Irritants Poems

Premium MemberThought of the day

...Get to work weary hermit, do not shirk ~
Face irritants that continue to irk...
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Categories: irritants, courage, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThe Shadows Following Apparitions

...like shadows they follow us
they tell their stories 
on pages 
that may or may not 
be seen, or read,
we a'muse them -

"we", of course, are truly inconsequential
in the greater scheme of thi...
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Categories: irritants, poets, truth,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThe High Road

...events precipitate
deemed as irritants
by ignorant ego
but true self within
is joyous and aglow

attention oscillates
but soul has chosen
it becomes the flame
of bliss in renewal
heart’s cl...
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Categories: irritants, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTo Weep the Tears That Never Learn

...As drizzles or rain drops you involuntarily flow,
Are you, like waters in the mighty reservoirs, embanked?
Like waves of seas, why from my eyes you arise, I don't know,
Why, in a pure diamond-drip...
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Categories: irritants, cry, life,
Form: Rhyme

Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag

...Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.

I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came acro...
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Categories: irritants, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme


Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag

...at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School

As a Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got the brilliant idea 
for his sole son to be dressed 
with one of a kind getup....
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Categories: irritants, 5th grade, adventure, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Where Turbulence Meets Patience

...WHERE TURBULENCE MEETS PATIENCE

Sometimes life reaches at that juncture
Where annoying things start to pour over
But you want to be at your comfy space
Feels that nobody should touch that phase...
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Categories: irritants, anger, celebration, conflict, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn Wearing a Mask Outdoors

...freshly-mown grass smell
irritates sensitive nose 
violent sneezing

reddened itchy eyes
sign of allergies, indeed,
nasal congestion

wearing mask outdoors
reduce irritants from ...
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Categories: irritants, environment, health, pollution, sick,
Form: Haiku

Trumpets

...There you are
lying flat in that expensive box
with bronze handles
and white padding,
while just across the hill
lie your mother and father
sinking into sod
forgotten under their flat piece of...
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Categories: irritants, anger,
Form: Free verse

Face Masks, Face Veils: Same Thing

...https://youtu.be/c1gNm21YzfI


When last I visited India almost a decade ago
I recall riding on my brother's scooter 
as he drove me around town,
And I saw fully veiled Muslim women
half their...
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Categories: irritants, health, truth, , western,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberA Snake In the Grass

...A snake in the grass is a sneaky little buggar
Deceiving us guys daily, those nasty little mothers
I'm totally innocent
Trust me you irritants
These yahoos will be around and active forev...
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Categories: irritants, fear,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberBeing Type A

...So many things that we want to get perfect.
But it does not happen. 
Some deal with this all right.
The professional chameleons do.
The Type A’s are not as lucky.
Wanting to control things.
Los...
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Categories: irritants, jobs, self,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White Trash

...Chief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”

As Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got brilliant idea 
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua 
putrid...
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Categories: irritants, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Morning Enchantment

...The morning’s enchantment



The sun is bright like shiny copper
The air smells of the ocean like lobster
Irritants are low with visions considered
Level are the tones of gray
Focused seclude...
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Categories: irritants, allusion, angel, appreciation, autumn,
Form: ABC

Common Cold

...Achooo!
It begins, almost always, with a sneeze, 
Which, in some cultures, 
Invites blessings, 
But, in some others, a curse,
As it’s held to be ominous!
Blessing or curse, soon the frequency
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Categories: irritants, funny, irony, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse

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