Short Braggarts Poems

Simple squamous epithelium
That lines the frothing orifice
Of politicians and wine-soaked braggarts

Cytoplasm
That flows equally
In justice and infectious regurge

Genes
That transplant the ghastly
Pale-light abscess of custom-made drivel

God, Ph.D.,  you too?

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I love the way she writes, 

and walks, 

with all the confidence and strength

that comes her way so naturally.

Not for her the forced bravado

of braggarts 

or the simpering shyness 

of pretenders.

All she does and writes is bold,

certain, 

and immodest. 

She makes men’s blood run stronger

and offers no apologies 

for the woman in her poetry,

and in her walk....

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BULLIES




Cockroaches think they are so cool . . . .
Scurrying around in corners scaring women
Mosquitoes strut around the class in school. . . . 
Biting the teachers and the children

And they seem to not realize that their existence. . . . 
Is entirely transient and with very little meaning to last
And that with the passage of time and distance. . . . 
No one will even remember them from the past

Bullies and braggarts think they are so cool. . . ....

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My gram can make a quilt in a day, the six-year-old said.
My aunt came make one with her eyes shut, standing on her head.
My mother can make two before tomorrow’s grass has wet dew.
You are both crazy! You braggarts, you two!

My gram is a quilt-maker, and hers are the best.
My auntie’s are so beautiful, she edges out the competition, said Crest.
My mother’s are so fantastic, she sells her ideas on line.
Still bragging and boasting, these students of mine!...

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rainbow chick with attitude
took the branch by storm
stomping the leaves off

the other birds flew away
trilling and cawing their distress
she looks like an angel but she is a devil

rainbow chick loved her instant reputation
the sheer power went to her beak
She strutted and rutted until she fell to her death

moral of this story will have to be given
in chick heaven where she is strutting and trilling
totally ignored by other braggarts who landed on the same level...

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