Grouses Poems - Poems about Grouses

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 ch...

Stars became the sun

...Just fresh out of one of our drinking bars,
I looked up to the sky and saw some stars,
Drunkenness whispered to me t'was midday,
Why will stars be on the sky that's that grey?

So I asked my fri...

another abcedarian for fun

...all automatic alligators arrive arrogantly
barely behave beautifully but brazenly
carousing with creepy cruddy crocodiles
desperately denying despicable wiles
effectively expediting expediency
f...

The Puppeteer

...A carpenter nails boards together
    The architect envisions the house
  The laborer sweeps up the progress
    A poet positions
    each stanza in the framework 
    of the universe... 

  T...

Ode To Monogamy

...ODE TO MONOGAMY

As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with twenty wives.
Old and wizened, hair snow white;
Frail and bent, a sorry sight.
With scalding tongues, his twenty sp...

Two Women Same Ailment

...Shirley is in constant pain, but she does not take it out on anyone.
Only her closest friends know – the two closest friends.
She does not burden others with her ailment.
She is pleasant throughou...

Entertainment Committee of One

...She gripes, grumbles and grouses.
We smile, smirk and sneak glances at each other.
Thrilled she comes to every family reunion.
Loudly and proudly grimacing and griping.
My uncles love to rile her...

Drowsy In the Afternoon

...yawns are contagious
especially afternoon
in a lecture hall
boring professor grouses
needs to freshen up his notes

written August 13, 2021...

She Is On Her Own

...I have not one friend she grouses to me.
I have known her for years, so how could this be?
I’m not a friend? I ask her worried a bit.
Not in the least, she says, clearly meaning it. 
I have no id...

On the Still Waters a Lake

...Sat on a boat tied to the bank
wave ripples nudge the sides
a swing motion in the stillness
in the absence of ebb and tide

Autumnal leaves fall on the waters
miniature boats float for a while
...

The Sunless and Dim Morning

...I worry about the long silence,
why life does not reawaken
and instill in us the awaited hope?
Can distraught hearts beat again...
forgetting all the pain for an hour?

The sunless and dim morn...

Another Apricot Sunrise

...It was just one of those splendid days, which held no excitement;
Moreover it required none, for in its stillness, I was content.

Lying on the forest green grass, luxurious blue skies in my eyes,...

Lindenwood Was Battered By Isaias

...Yesterday tropical storm Isaias battered Lindenwood,
I saw people walk past those trees bent by a vicious wind;  
they lost their umbrellas and their baseball caps:
they were warned to stay inside...

The Jungle Jamboree

...When panthers prowl and lions stalk,
the lone wolves howl and parrots talk.
The bee hives hum and wild boars snort;
the grouses drum; the deer cavort.
And as geese cackle, small hares peek.
They...

Whining, Grousing, and Garbage

...She whines because her food needs salt.
A 2-year-old-child dies of leukemia while she is glaring at the waiter.
He grouses because the neighbor’s garbage is out two hours ahead of time.
He calls 9...

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