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Best Tongue Lashing Poems

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Tongue Lashing
Fiercely his tongue lashed.
Head bowed her spirit bleeds out.
Invisible cut....

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© Ross Blade  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tongue lashing, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: tongue lashing, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nature's Wild Child
Rain’s riot banishes peace of mind day,
Deluge damning dumps devious rage wet.
Storm, summer rain's wild child pours on display;
Lightning fierce, firing fitful since sunset,
Bass booming...

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Categories: tongue lashing, nature, rain, storm, summer,
Form: Ottava rima
Late Night Preacher
I began to preach at ten
but had no idea why so late,
soon it would be dark, I thought,
and wondered why
it was not so already.
Several apathies...

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Categories: tongue lashing, day, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Scar
“Only girls cry!…Oh, boo hoo!” laughed my brother, (as big brothers often do)
 He had been taunting me, teasing me, heckling me, as I whined,...

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Categories: tongue lashing, brother, childhood, day, little
Form: Narrative



Tongue Ode
the tongue is just another muscle
gives strength to what we think
amidst life's daily hustle bustle
helps thoughts to words interlink

so the father with his mother tongue
speaks...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tongue lashing, food, funny, health, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Time Out To Mourn
Excuse me while I take time out to mourn

     I can see the headlines tomorrow morn

     ...

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Categories: tongue lashing, funny, sports,
Form: Limerick
Who Am I, I Am a Monster
pestilence restlessness sedatives
represent my main directives
presentment made me infected
selective systematic collective
medative hesitation effects my relevance
like hell needs a prince
never accept limits
convince me long since
i should...

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Categories: tongue lashing, angst, death, depression, education,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Remembering the Scar
“Only girls cry!…Boo hoo!” 
"Look at you"  he taunted me, (as big brothers often do)
Making a mockery. He kept teasing me, heckling me, 
as...

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Categories: tongue lashing, brother, day, family, little
Form: Narrative
Why Aren'T You Saving More For Retirement
Why Aren’t You Saving More for Retirement?

By Elton Camp

Economists are giving a tongue-lashing
Good sense of the public they’re trashing

Unless much more for retirement you save
You’ll...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tongue lashing, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Ring of Power
Ring of power

Ring of power enhances it,
Gives it volume just a bit,
Getting bigger will it fit,
8 inch round is ole Tom tit,

Obsession comes when you...

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Categories: tongue lashing, addiction, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Moscow Shop Girl's Anger
MOSCOW SHOP GIRL’S ANGER

Never knew quite what wind blew up her skirt
Maybe the way I dressed or my shoe’s unbrushed  dirt
Like a woman scorned,...

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Categories: tongue lashing, angst, funny,
Form: Couplet
Defeated
Have you ever 
experienced a back 
lashing?
By a thick, pliable whip?
It's nothing compared to 
her tongue lashing,
An egregiously scalding 
dip.

Have you ever carried 
a 
thorny...

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Categories: tongue lashing, faith
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Run a Way Train
Coocoo chacoo!

Well, you’d think a blithering idiot 
got hold of my governor controls……..
You’d think Watt had never invented a throttle for my mouth
Of course, no...

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Categories: tongue lashing, passion, political, social
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dazed
a drop of my blood fills my tears,
tears that roll down my  cheek, past
the frozen  expression glued to my face,
standing weak kneed before you, feeling...

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Categories: tongue lashing, introspection,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things