Kvetching
...If all your basic needs are met,
Your bills are paid, no cause to fret,
Whatever food you want, you’ll get –
It’s then you can be kvetching.
For if you have no place to sleep
And hunger makes...
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Categories:
kvetching, life,
Form: Rhyme
Many British thermal units later
...Many British thermal units* later
Vice linkedin to carnal flesh this writer,
(a married heterosexual doofus, –
whose alter egos
named and highlighted courtesy
Gallant and Goofus) attones
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Categories:
kvetching, 12th grade, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
If Life Did Not Have Glitches
...If life did not have glitches,
Then of what would we complain?
There’d be endless founts of riches
And no one would be in pain.
All our nervous tics and twitches,
Since they all would be in va...
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Categories:
kvetching, life,
Form: Rhyme
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
ev...
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Categories:
kvetching, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Highlights From Highland Manor
...Highlights from Highland Manor
Courtesy Goofus and Gallant
who began their broadly-drawn
moral plays in the 1950s,
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlight...
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Categories:
kvetching, adventure, age, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Hours
...Some hours race by at breakneck speed,
So fast they’re almost blurry,
As if, like fire trucks on call,
They’re in the biggest hurry.
While other hours move like snails
Or just like taffy, stre...
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Categories:
kvetching, time,
Form: Rhyme
Zen Thoughtts
...QUOTE FROM ALAN WATTS~~~ZEN MASTER.
“LIFE IS THE WAY IT IS; AND LIFE IS THE WAY, IT ISN’T.”
Are we not wanting things to be otherwise?
As we dialogue in poetic disguise?
It’s impossibl...
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Categories:
kvetching, emotions, encouraging, peace, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Second Outing
...
When Jesus burst on the fish scene,
Peter saw his net skills were quite keen.
"I don’t mean to be kvetching,
but as long as you’re catching,
can you make them both headless and clean?"
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Categories:
kvetching, fishing, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Relaxing In Central Park
...Our park is a place of unnatural wonders
A shirtless man wearing low-riding jeans
Two women buxom and bold, stalking,
While an older gentleman homeless, I suspect
Stakes a claim on a rickety old ...
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Categories:
kvetching, people, places, writing,
Form: Free verse
Aches and Pains
...Everyone has aches and pains
When getting older; who complains
Depends, at times, on who refrains
From doing all the kvetching.*
For any sympathy one gains
May dwindle if attention wanes
With...
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Categories:
kvetching, health,
Form: Rhyme
Folie a Deux
...Folie à deux
("shared madness," or "madness for two").
I suffer in silence, though not alone
kvetching old curmudgeon (me)
(once upon a time, a promising
long haired pencil necked geek)
buzzf...
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Categories:
kvetching, 12th grade, celebration, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Alas Ample Alliteration Available
...Alas ample alliteration available?!
True (terrific) title: Trump's truckling tutored troopers...;
wily word wizard worried,
where world wide web wickedly wends.
Triumphantly tenaciously (try ...
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Categories:
kvetching, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Monopoly Poetry Contest
...There once was a poet named Neumann
whose bile went as white as albumen.
He emailed a missive,
his ire derisive,
attempting to yoke fellow humans.
His target would not come to heel,
so then...
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Categories:
kvetching, anger,
Form: Limerick
Travel and Tsuris and Grandkids, Oh My
...Getting together with girlfriends entails,
Aside from the obvious – eating!
Discussions of life and the various ways
We fill time up that seems to be fleeting.
Of course, we compare all our upc...
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Categories:
kvetching, age, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Many British Thermal Units Needed
...Many British Thermal Units needed...
To heat these lovely bag of bones
more so than required to generate clones
aging musculoskeletal physique groans
kvetching synonymous nsync with exactly
in...
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Categories:
kvetching, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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