Best Remonstrating Poems

Why can't I do it how I want to do it?
Been told my rhymes are sophomoric - at best
I may violate pentameter but I write what I like
Why must it pass some journal's vapid test?

Behind a block of writers I've been hiding
Cowed by thoughts of...

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"Front On"

I am in your thoughts
night and day 
you try to dismiss me
but there I stay
like a tap dripping
all night 

and when you’re in 
the shower of your 
remonstrating psyche
comes the morning
when you break the wake
the water caresses you

and there I am again 

with your...

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I can feel spring is in the air today.
I hear my garden remonstrating me.
Please come out here and clear these leaves away.
Bulbs are beginning to bud, come and see. 
Rose bushes need pruned, the trestle is falling.
"Wake up! Get moving!" the garden's calling....

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Now that he is your saviour
The President, the Governor, and the Cauncillor
Who would save your country from corruption and war
He is indeed president of the poor
Or governor of the poor
Or councilor of the poor
For he understands situation of the poor
Moreover, he is once poor

Now that...

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Christmas at Sea. 

Once I was kicked by a mule, as I was remonstrating, 
a dog interfered and bit my ankle. There is something 
deeply embarrassing to lose arguments to animals.
Guayaquil, Colombia, I hadn´t gone ashore for fun but to 
buy food stuff for the...

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Mentally challenged on a daily basis, preventing me talent to prevail. 
we status quo. Faithless drones. 
Wonder what it takes to make this go? 
I hate this flow, oughta take it slow. But hey ho.. Ay oh. 
That's the way ya like it? No! 
So.....

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Sometimes people live too close to one another
with the scent of lives overlapping lines
psyches stepping on toes and
problems bleeding in through doors & windows.

Neighbors crying, remonstrating, manipulating, and copulating 
demonstrating the need for soundproofing or renovating
as we wave the next day our smiles ingratiating
because its...

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Schlerotic schlemiel schleps...and says Shalom...

to anonymous readers March 6th, 2021
(blustery and chilly Saturday)
reminiscing about mien kampf,
when precious irretrievable youth
frittered away within
emotional wilderness of mine.

Into lonely senescence -
three plus decades already elapsed
trepidation, hesitation, abdication... unbearably
tugging, shouldering,
remonstrating accumulation
of "baggage" thumb

of right hand thrust out
silently raving, quaking
cursing ultimatum...

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WoodStock - Fifty Years Ago August 15-19, 2019

I knew nary a whit about
rock n roll history
soon to unfold August fifteen –
eighteen ninety sixty nine
mollycoddled, nestled,
obliviously preoccupied

bajillion miles away
attending Baker Park Day Camp
within Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
innocently naive shy lad
hidebound, yours truly
to prefer tried and true familiar turf

quite...

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Ongepatshket torqued skewed reflection

drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.

When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage 
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then instantaneously 
hairline fractures appear
than 'afore long 
snap, crackle, pop
becomes crystal clear,
whence aluminium glass mirror
(made of a float...

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Schlerotic schlemiel schleps...

Into lonely senescence -
three plus decades already elapsed
trepidation, hesitation unbearably
tugging, shouldering,
remonstrating accumulation
of "baggage" thumb

of right hand thrust out
silently raving, quaking
cursing ultimatum parents
(soffit to fascia in)
saw fit to fashion
and hammer home

red hot poker rage
their singular male offspring
middle child of two sisters,
who long since vacated...

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On the news today

The headline storyline was presented
and reported as follows

In Liverpool today some local right wing
protestors who's arms are up in flame's 
replacing pitchforks for placards 

Which was later retracted in place
of rabble of lawless youths one as 
young as just age 15

Causing and...

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Begging for help
Is better than slaving for help:
A poor poet with a gold heart,begs for help.
But a beggar on the remonstrating street,slaves for help.
         18:03:07:08:32...

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Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum

With a title deeply rooted
in subject matter iterated above
invariably makes for hair raising poem,
though I immediately attest said material
constitutes atypical topic
the writing process (with intent
to share bizarre pet peeve)
mildly cathartic to ameliorate
long established body dysmorphia,
(which...

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rusty year remonstrating
saline liquid scrunching
mild moans sighing
felon fate vying
peremptory peers tuning
sacred sorrow plotting

mild went wild
fate feign smile
past pulsing bile

lusty limbs lurching
la-de-da luck lustrating
lanky life leering

yawning year's yucks!
nocturnal new's numb.
        20:01:02:08:35

Note: An Adaptation of Walter Savage Landor's "Mild Is...

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