Best Scolding Poems

For Miranda Lambert’s “Inspired” contest
By Carolyn Devonshire


I wanted to write for this contest;
But my muse was staging a protest.
     “Take me to the sea,” it pled,
     “In this house, I languish, dead;
Put me in touch with nature,...

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                                 Winter and spring had a fight.
      ...

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full on leisured day 
blue sky, cool water,sunset 
turned on fiery red...

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Crash. 
Pounding. 
I Hit Him,
Sinking nails in. 
His Wails soar Louder.
My Frustrations Leave Me;
For now, I feel Less Alone.
Delightful Dirges always help...
But then my Mom Storms in, Hands on Hips.
"Bethani Dianne, turn that Piano Down!"...

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Husbands are in heaven 
when wives scold not
they think they are in leven
when wives scold hot 

yet who you are
and what you do
is really not 
just up to you

when husbands 
do the dealing wrong 
we need told off 
for whats done wrong

What you see 
is...

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A choice

Without choice

No question arose

For this birthing

In blackness and

Sharp voices 

Scolding the choice..



Regrets

For the choice arose

Imagined alternatives

Without sharpness

Without edges of an

Imagined identity..



Masks worn with

Pride and misgiving

Pain and elation

Comfort and shame

Colored to perfection

The separation game..



Yet in winding down

Appearances of memories

Flash and fade

No answers are found

To questions...

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Scolding parents all sin,for he or she no Paradise to win,a son to this son to born to make he this same sin!...

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easiest to take a bite off peanut now
rather than wait until they are stashed for winter
chipmunk wife gives husband scolding
he is now working fast enough to suit...

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I was in my chemistry class (lecture #2) and the professor was asking a series of questions. At first, hands were flying up, the answers were easy. But as questions got more complex, and the odds of being right fell off, confidence and raised-hands faltered....

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