Best Tsuris Poems

Without first-hand experience
We cannot comprehend
What others might be going through,
Although we can pretend

To understand the way they feel
As if we do belong
In circumstances similar;
If so, we would be wrong.

For everybody’s tsuris*
Is peculiar and unique,
Indescribable to others,
Though comparisons we seek.

We suffer in our different ways
And find...

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Getting together with girlfriends entails,
Aside from the obvious – eating!
Discussions of life and the various ways
We fill time up that seems to be fleeting.

Of course, we compare all our upcoming trips
For our journeys are different and take us
Within the U.S. or across the big pond
Where...

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A magnet for tsuris

Summation notation of achievements
wrought absolute zero
pridefulness to self -
a veritable highstrong yoyo
(lame at walking the dog)
a solitudinarian devoid of xoxo
methinks (writer of these words)
Hebrew a legacy of woe
courtesy self apathy
expanding across his mein kampf
on a broader scale
analogous to predicted fallout from Project...

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