Self Respecting Poems - Poems about Self Respecting

Do You Really Think We're Made for Each Other?

...My love for you is like a crashing plane:
exhilarating pace, without control:
you’re equatorial around the pole.
Why meet my sunshine with torrential rain?
My heart is Dealey Plaza, you’re on Mai...

Who's Your Daddy

...
When under the gun how can one
not be outdone by nepotism
or overcome by favouritism
altho' the norm they're no more
than a form of terrorism
a nebulous opponent none can fight
on the...

The Marvelous Platypus

...The platypus excels at evolution
And displays a super cool solution
For making his way amidst the muck, 
He don't run aground.  He don't get stuck.
Of this, the platypus would never d...

The Red Stove

...mother needed a new stove
everyone had white stoves in the sixties
it was the approved color

appliance store up town received a sample stove
it was painted a blazing bright red
not what any se...

Enabled Empathy

...It's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult

I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patria...

Manipulation

...Draw the curtains
Dim the light
Get settled down
For this long winter night
Almost dozing In my chair
A sleeping cat on my knee
Feeling warm and content
A pleasant place to be.
A fire in the ...

Count Your Blessings

...Changing outlook from negative to positive
Our happiness starts with positivity;
Undermining our joy by withholding grudge
Never good things can be achieved with sadnes...

Trail Track

...muddy, heavy roads,
     to  self-respecting walker
       no selected route...

Astronomy and Astrology Went For a Walk

...Sweet Astrology and Self-Assured Astronomy went for a little walk.
Astronomy said “Glad we can have this little self-respecting talk.”
Astrology sighed.
Astronomy tried.
To self-promote his scien...

Dignified Damsels

...It would seem much of the time that while so many so called self respecting, educated, so called independently minded women don't truly respect much or anything , often especially men, the so called ...

Why Did It Become Like This

...How did it come to this?
Sitting on a terrace counting how many
Ships are anchored in the bay.
I know most of the ships especially
The coastal runners, the big trawler has left an ugly ship
With...

Phone Talk

...The phone conversation
Late in the evening, my daughter brought me an apparat 
that made it possible to talk to the dead.
The first on the line was an electrician complaining
I hadn’t paid him; s...

Blackbird Moulting

...I thought my little mate the blackbird
was being bullied by his flock
maybe pressured to renounce our friendship
his little yellow nose looked painfully pecked
his tail short and dishevelled as h...

Open Marriage

...Oops, silly me! I do apologize for believing 
most of my adult life that marriage is... 
a sacred union of two souls. That it's between...
two people. Just two!

Is there a bigger insult to the ...

Sour Trumpet Flat Trumpet

...
Sour trumpet, flat trumpet; disharmony you create…
That’s simply not music; that hot air, you blow;
clearly your valves are blocked. 

Where did you learn those old sour notes?
thos...

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