Long Grouchy Poems
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Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his salmagundi salad days,
when oral blight smote
left...
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Categories:
grouchy, 2nd grade, absence, age, body, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
The Peasants Truck
Everybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot stand the scorching heat that is swelling up from the...
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Categories:
grouchy, angel, blessing, business, character, confidence, earth, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
Faces In the Train
I have been used to living alone for so long
I am determined and easy going but headstrong
This morning was rather strange because I was on the train
I woke up with people gallivanting around me in...
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Categories:
grouchy, anxiety, city, conflict, deep, destiny, judgement, longing,
Form:
Narrative
A Pool of Blood
Blood spilling in the east running all the way to the west
Forming rivers of doubt in the north and South
An army of men converge along the river bank
With long guns strapped to their sides
And big...
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Categories:
grouchy, change, city, conflict, courage, extended metaphor, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
Watermark
The water mark is still evident on the wall
You can still see where the rain had fall
The stain must have been there for many years
And every time it reappears
Sending chills into my ears
It embraces...
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Categories:
grouchy, betrayal, community, conflict, corruption, courage, farewell, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Dragon An Army of One
Dragon got to thinking… And that’s always a frightening thing!
One of my son’s went into the Army, so he would do the same,
He’d been told, Soldiers are our Heroes, and he wanted to be one.
So...
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Categories:
grouchy, character, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness, happy, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
The Duke of Mar-A-Lago
(Sung to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s "The Duke of Plaza Toro," from The Gondoliers)
When all the land did take a stand
When bugs we all were fighting
He led the nation from behind
(He found...
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Categories:
grouchy, america, analogy, corruption, humor, leadership, music, parody,
Form:
Lyric
A Certain Age
You’ve reached a certain age when life has set you free
You can cock a hoop at protocol; do things that aren't PC
You can swim in just your underpants; be a gentleman or lout
Speak your mind...
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Categories:
grouchy, age,
Form:
Rhyme
The Saving of Joel Claughtrey, Part I
At the remote Carmacks trading post,
during eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
a teenage child, a scared-looking half-breed,
timidly entered through the front door.
Joel Claughtrey barely noticed the young man,
and was far more concerned with whiskey,
he took a long...
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Categories:
grouchy, adventure, family, father son, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Break of Dawn
I woke up at the break of dawn,
with the feeling that all hope is gone,
I was not sure where to begin,
but I was determined to win.
No dazzling stars,
no visible moonlight,
no chirping birds,
to tease...
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Categories:
grouchy, desire, feelings, inspiration, nature,
Form:
Light Verse
Justin Thyme
Staring in the mirror when I'm down with these scissors I found.
With my wrists out and prescription lids littered around.
I've scribbled out a bitter letter in wicked accounts and written down twisted sentences...
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Categories:
grouchy, anger, best friend, brother, confusion, deep, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To Coffee
ODE TO COFFEE
Published Hill Rag, Eskimo Pie, Coffee with Underwood
Mistress of sacred love
Sacred lady of desire
You start my day
Setting my heart on fire
With your dark delicious brew
And throughout the day
Whenever the mean old blues...
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Categories:
grouchy, allegory, funny, good morning,
Form:
Free verse
Incident On I-59
Headed home from a business trip
Tired, spaced out, grouchy and impatient
Pushing the limit to beat rush hour traffic
Fast closing on an old, beat up van
Suddenly blue smoke and debris flying
The back tire must have bounced...
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Categories:
grouchy, life,
Form:
Narrative
Incident On I-59
Headed home from a business trip
Tired, spaced out, grouchy and impatient
Pushing the limit to beat rush hour traffic
Fast closing on an old jalopy van
Suddenly blue smoke and debris flying
The back tire must have bounced twenty...
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Categories:
grouchy, car, travel,
Form:
Narrative
States of Transition
Who were you today,
at your best moments?
Grouchy hermit
already missing quality dream times
and rhythms
when chimes greet pre-light's crust frosty dawn,
to get Yang, then Yin, up and out of our sangha,
ready to enter their own daytime...
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Categories:
grouchy, children, family, health, humor, life, love,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Incident On I-59 Part Ii
Ah be careful, so careful my friends
be careful before you go getting involved
Isn’t it strange how we sometimes get swept up
swept and sucked into a life event by sheer chance?
After attending to the baby, I...
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Categories:
grouchy, life,
Form:
Narrative
Nemesis
"When God given gift is mistaken as self earned power, people become arrogant and arrogance leads to fall" By Poet.
The crow we see, was once a beautiful bird
Sweet as a lark and...
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Categories:
grouchy, bird, dark, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Monday Monokus - Oct 2020
These were my first five "Monday Monokus":
"Three Monokus walk into a bar" posted 28 Sept 2020
don't challenge Death to a pillow fight or you will face...
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Categories:
grouchy, death, humorous,
Form:
Monoku
Daylight Shouts On Market Street
Daylight swerves around the road
Shouting from corner to corner
Morning comes alive
The traffic starts rolling
And people start flowing
I walk briskly up the road
And walk along Market Street
The layover vendors are just waking up
And some of...
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Categories:
grouchy, anger, appreciation, character, conflict, courage, emotions, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Not Fake News This Just In
FROM BIKINI BOTTOM TIMES...
...Spongebob Squarepants...what...atoll...?
plunged into where,...no way...toilet bowl...
supposedly, when the ghostly hand ex-toll
ling praise from his late creator, and master
meow mind of popular Stephen Hillenburg
cast said main character in clean new role,
an unexpected greasy,...
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Categories:
grouchy, absence, anger, angst, character, grave, horror, paradise,
Form:
Free verse
Blindsided
There is a part of me that you cannot see, you have to rewind the clock to the sixty degree angle, and keep your eyes on the circles in front of you and walk briskly...
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Categories:
grouchy, america, best friend, business, cinderella, courage, england,
Form:
Narrative
The Christmas Pies
The Christmas Pies
His manner was crusty and grouchy, hunched over, he looked very slouchy
Instead of good cheer he was happy when someone would cry
He hated each time it was snowing and some chubby elf ho...
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Categories:
grouchy, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Kiss the Rain
Like any family, mine’s the same, they leave Mama with the dirty Chores.
You’d think with Trolls, and Dragons, and such… There’d be magic galore!
But I concede defeat at Pooper Scooping Time, my sons taught everyone...
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Categories:
grouchy, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous, imagination, magic, old,
Form:
Light Verse
Joined the Right Pirate Ship
Heathens, scamps and thieves were lying in wait around the cove
Could not see them in gray dusk, but Captain Tawny Right felt them
Being an empath, as well as an Irish pirate queen, she was clairaudient.
She...
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Categories:
grouchy, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose Poetry
Thank God For the Sun
The sun has been looking for me all day,
But I've chosen to hide under mismatched pajamas and layers of irritation.
I don't know what I'm angry about, I just am.
I wake up at 7:24, glare at...
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Categories:
grouchy, cheer up, depression, feelings,
Form:
Free verse