Pettiness Poems

Sincerely You

...Your color-bled cloth
Just rips at my stitches
I’m monotone; a moth
Calling out to you
With my heavy, little wishes
Fed a steady diet of tweed coat pockets
Bleached in forever stains
And tie d...
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Categories: pettiness, conflict, dark, pain, society,
Form: Rhyme

The Lie of Forgiveness

...Betrayal is strange—
once you’ve done it,
you kneel for forgiveness
as if asking someone
to betray themselves
for your sake.

You want their mercy,
but mercy means bending
a rule they never ...
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Categories: pettiness, betrayal, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberThe intellect will not solve our problems, nor will it feed the soul

...The intellect will not solve our problems, nor will it feed the soul with the essence of eternal life;
we often lose ourselves in the whirlwind of an extraordinary world that we do not truly see.
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Categories: pettiness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

144 - Shedeur Sanders

...Let’s talk about it.
The projected disrespected was selected! Yes selected, not by man, but by God.
144, yes, that’s the number it took for Shedeur Sanders to be drafted.

Let’s talk about these ...
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Categories: pettiness, america, betrayal, confidence, evil,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThey're still doing the nasty

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i wake up in the morning
on comes the news
same foolishness and bickering
same pettiness and insanity
same old sh*t different day
shake my head 'cause here we go again !



AP: Honorable M...
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Categories: pettiness, morning,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberI Have Decided

...Today will be good
No pettiness allowed in
Just a smile and hope


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Categories: pettiness, day, happy,
Form: Haiku

Dead Idea

...It is a relief to hear you speak...
Knowing my feelings got ahead of me,
Seeing now the differences in our mentality,
Breaking free to see reality,
I ask myself was it a mistake to care so intens...
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Categories: pettiness, betrayal, blessing, butterfly,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberDescent And Ascent

...My hilly paths are full of pits, and my trails turn and twist.
My life and destiny have contracted clandestine tryst.
As there are dams blocking rivers that flow flawlessly
Unknown hurdles put pau...
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Categories: pettiness, god, life, world,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLOVE YOURSELF FIRST

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The night moves so slowly in an undulating slither
When you’re waiting anxiously alone in the dark,
Wondering where he is tonight, as if it really matters.
Your sacred beliefs about love will ...
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Categories: pettiness, betrayal, depression, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSacrifice

...Sacrifice

Today I sacrifice my martyrdom. 
Today I cleanse my soul, 
Release the past and reach for the new. 
I'll look for the life I'm entitled to.

 I rise above my delusions. 
Pettiness ...
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Categories: pettiness, courage, depression, fear, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberROCOCOISTA gardi hogarth

...ROCOCOISTA 
scrolled
  rocaille
    counter curves
asymmetry
  arranged
in pettiness
& variety
modish elegance
so
deeply moving...
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Categories: pettiness, art,
Form: Didactic

Yule Fence

...Allow me to go back and rewind our time as friends
When I promised myself I'd never let you or anyone in

Especially the stereotypical people in your community
Where I believed in your heart I'd ...
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Categories: pettiness, boyfriend,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPray Without Ceasing

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Pray Without Ceasing
Miracle Man
December 12, 2023 

The world has become filled, 
with hatred and division.
Many times we let pettiness,
impair our good vision.

Compromise is a w...
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Categories: pettiness, change, hate, how i
Form: Quatrain

Phantom Operator

...Are we testing open waters?
I never should have stationed there

We were not prepared 
Through the shame and sacrifice,
I was getting there 

All we know is shelter,
Survival, 
Yet we were u...
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Categories: pettiness, betrayal, death, family, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGraceful

...“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as y...
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Categories: pettiness, analogy, community, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

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