Short Backlash Poems

Listen to poem:

when on one's mettle
beware the backlash spring, from
backbiter take downs...

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blanket of white stretched
backlash of society
laziness


Written for

Sponsor Charles Henderson 
Contest Name haiku vs. senryu...

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Greed caused the two-thousand eight (2008) crash
Then the banksters grabbed all our cash
Now brash Donald Trump 
With backlash from the dump
Can rant for the pile of white trash...

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The backlash against CV-19 restrictions erupted
The plan to wear masks and social distance disrupted

   Now that the numbers are spiking upward again
   Will we have 'whiplash' with which to contend?...

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Listen to poem:

why did he lay dead
no voice to say, dead in head,
faked an AI voice instead


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Anthony Bourdain documentary 'RoadRunner' sparks backlash for using AI to fake voice..... " effectively bring his voice back to life".
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Prime Minister bands hangi,

racist thing to do,

the backlash is not funny,

silly little Jew.


(Hangi - a traditional Maori meal cooked in the ground, a practice Maori have used for more than 170 years)

9th place...

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I'm on point of psychosis. 
I'm haunted by silken dusk.
howls echo to wry Croesus.
reflects my deep-seated whimsy brusque.

5TH PLACE CONTEST WINNER

Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke
LIND30 Rhyme Poetry Contest...

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Astral Backlash, Cosmic Dimension, Environmental Fermentation Gradual, History, incidental Jubilation, Kinetic Labryinth, Military Negation, Optomistic Pessimism, Quaint Radical Skeptimism, Toxic Utopia, Vague Willfullness, Xenomobic Yougsters, Zero...

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One quick lethal blow
One tormenting flash
A taste of the pain
Should we ever part
Harsh poison chalice
Steer far from my lips



AP: 2nd place 2020

Submitted on December 18, 2017 for A DECEMBER STANDARD CONTEST sponsored by BRIAN STRAND...

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The sea in turmoil lets the billows crash,
As the moon watches playful high tides,
Plunge to bathe the lone barren rocky beach;
Kindle a stormy froth and fuming backlash.
 
Never trust the sea with dark horizons;
For its waves change at their discretion:...

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The impression that you give off
is that of regression
unable to
withstand the need
the backlash
the challenge that only
i can provide.

Oh. Now i'm disillusioned?

Pretty words and promises
are not enough to 
sustain a soul,
especially the raw one
inside....

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At first, he'd meant to make a difference.
But, he lost his ideals making deals-
the back-room,
you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours, 
backstabbing variety...
Then there was the payback, backlash and push-back.
Now no one recognizes him, back home.






5/23/2019
Dial It Back Poetry Contest
Maureen McGreavy, Sponsor...

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Tissue,pigmented,black,brown or white,
Everyone equal in the creator's sight;
Whatever shaded membrane skin,
Just a covering,layered thin.
Purely an accident of birth,
Never a value of our worth;
Customs and culture the true divide,
Ignorance its willing guide.
Repercussion and backlash,we reap
When our thinking,stays skin deep....

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Excuses Excuses
It's my way of  avoiding undesirable work
Allowing me to keep my sanity for better uses

Excuses Excuses
People can tell when I use them
I don't care, doesn't stop me
Everyone is guilty of using them
Much easier than hearing the backlash,
Of that one time I decided to be honest
And say “I don't want to do this, I'm sorry!”...

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Cinco de Mayo
At Mar-a-Lago
Is serving up Mexican lies

Trump welcomes us all
To pay for his Wall
In a scam each Republican buys

You know Wells Fargo
And Mar-a-Lago
Are models of integrity

Well,  that big Caravan
Is Cartel to a man
There is no true refugee! 

So forget the backlash
Just send Trump your cash
For a Wall that defines liberty!...

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They say nothing lasts forever,
sadly we’re no longer together
You walked out last July
and could never explain why; 
then treated me as trash
I suffer from the backlash
Our son misses his dad
his sobbing makes me sad 
Please answer your cell phone
I am feeling so alone 

10 lines 5 words Contest
Sponsored by Laura Loo

01/16/18...

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I feel this urge
It’s a backlash
A surly surge
And its so absurd
That people try
To sell their souls
When it’s the one thing
That cant be bought 
Or sold or transferred
You can change oneself
And live like your soul
Doesn’t matter
But really who would want
Your life after you took
All the sin 
Yeah you don’t know
Perhaps you’re ready
To begin again
#soulfoundry...

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too much backlash
not enough research
i am the cause of my broken heart

too much tv
not enough affection and attention
i am the cause of my lonely soul

too many wishes for being by myself
not enough prayers for her love and care
i am the cause of my icy cold teardrops

too much time gone by
not enough attempts left after the (too) late bell rings
i am the number one enemy of myself...

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I hang onto your genuine words
That fill me with calm content
I am safe with the singing birds
With your daily caring, intent

To splash my life with special things
Surprises, care and joy
Without backlash that stings
Without confusion, reigned with a ploy

You have found your way to me
Gratitude fills my every day
Enhancing all that I can be
Together we find our way

Heidi Sands

10/7/17...

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Throughout America, oh, dear,
Which let their Mr. Trump lead them
To believe it was all ok.
Now, America must say what
We all will experience
As Covid-19 does its thing
And backlashes us all insane.
It will be wild, us fighting it,
Without a vaccine to help us
Listen no more to anyone
Who’d lead us like sheep to slaughter.

W.C.Hull © 2020-29-6-H1461-2571-I52-
K52-39-L59-11
W.C.Hull © 2020-29-6-WCH-2-4...

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Sitting in the backseat ~ yackety
she drives like
    crackers ~ wackedy
speeding to the movies?
we can’t be late?
Driver ahead asleep at the
    light
panic stop she makes ~ 5 seatbelts lock
But the 
backlash! ........... flying wig
plops smack in my lap . . . .
Screaming fits of laughter all around.
Late to the movies after all,
    not nearly as good.




Dedicated to my friend, Kate.
Breast cancer survivor....

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The battlelines were drawn.
While drinking the sun
I set myself ablaze

A hooded dilemma
of his kindness
starts boiling in chaotic dissonance.

A backlash stops a self-search.
Who am I and why do I belong
in the spinning of descent.

There were flames in every home
and biting dust of the moon.
Where the man will go.

The birth’s print and death’s answer
had the bidding game.
I was standing in the middle.




Satish Verma...

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I finally see the day
Where I will draw the line
Where I will have had enough
And stand up
Brand my sword
I’ll stare you down
And growl
Come no closer
I see the day is near
And feel the strength
Run through my veins
I feel the rage bubbling
I’m on the edge
And feel exhilarated
Freedom is nigh
And the backlash
Of repression is about
To be unleashed                         



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on April 27, 2019...

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*Please no bashing of the president, or others etc. (or I will just delete my poem)
 *This is just a silly vent in general with a little sarcastic humor too.  
  Thank you!

Here we go again, hop on the political rollercoaster ride!
Back and forth backlash, as if the carts are about to fall off the tracks!
With all our stomachs rolling and things flying through the air,
No-one seems to care, we are no longer ‘united’ anywhere!

Heidi Sands

9/25/19...

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Tissue,pigmented black,brown or white,
All equal in the creator's sight;
However shaded,each membrane kin,
Merely a cover,layered thin.

Purely an accident of birth,
Never a value of our worth;
Cutoms,culture our true divide,
Ignorance its willing guide.

Tastes,mores,attitudes
Provoking reponses,crude and rude;
Manners,conventions,traditional ties,
The crux upon which all difference lies.

Repercussion and backlash,we reap
If our thinking stays skin deep....

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