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Short Backhanded Poems

Short Backhanded Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Backhanded by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Backhanded by length and keyword.


Premium Member The Moody Hues
backhanded mood ring
   leaves a mark
   on the calendar 



MagiCicada13...

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Categories: backhanded, relationship,
Form: Senryu



Blindsided By
through out the years
seemed to be 
constantly blindsided by 
backhanded compliments
made that were fuelled by 
pent up resentments...

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Categories: backhanded, conflict,
Form: Lyric
Backhanded
“All you can be is all you can be,”
damning with faint praise

A lover, not a girl to wed
—left hand falsely raised

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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Categories: backhanded, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A B C Dunk
Amazeballs
Backhanded
Calibration


AP: 2nd place 2020

Submitted on February 19, 2019 for contest A THREE WORD POEM sponsored by BOBBY MAY  -  RANKED 2ND...

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Categories: backhanded, fun, silly, uplifting, word play,
Form: ABC
Backhanded Compliments
backhanded compliments 
became the standard practice 
within our maladaptive version of normalcy 
which fell dependent upon 
a series of inconsistent 
swings in mood experienced   
within a single conversation 
which over time became the way 
of our world...

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Categories: backhanded, corruption,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Backhanded Apology
Sorry if I upset you, I really didn’t mean it Actually, I meant it Until I saw it upset you, Now I’m sorry you are Upset by my words But I got them said, Which I intended to do.
Written September 12, 2022 POEM OF THE DAY Poetry Soup September 14, 2022...

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Categories: backhanded, feelings, humorous, irony, spoken word,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Congratulations
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Out of all the apologies for poems written in the last several days, the algorithm has selected yours for POTD. As always, we are working to improve the algorithm. Oh, and congratulations!

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H/T to Backhanded Apology by Milton Hankins, with a grin :-)...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backhanded, silly,
Form: Prose
Premium Member White Lie Birds
Backhanded compliments are meant to disturb
Yet on surface pretend to be a polite white bird

Giving fake hazel humor or slighted cranberry concern
When the person pretending to teach needs to learn

Learn the lessons of southern hospitality amber and
If you’re guessing know you can catch these hands
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Categories: backhanded, anti bullying, bullying, computer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Name's Illness, Mental Illness
The faceless name of stigma
with more eyes than not
go side steps and looks
there, media begot

Whose singing and slur
with stick and with stone
the backhanded harm
confiding to home

With strength that’s locked up
minds reeling to shout
the jangling of keys
to let that strength out

It’s a tentative stride
walking into the frame
those keys are our tools
to win back our name



...

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Categories: backhanded, anxiety, depression, life, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Quatrain
Cry

Cry is all that I can do
Tears that must be hid from you
Broomsticks slashed across my back
Violence flowing right on track
A pig you say a stupid fool
Cry in my pillow
Cry in my drool
Swollen orbs puffed with pain
Tears to conceal bawl in the rain
You wish that I was never born
Birthed from you and heaven torn
Never seem to do what’s right
Backhanded lessons
Stinging with spite
Away from you
Someday I’ll be led
For now all I do
Is cry in my bed
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Categories: backhanded, abuse,
Form: Free verse

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