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Grousing Poems - Poems about Grousing

Hermit Crab's Cushion

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We hermit crabs smile at our grousing
a crack in my shell needs espousing. 
   I spy a cigarette; 
  the filter, perfect fit -
could it cushion my cleft in hous...
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Categories: grousing, 11th grade, animal, house,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberHernley 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...
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Categories: grousing, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberWe Liked Tailor Very Much

...Tailor had a circuit, he arrived three times a year to sew us up
He used to have a cat, a fish, a dog, a wife and a pup
The wife got tired of the traveling and took the pets to settle down
She was...
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Categories: grousing, husband,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Membergrousing about old news

...he was a narcissist, egotistical and puffed up
I wanted him to leave, she groused, but he never would.
No one would help me.
this is her weekly lament.
I prayed he would go off with someone else....
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Categories: grousing, life,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium Memberred lines

...Sunrise was just a red line in the inky void, as Lisa and I reached the harbor decking stairs,
but at once, the brazen slash began widening, like a silent, slow motion explosion,  
thin, smoky wisp...
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Categories: grousing, appreciation, morning, sea, student,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGrousing Griping Animal Band

...The animals took turns being leader of the band.
Today it was squirrel's turn, he marched onto our land.
The fox was pouting, for he said he never got a turn.
This made the moose mad, he did a slo...
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Categories: grousing, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSanta Frog

...Santa came down with a horrible cold.
Had to interview everyone – young and old.
Elves finally chose a frog big and bold
Whose steed was a hen from Farmer Mold.

What about a sleigh? Asked many ...
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Categories: grousing, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberToday's Meeting of Republicans For Biden

...Today's virtual meeting is now called to order
    Log on quick. POTUS' giving away the country and its borders...

  I'd like to order free college tuition for my eight kids
    O.K! Just put up...
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Categories: grousing, america, giving, humor, leadership,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberNot a Chance They Are Pisces

...Neither of the old men were born under the sign Pisces
They were playing chess as hard as they dared
Neither enjoying it like a person born under Pisces would
A Pisces lets things flow naturally, ...
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Categories: grousing, birthday,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Kitty Who Bragged

...I have a fancy Christmas tree hat bragged the feline
And a sportscar red, and a tummy that is always fed.
She has never had to wait, listen or stand in line.
The rest of the class began grousing b...
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Categories: grousing, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPastel Purple

...It’s 6:15pm. Peter, Anna, Sophy and I are studying in the common room of our suite.

“We need to get serious,” Peter whispered, but there was no subject in the declaration, so I was left confused a...
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Categories: grousing, conflict, confusion, humor, identity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBuddy Greets Delivery Driver

...Because Buddy is an exceptionally large dog
Weighing ninety-two pounds, measuring five feet
Not counting his tail, even though he is only two and a baby
Some delivery people are fearful when they ...
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Categories: grousing, dog,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberOne In Every Family

...There is one in every family.
Someone determined to be mad.
Not diabolically crazy or fun-loving or whimsically mad.
Angry, hateful, grousing, pouting mad.

Ours is named Louisa, and she is a pr...
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Categories: grousing, family,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberNew Bulldog On the Block

...There was a new bulldog on the block.
His name was Sammy.
He was a rocker. His paws were clammy.

We saw him from a distance
And laughed a little bit.
He was shaking his booty and having a fit....
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Categories: grousing, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberG Is For Gritty

...Greasy grimy gritty grievances
grabbed grandma’s gleamingly glitzy glasses
Giving griping grousing grandchildren gruesome 
glimpses of Grandma’s gleaming glitzy glasses....
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Categories: grousing, word play,
Form: Alliteration

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