Best Rebuttals Poems

Written with admiration for Tom Cunningham ~ a gentle poet
maligned by one who really casts an aura of darkness


My smile is genuine and reaches to...

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Boys do boys BREAKS toys.  Knick knack paddy wack. Give. A dog. A bone.
Some say the things that boys do are wrong and even...

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Why, yes, that’s a picture of me there
You cannot believe I was once fair
     Just look at your belly
  ...

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It started off simple enough - a peck on the cheek.
(nothing tantalizing by any means)
But then she did that delicious something

... that made my whole...

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‘PURPLE NIRVANA JOURNAL’
Dedicated to the legendary Kurt Cobain—(20 February 1967—5 April 1994)
		
“What else could I write—I don’t have the right.....”
Words are a big pile of...

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In an otherwise
uneventuful
morning, between the
roles we locked 
eyes, bantering 
without 
mincing words, allowing 
futures, names, and
rebuttals to 
stem from our hearts 
unmuffled, and 
mingle.

A fearless...

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Obstinate eyes, worn I, dart shadows wished pretend,  
Spun ‘round by carousel, too quick for lines to bend,
See only empty space no shackled dare...

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Rile up the rifling rowdies
at the Red River rawhide rally
A new Mustang Sally came rip-roaring muscling in
from the lower Staten Island end of Stalingrad
Treachery forged...

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I’d say something cheesy, like: You light up my life. But, there is no light in these veins. There is only blood; an ever coursing...

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If your ego is capacious
Or your appetite voracious
For a plucky, pertinacious
Confidence in cherished creeds,
Then your genius, though sagacious,
Conjures arguments audacious
Never seeing they’re fallacious:
Truth be told,...

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This morning came and I arose to open my eyes ….

I left little to the imagination; because there you stood to my surprise …

Oh how...

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rain falls today as we accept 
the dark clouds of change

puddles of blood reach the eye 
of the storm once well hidden

my galoshes are like...

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AT THE MIDNIGHT POWER

As a writer I seek sanctuary in every sentence, sentiment and syllable spoken
As a man I possess a soul bought, bastardized and...

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Amongst giants, humbled, we become others.
Confidently content, no need for rebuttals.

Amongst giants, silence, for he is quiet by nature.
Similarities are subtle, for we have the...

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When the challenge has become the quest
The pressure is great to outshine
The fear tries to crawl to the surface
Again will I fall victim to my...

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