes
Come O rain co......

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Categories: rankles, song-lyricgod, rain, prayer, earth,
Form: Free verse
A Letter To My Son
...A LETTER TO MY SON

Listen son 
Thinking about the memories you have of me
The memories that rankles
It rankles as long as we sniffle off air
Air of life and eternity 

A wave of guilt and re......

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Categories: rankles, abuse, betrayal, child, child
Form: Bio
Premium Member Sally Doolally
...This is the story of Sally Doolally
A young maiden farmer from down in the valley
She kept a keen eye out for Thomas McNally
And dreamed of the day he would say, ‘Can we marry?’

Sally Doolally ......

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Categories: rankles, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Recondite
...Defunctive smoke
From the brain
Rankles the soul:
An eternity of ignorance.

There are no marrams for skin.

Marquetry of bones
Intricacy assumes
Hoodwinking eyes
That see only nudes.

Wh......

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© Pin Dew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rankles, allusion, dark, horror, philosophy,
Form: Imagism
Syntax
...Words.
They rattle my soul this mourning,
This slim redemptive moment held with in the hands
Of the clock – that lesser god who rankles low the
The vibration of the street; the movement
Of the s......

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© Joe Dinki  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rankles, devotion, food, happiness,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Inviting the Undead
...Signal in the sky
A pumpkin, fierce, glowing
Showing teeth

Tells of a certain graveyard
Where the dead moves again

Ghosts float
Chains rankles along the ground
Surely causing noise

The ......

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Categories: rankles, holiday, life,
Form: Rengay
Rankles Within
...We try to forget those who harm

With words which cause us alarm..

For it rankles within,

May even cause sin.

Like a snake which may bite or may charm.

 

A festering wound must be cl......

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Categories: rankles, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry