Best Tactless Poems

The Lying Tongue
sang a song
The Flattering Tongue
played along
The Know It All Tongue
intended the composition
The Meddling Tongue
held it's position
The Harsh Tongue
kept quiet for once
The Tactless Tongue
reluctantly obliged 
The Rude Tongue
got annoyed
The Loquatious Tongue
was soon overjoyed
The Discouraging Tongue
hummed on
The Self-Depreciating Tongue
became withdrawn
The Argumentative Tongue
thought it all wrong
The...

Continue reading...

Zany insanity,
he’s a buffoon from the moon-
Quipster and hipster,
he’s a complicated pantaloon.
Prankster gangster,
tactless with madness-
Wisecracker and entertainer
is he fun, or full of sadness? 

He’s humorous and caddy, 
frivolous yet crabby-
Gabby and a chump,
a lark and real tacky.
Life of the party,
wears pants full of smarty-
A cracker-upper,
always...

Continue reading...

Martha was rudely awaken on Monday morning
With the phone call we all dread
“Mrs Palmer we regret to inform you
That your husband Edward is dead”
She thought that it was tactless
The way she had been told
Couldn’t they have said ‘passed away'?
Instead of being so bold
She dressed in...

Continue reading...

Crowds and noise and people enthralled me
When I had deciduous teeth.
And a simple thought of loneliness 
Engendered collywobbles in me.

How amicable people look when viewed with jejune eyes!

Blanketing all kinds under pristine
and untarnished label
Without contemplations and with profound celebrations,
Labelling the sweeter tongues 'good'
And tactless simpletons...

Continue reading...

No Anchor for Rancor

Wounded the ship of my soul, 
With tattered sails,
Heels up in malevolence,
Venom puffs out the jib
In leeward grudges of tactless spite
On a pointless reach 
Heading up into retaliation.

Heart hardened sends out a deep tap root,
Like a dagger board,
For my blustering hubris
To drop...

Continue reading...

Take a breath just pretend to light a cigarette
Mind your every thought so that you'll not regret
Avoid a tactless comment that might go south
Remember ~ a fly does not enter a closed mouth



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on August 11, 2019 for contest ROMANI PROVERB sponsored...

Continue reading...

You may call me harsh or even wicked
But I am more than it because I am crooked.
I may look self indulgent or resentful,
But now I am transformed into someone more powerful.

Fearless! I call me,
Fearless I say
I am not afraid of anything,
No more aloofness,no more hearts...

Continue reading...

William the First was our last king to come uninvited
though invincible armadas have sometimes been sighted.

Foreign kings were imported in cases of doubt.
Native kings had the habit of getting thrown out.

In the War of the Roses none tipped the scales
till the fray was joined by...

Continue reading...

perfectionism: the fragrance.
be an ideal vial
of toilet water.
discover little dainties 
in pock-marked
hand-held
facades.
purge your persona 
with the devil’s 
details.

flippancy: the fashion.
be a toothpick-skewered
single-serving 
euphemism.
be sampled
and rimmed about on gossip’s lips.
paw 
for the choicest brown
velvet 
neck-caressing
reassurance.

double-standard: the sexiness.
be a pretty ogre
pitchfork hordes
fashioned 
at a wink.
tactless
hunch-back
spasms in each...

Continue reading...

A small study lamb, 
a tea cup with sharpened lead pencils 
(number two),
 polished wooden panels:
walls dressed in masks
 (African vodun mugs).  

An old stone fireplace with
portrait of a colored girl 
dancing above stained hardwood mantel.

Mimi, with a mind as dull as the room,
hung...

Continue reading...

SHOCKING!!!!!!!! WHAT? THAT?


Bad taste?
They know not what is at stake
They do as they please
Then later beg for forgiveness
A right sin
And a dismal business

Nothing is shocking anymore
To thump each other
They go to the extremes of bad taste
The exotic of the past
Is now the mundane of today

To...

Continue reading...

The nation is very rich indeed
 But,
 Wounded out of loss direction;
 Wounded out of lack of ambition,
 Weeping out of lack of impulse;
 Wounded out  of  lack  of imagination,
 Ingeniously exhumed out of the citadel of corruption;
 While the funereal ultimately...

Continue reading...

Loss

Heartless
Tactless
Senseless
Loveless
Lonely is the Heartless, Tactless mind.
Knowing only Senseless, Loveless time.


1/26/18


Your Turn For A Tyburn
Sponsored by: charles messina...

Continue reading...

I have known this girl for quite long.
Been friends for years tied with strong thong.
Had hundreds of pictures with cool bonds.
Share deep stories like a ionic bond.

No dull moments when I’m with her.
She’s real friend hiding with no fur.
Tells things if it’s not getting on...

Continue reading...

Another blazing steel
That  carve wounds which don’t fully heal
Besides those of Big Brother Rape
Whose injurious  clutch very few escape.

A pointing finger by forensic evidence maintained
About your grips of her blouse stained
And infuriating caresses of a waist
You were scheming to morally waste;
Playable, her taped...

Continue reading...