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Best Short Fuse Poems

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Premium Member One-Way Ticket To Midnight
Let the final countdown begin
Proxy war in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia vs. Iran 
India vs Pakistan
Sunni vs Shia
The 38th divide of Korea 
China taking over the sea...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: short fuse, death, war,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Handle With Care
Everywhere we see the signs,
Unstable, Fragile, Caution;
So why don't people have such signs,
So folks know to take precautions.

For some folks have a real short fuse,
That's...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: short fuse, people,
Form: Quatrain
Face To Face With a Nameless Dame
Hold your fire
Let your sharp tongue retire
When to the fore sneaks your ire

Increasing carelessness danger
Thinking in your mind you’re an indomitable ranger
Although in your own...

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Categories: short fuse, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God and Man - the Great Divide
Compare the evidence of a real divide
so far apart are truly God and man
the comparisons are really traumatic
consider all that covers this great span

God is...

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Categories: short fuse, god, humanity, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Caution - Handle With Care
Everywhere we see the signs,
Unstable, Fragile, Caution,
So why don't people have such signs,
So folks can take precautions.

Some folks have a real short fuse,
That's sometimes unsuspected,
And...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: short fuse, people,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Understanding Fear
When someone less fortunate begs from you,
there's more to their pain than the eye can see.
Maybe you should carefully think it through
before angrily dismissing their...

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Categories: short fuse, 12th grade, anxiety, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Case of the Blues
The world's changing so fast
forever dreams no longer tend to last.
Time somehow slips away,
it seemed, but yesterday
life was all about play,
and yet, those moments all...

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Categories: short fuse, age, angst, anxiety, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Blew It Away Like the Sand
So I have some things, that I just have to say,
but please do not take me in the wrong way,
I have this tiny little problem,...

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Categories: short fuse, abuse, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Jane's Bane
Jane was renown for her very short fuse

   'Specially when she was sozzled with booze

      She relished a...

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Categories: short fuse, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Chortles and Chuckles
A magic elixir for the heart,
a good laugh helps you survive.
For when the effervescent smiles start,
laughter keeps whimsical thoughts alive.

A contagious outrageous feeling,
laughter begins with...

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Categories: short fuse, cheer up, giggle, happiness,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Winter Sleep
My grandfather
Worked hard all his life
And died
When I was 
Away.

I remember him 
Sitting in the dark
By the kitchen stove
On cold winter nights 
Rubbing his calloused...

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Categories: short fuse, lifeold, work, winter, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member These Redneck Guys In Georgia
I’m not a redneck, but in Georgia I attract them like flies.
They all have the best pickup truck that money can buy.
With heavy southern accents,...

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Categories: short fuse, desire, funny, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Eat Welsh Rarebit
I know what you want to order for dinner, Welsh Rarebit.
But if you order it again, I swear that I'll have a fit.
You sleep in...

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Categories: short fuse, food, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
My Complaint Against Christian Fundamentalism
Fundamentalists have misinterpreted the wise men,
Magnified them and blown up their faith in god,
Claim that the magi had an epiphany, heard from above,
In searching for,...

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Categories: short fuse, baby, celebration, christian, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Between Bill and Me
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if i were an invisible hood
a flight to Washington is my mood
i'd sneak into Bill Gates
snatch his billion crates
and snoop on secrets hushed by rich...

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Categories: short fuse, adventure, funny
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things