Rebuttals Poems | Examples


My Own Demon of Destruction

When the challenge has become the quest
The pressure is great to outshine
The fear tries to crawl to the surface
Again will I fall victim to my ambition 
The stacks so high
In time I have months
But I want it all now
As it all sucks me in
I can't help but to panic 
When all sleep goes away
I lie awake in my rebuttals 
Can I become what I wish to be
Or is this mask so great
It hides all potential I have
I look at this life as an constant reminder
There is no place in this world for a quitter
I can point blame
I can ravish the truth
But the moments still remain
There's no time to waste
As this life will fade
I must remain true
And figure a way past my last self
To what this self wants to be now
Away from all that is strange
And conquer all that lie in wait
My own demon of destruction.
Categories: rebuttals, adventure, fear, stress,
Form: Free verse

Amongst Giants

Amongst giants, humbled, we become others.
Confidently content, no need for rebuttals.

Amongst giants, silence, for he is quiet by nature.
Similarities are subtle, for we have the same maker.

Amongst giants, admiration for her strength and duty. 
Our differences are distinct, as man becomes moody.
 
Amongst giants, we discover, a remedy for illness.
Purposely positioned, to show us true stillness.
Categories: rebuttals, peace,
Form: Couplet


Fossilitis Ignoratious

If your ego is capacious
Or your appetite voracious
For a plucky, pertinacious
Confidence in cherished creeds,
Then your genius, though sagacious,
Conjures arguments audacious
Never seeing they’re fallacious:
Truth be told, you’re in the weeds.

Your disease: a contumacious
Predilection for tenacious
Relics of the late Cretaceous
Buried deep within your soul.
Now the clash of clues vexatious
Shows your self-made strait hellacious;
Still your will proves efficacious
To maintain your status quo.

In the face of facts veracious
When your mood is disputatious
You remain unfazed, pugnacious,
With your slowly dying breed.
Your rebuttals wax loquacious
To escape the perspicacious
But they seem a mite mendacious
To the few who pay them heed.

Though my grousing is ungracious
And my rhyming ostentatious
I won’t stoop to be salacious
For the horror’s grim and cold:
While your heart still soars flirtatious,
Charmed by pterosaurs predacious,
Laxness leaves your brain crustaceous,
Drying, hardening in its mold.
Categories: rebuttals, funny, humor, humorous, mental
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberMeans To My End

Obstinate eyes, worn I, dart shadows wished pretend,  
Spun ‘round by carousel, too quick for lines to bend,
See only empty space no shackled dare transcend,
Beneath dishonest moon, short innocence to lend;

Well mannered hope once held from schools raw fish attend
Has turned against me now, caused youthful dreams distend;
And though none hear my cries, enlightened thoughts suspend
Then clamor angrily, “Pure lies, this sinner’s penned!”;

Rebuttals cower, lest again their words offend
Long worshiped Deity, who claimed I do impend
Her right to happiness; begged justice apprehend                                                
Love’s punished prisoner, whose hell shall never end. 

1/16/2017

Submitted for:  12x12 Monorhyme
Sponsored by:  John Hamilton
Categories: rebuttals, lost love,
Form: Monorhyme

Between the Lines

In an otherwise
uneventuful
morning, between the
roles we locked 
eyes, bantering 
without 
mincing words, allowing 
futures, names, and
rebuttals to 
stem from our hearts 
unmuffled, and 
mingle.

A fearless 
gig between the 
staves ensued, bringing
us to melt in a 
timeless
embrace of playful
reminders of our 
unmistakeable, unshakeable, and
unutterable bond.

In a twine of echoes and 
mirrors, between the 
statements you 
probed, between the
silences I 
listened, between the
changes you
questioned, between the
questions I
changed. 

Between encounters we
found 
ourselves speaking our
undecipherable
Angelic language, between the
sentences we read 
our souls so
smoothly.

Between the 
grooves I think, between the
rules you feel, between the
lines we just
ARE.
Categories: rebuttals, allegory, dance, language, love,
Form: Free verse


The Dark Clouds of Change

rain falls today as we accept 
the dark clouds of change

puddles of blood reach the eye 
of the storm once well hidden

my galoshes are like internal 
quicksand at its wits end's peak

my umbrella is temperamental for
life, and my brain is a deluge of 
confusion

hail slams against all foundations
as we accept the dark clouds of 
change

overflooded aftermath forces all
acidic rebuttals with a unprecedented
makeshift wand

oh how we wish for silver rabbits, but
instead we get black crows and wrinkle
rust vultures
Categories: rebuttals, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWell, I Declare

Why, yes, that’s a picture of me there
You cannot believe I was once fair
     Just look at your belly
     It bounces like jelly
It seems you’re now ready to compare

At least I have hair you can envy
That wig you are sporting’s not trendy
     And I still have my teeth
     You lost yours craving sweets
Behind your dentures is breath deadly
	
So you are surprised I can fight back
Rebuttals you’ll find that I don’t lack
    And speaking of “buttals”
    Your caboose just shuttles
When you bend, you reveal a huge crack

If you’ll keep your comments to yourself
You may find that I’ll behave myself
     But mocking me won’t work     
     So wipe off that wry smirk
Or I’ll hide your booze on a back shelf



*Written September 3, 2014
Categories: rebuttals, humor,
Form: Limerick

Free Cee At the Midnight Power

AT THE MIDNIGHT POWER

As a writer I seek sanctuary in every sentence, sentiment and syllable spoken
As a man I possess a soul bought, bastardized and broken
These are traits that rate reviews worthy of nothing much
With a psyche which summarily succumbed to sorrow and such

My soul has been purchased, purloined and perpetually deprived of pity
I’ve been slaving too long at a mill with the gregarious and the witty
As a writer I am compelled, compromised and have competed with complaints
As a man I am confused by and conscious of consistent and consternating constraints

Restraints such as rules, regulations and rebuttals of any kind
Because I am shackled by my maudlin and too often mildly bemused mind
Even merriment means misery for a man such as myself
A person who displays his animosity toward others upon a mantle’s shelf

As a writer my secret is that I have no secrets nor exclusionary excuses
As a man I swear to four strong aces but hold a hand with only two lame deuces
As a writer I heed no warnings that may wane at midnight’s hour
But as a man I confess a constant lack of strength or any palpable power
© 2012...PHREEPOETREE ~free cee!~
Categories: rebuttals, angst,
Form: Quatrain
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