Grunts Poems

Premium MemberFool's Errand

...I wonder after his black spectacles,
if I could recognize his phantom's scare
by his bandy left foot, something he'd wear:
constrictor turtlenecks, cowboy buckles
his trials decided by flayed knu...
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Categories: grunts, confusion, dark, heart, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberUp Close with Strangers

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plane, bus 'n train
elevators 'n escalators
revelers 'n sale-day crowds
is where we meet
STRANGERS!
looking away,
with no eye-to-eye contact
no nod, wink, grunt of 'Hi's',
never ever recogn...
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Categories: grunts, fear, relationship, together, travel,
Form: Free verse


Sizzle

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My hair ripping as her fingernails entwine
pulling my head back
She slaps me harder than she should
Her smile slightly offset
My cheek reddening from the welt of her hand
Shifting herself fo...
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Categories: grunts, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMockingBird

...MockingBird

Always Teasing

"Effing - Effing - Effing - What?"

A Gray And White Kite 
Needing A Little Mate

She's Music & I'm Just Grunts

She's Always Flirting...

(MayBe Male?)

W...
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Categories: grunts, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Folk Of Habitat Bay

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There is a lovely town l know of called Habitat Bay
Where the residents are of the animal kind
Living together in harmony
A community supportive and aligned

Duck is the towns only doctor
A b...
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Categories: grunts, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberYoung Man In Battle

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A threadbare sigh relentlessly lisps
    while he begs with twilight 
    for inner calm;
    Dear life...he is just a  young man, 
     wobbly  feet wanting to run away
     from unknown gr...
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Categories: grunts, angst, poverty, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberAnthropology 101

...Once, sat and thought, a hairy brute,
wearing not, a well-tailored suit.
In grunts and growls, he said, "I suppose,
if thumb and fingers should oppose, 
it would not be so very dumb", 
and paten...
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Categories: grunts, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBunch of limericks and other funny tricks II

...I hate it when a girl rolls her eyes,
because that means she's on to my lies.
And then it's harder to get her
to let me under her sweater,
and then on to the ultimate prize.
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Categories: grunts, funny, giggle, howl, humor,
Form: Limerick

My cat can’t be happy

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Ok God hear it is
I spent eons perfecting an animal that cares about nothing I call it a……Cat
Gabriel beams as he places it gently in Gods lap

Could you please remove it
It is making a weir...
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Categories: grunts, poems,
Form: Free verse

Augury

...Augury; 
a sign of what will happen in the future; an omen:

Complacent the night lays above,
Unsure what the darkness lies of
Corners, cracks, and fields
Lies only the beasts that yield
Befor...
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Categories: grunts, allusion, future,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGobbledygook

...Gurgling grunts 
Help the pretty flowers grow 
Babbling bluntly my mystical muse 
Is easily confused 
Pretty smells I do inhale 
Dream faeries up my nose 
To my brain attach a hose 
To drain m...
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Categories: grunts, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

cross thuh creek

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              lean'nin 'gainst an
                 age'd wooden
                  ranch fence
                 thuh dream'r

                      Tie'd
             her flannel'z hem
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Categories: grunts, beautiful, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberStop Thinking!

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The 2nd Trump Presidency Begins

To express my own Whitmanesque
"barbaric yawp", constrained by
internal (and external) barriers,
mentally constipated, I merely mutter,
feel pressures steadil...
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Categories: grunts, age, angst, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Devil's pet

...When you placed your hands on the littles ones thigh,
When they saw your shadow in stead of theirs,
When they glanced up at you, adoration and want radiating from their eyes,

There goes your rot...
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Categories: grunts, abuse, child abuse, evil,
Form: Free verse

Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed

...Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed

made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...

to stave off experiencing get...
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Categories: grunts, analogy, animal, august, autumn,
Form: Free verse

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