Best Smugness Poems

We've all seen it
their cloying intensity
to the new cause:
tobacco cessation,
gluten-free digestion,
mindful rumination,
deep cleanse elimination,
erotic poetry,
for the lucky
erotic reality,
alcohol abstinence,
Yahweh's deliverance.
And we can only
smile and nod
knowing
this...

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(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the...

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I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.

I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slurs...

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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. 
John Burroughs

bursts of anger once ruined me,
my...

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You took my happy and you made it sad
You took the words I wrote and made them bad
You took my dreams and turned them into...

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Dependence and independence
(Humanity verses individualism)
The independence from dependence is the soul core of human affliction  
The disconnection of the soul, mind and body is...

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Retired but not retarded
Sure like to make that distinction
One doesn't necessarily follow the other
Though many have that opinion

Sent out to pasture, some say
Another that's very...

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My sadness looks much like your sadness I suspect,
And most do not see the difference in my smile
Because my soul is too frozen these days
To...

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I. God desires your faith my dear, 
Sorry, I just know it's true, 
It's not really in my pay grade 
To explain God's love to...

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White Van Man

White van driver, he couldn’t give a damn
Oh how I wish that he would scram
From lofty heights he owns the road
He’s deft at...

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Old Shoe Box And Broken Candle

My great boldness keeps hammering on down
like blacksmith's hits on anvil it rings.
So loudly, it barks echoes around this town
forwarding...

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Vengeance



And I’ll get mine in glorified splendour 

And you’ll get yours in the torture

Punishment I can’t wait for

As I sit back, all smugness

Praying for the...

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Acid reflux ~ 7:00 post meridiem September 24th, 2019

Ah... nothing more enjoyable than acidic gastric fluid flowing backward into esophagus, resulting in heartburn, disrupting pleasant...

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Went to the ROM last weekend

The Royal Ontario Museum

An absolute and total eye opener for sure

We, with our sophisticated smugness

With our feeling of superiority

Emboldened by...

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Secret knowledge divulged, transportation via Oracle. 
Open your closed minds, decipher the great parable. 
Order out of chaos, alpha point of eternity. 
Mirthful muse master,...

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