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Gripes Poems - Poems about Gripes


Premium Member Hernley Grouses and Gripes
I wanted a larger sombrero, the spoiled child said. Weird since she had a ten-gallon hat on her head That’s all you are getting, her mother said sternly. But she kept grousing and griping, this child named Hernly. Her grandmother said “Fine, I will take the hat as my own.” Hernly had such a fit, she was soon all alone Except...

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Categories: gripes, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member it's what's wrong
Maybe I’m too simple or too shallow but I’m not angry. What’s wrong with me? I was trying to think of someone I hate, Jews, CIS guys, republicans, palestinians, blacks, democrats, the left handed, authority figures, central americans, parents, vagrants, the usual suspects, but I’m coming up empty Things aren’t perfect don’t get me wrong I’ve got a pug nose a flat chest a giant forehead and too much work to...

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Categories: gripes, humor, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse



Grocery Shopping Gripes
She’d a shopping list in her bag Long since lost in the mess But she could remember it vaguely… Dammit .... she’d just have to guess She grabbed a trolley out of the garden It squealed and it see-sawed No wonder because one of the wheels Went backward instead of forward She shot in through the doorway And breathed a deep breath in Her total...

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Categories: gripes, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Airing My Gripes
Airing My Gripes Written: by The Whiner 1/18/2021 We’ve arrived at a place where we’ve mail in voting, and media's become a politics machine. Most every state now, has legalized gun toting, a rock and a hard place we’re now living between. Protesters riot, loot and history erase, and liberal cities vote to defund police. Our monuments and Capitol we now deface, and one has...

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Categories: gripes, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Gut Gripes
Gut Gripes There is a man who eats hand grenades. They go Kaboom! in his big fat belly. You ask why does he eat them? He's got a slight indigestion problem. A trip to the doctors gave no joy. As did anti acid tablets. Changing his diet helped for a while. But his stomach gripes returned twice as bad. Then he remembered the box...

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Categories: gripes, food, fun, humorous, satire,
Form: Verse



My Gripes With Life
Why would a Lord's servant miserably die, And his wife and children are left embroiled in lack? Why would a toiler a beautiful mansion buy, But a gun bearing loafer ambushes his head? As I continue my gripes with life Another question comes up: Why should the industrious laborer seek heaven's favor But all this he does in vain? Why and why I...

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Categories: gripes, life
Form: Rhyme

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