Short Bickering Poems

they're bickering 
in the swing, while
birds sing sweetly...

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Sunlight finds a gap
between two bickering stones—
moss builds a cathedral....

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magpies
bickering raiders
sorrowful untold secrets
line your nests of
thieves...

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Dither of blue jays
bickering at the feeder.
Doves eat well below


Donal Mahoney...

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Dither of blue jays
bickering at the feeder.
Doves eat well below




Donal Mahoney...

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while congresmmen are bickering,
Americans are appealing:
stop the gridlock, start producing!...

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Words clash, sharp and loud,
No bridge built, just walls rising,
Nation's breath held tight.

©bfa050825...

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Deadly Bug
By: Tom
3/15/2020

Corona virus,
a time to come together,
and stop bickering.
...

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beneath bickering brass, bluebirds balance beats on baritone branches


For Nette Onclaud, "Monoklitteration" contest, 30 May 2025....

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I AM NOT ON ANY-SIDE-- 
NOT THE WRONG ONE--- 
-
OR THE OTHER WRONG ONE.
ONLY MY LOVE IS LOYAL
 -
BUT I HAVE NO NEED 
TO BE RIGHT-
ONLY EFFECTIVE.....

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standard proudly flown
red white and blue unity
bickering sisters



My Union Jack, United Kingdom
For contest 'Flag Haiku' sponsored by Skat A
July16th 2015...

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A constant murmur,
with bickering voices
and occasional shriek of glee.
All when I'm trying to revise,
down in the library.



[written in 1988 - do they still have libraries in universities?]...

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Welcome to the show!
Bickering, maddening, lying, carnival of fools.
Circus of family.
Ringmasters of entertainment.
Clowns, and sideshow freaks.
Artists of balance, tamers of Lion's.
All working without a net....

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i wake up in the morning
on comes the news
same foolishness and bickering
same pettiness and insanity
same old sh*t different day
shake my head 'cause here we go again !



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 4, 2025...

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Two Mutes in the Press Room


The two mutes we hired
to wheel hot type 
are bickering again

Their fingers 
quicker than beaks of cocks 
tear the air

with perfect curses
tongues never utter
ears never hear


Donal Mahoney...

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I see two faces
Inside and out
Side by side bickering about

They fight for food
They fight for thought
They fight for everything they haven’t got

I see two faces 
Inside and out
Side by side thinking about


                                                      Soumit Dey...

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We can’t catch the breezes inside,
so we take to the porches, verandas, fire escapes.
Watch an asbestos moon rise
over steaming rooftops,
and count flags from far away cities.

Below, beetles swallow our Elm trees whole,
as I listen to the neighbors bickering
and someone else’s harmonica....

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Bickering sunlight,
I must leave now.
Just when it was getting good
The pitcher pitched back,
With the juices starting to flow.
So settle your hounds,
Bottle your wings,
Or watch the glass smash in the mirror.
My mind is witches glue.
Audacious, vile, spooking your spine
Into living again....

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• Will you, won't stop your yapping?
• Leaving me scornful with my foot tapping
• Should you, need you waste our time?
• Bickering about needless and petty things
• Do learn to mute it sometime
• 'Cause my leave will leave me with glee
• With the knowledge that I'm finally free...

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Clowns bickering over bullying allegations 
Imagine the hyprocracy 
expressed inside these certain voices 
claiming they are defending the indefensible 
When they stand totally ignorant 
in favour of killing babies 
Truth has a backbone to every word 
within that which takes away 
the value from human life...

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I dont want perfect i want my opposite
But despite the bickering please don't quit
I wont tell you, but you have my heart
And i'll think of you when were apart
We disagree on most, more than not
But our entwined minds have not forgot
The smiles, memories and moments shared
The hidden ways we've shown we've cared...

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You're their cup of tea, their bread and butter
A real cash cow, drink straight from your udder

If you want laws passed,be a dentist
They'd rather be your ventriloquist

Bickering over minimum wages
Taking their cues from a criminal's pages

You can't pass go and you can not trespass
Unless you are a member of Congress...

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A Difference in Opinion 

There once was a conversation
Bickering about something,
Something somewhat preposterous. 
The two fought
 side on side 
Left on right
When in the end they agree to disagree 
cause both are too obstinate, mulish, and pig headed
There all of these at once because no one would listen. 

10/20/2021...

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When your family has an elder
The senior or head of the family
You need to unite together for
The sake of the older family member
You should want them to live
Out their days with peace
Of mind and happiness, knowing
That there’s no bickering
Or bitterness among you 
You can sit all differences aside
For the sake of your elder...

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Thus be the end of us, me
every bickering into thought
(feuled by the emptiness in me)
to let promises be death caught.    
"why", you ask. Million reasons.
Not one good enough.
         All good enough (for me)
at the end
impossible to defend.
Enough to leave.
"Come," you said, "don't be a fool"
Knowlingly
I crawled back into your bed....

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