Short Belabor Poems

By Trump Were Reassured

Of course by Trump we were reassured
None of his diseases could be cured
And all of the points he does belabor
Makes you think that he is our savior
Pain from tiny bladder has endured.

Jim Horn...

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Excoriate means: abuse, assail, attack, bash, 
belabor, blast, castigate, jump (on), lambaste 
(or lambast), potshot, savage, scathe, slam, 
trash, vituperate

Deplorables and Excoriables

Are many people who are excoriables,
We did discover are really deplorables;
Now exist,
And persist;
Find to be foes that are formidable.

Jim Horn...

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Please, please tell me if I am too much
Sometimes my personality overpowers
If I belabor a point, or scream, or such,
Please, please tell me if I am too much.
If I am losing it, or if I am out of touch,
I need to come down from ivory towers
Please, please tell me if I am too much,
Sometimes my personality overpowers.

Written October 6, 2022...

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I stand at temptations door...
As anger spurs a grievance withheld.
Surreptitiously you praise the incongruent
While flinging to the wayside the valuable.

Eyes closed to the importance of veracity,
You belabor simplicity with objectivity denounced
As you are drawn only to the iconoclastic.
I long to visualize cronyism obliterated.


The Contest sponsor Jerry T. Curtis
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