Short Chide Poems

Why do you cry,
And do you sigh?
Just try and smile.

Why do you hide
In your pride?As
I chide you now....

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One cannot chide
A teenage bride
Who wants it all done proper

To God Above
She swears its love
But God knows that's a whopper!...

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Ravenous, my love
My growling needs censor
Churning belly,boiling heat

Famished, my dear
Sweetly chide my wolfish nature
While me, you gently devour...

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She used her temper to totally chide
Most of her countrymen on the hillside
Annoying some greatly
Especially lately
They may have to commit a fratricide...

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We need to embrace our feminine side 
be proud of who we are and never hide 
into the arms of the sea we lovingly chide
we must remember, nature is on our side......

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Mary

Holy Mother Mary 
Always close at hand
I see your sign in my palm 
You calm and understand

Holy Mother Mary
Never there to chide
You mark the hand of all
To still … to love …to guide....

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Stephen, man full of grace
Spoke out the word,face to face,
Unafraid to chastise or chide
As there was no place for truth to hide-
For this faith,was stoned and died.

More on Stephen @ Acts 6/7...

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Our love entices us
to risk the silhouettes 
of those we once held dear
 
Our memories chide us
to hold back our desires
from the one's now so near
 
Our passion keeps us
dodging those shadows
and feeding that which we fear...

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The physics of divinity,
  atheists chide

Pews filled with charlatans,
  believers on trial

Trapped in their reasoning,
  with all logic stretched thin

Building walls to keep light out
  —and darkness within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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There are stages you run to
  and from stages to hide

The performance of a lifetime
  or the shame that will chide 

There are actors in character
   and actors on loan

One change in direction
  —and all meaning has flown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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There are stages you run to,
  and from stages to hide

The performance of a lifetime,
  or the shame that will chide 

There are actors in character,
   and stand-ins on loan

One change in direction
  —and all meaning has flown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Some call me a contrarian
because I shun the Conga Line
observe the strange gyrations
of a movement serpentine.

I stand alone, often dismayed
they chide me: “C’mon take a chance.”
I dare not tell them that I can’t
Cuz I never learned to dance.


John G. Lawless
©10/20/2021...

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No time set aside
The words reformed
Again at their own pace

No place to reside
They’re written down
On a napkin or empty space

When I try to hide
They find me sure
In mountain or in plain

As new moments chide
The past adieu
  —and thunder turns to rain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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The bubble you burst is my pride of command
The trouble you cursed by the chide of my band
The fool that is me is no true folly dodger
Perhaps what you see is a blue Jolly Roger

Taken from "Thru Maritime Miles 7-A Pirates Plea"
Prepared for the "Rithimus Divisa 5 Poetry Contest" 
Submitted on August 31,2020...

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"Ok, Vanna White," she'd chide
While shutting all the cabinet doors 
I'm better at opening than shutting stuff
Like right now
All possibilities left open
Let fate decide
What I think I want 
Never gets dealt
And I'm running out of time 
Bluff my way to some comfort
Another door to opens
Either way
:


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So as deaf to spacious loitering's retried,
that circulations needling, so bona fide
does penetrate my nerve to cause deride
monopolizing cost and courage stride!

Do listen not, to reach my own confide,
a self, an understanding of my chide.
Yet duldrum's ceaseless wavering
does beg its pride -

In repetitious floundering
destroys times guide!...

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 I chide my tongue
I hold my thoughts
Lost in silence 
A child of fear

My words are not my own
My actions controlled
No change no courage
No fire in my soul

Leather to my hands
Wood to my face
Punishment for each and every disgrace

Hold tight to myself
Keep thoughts well hidden
For once in the light
A child i am left only to one word
Obey ...

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Occupations are not 
all useful, like when Sisyphus rolls
and nobody cares. Even Camus
can’t justify my love
of quantum or calculus, when it’s burn-lonely
rolling out the integrals: I integrate
myself into a human
-ist Existentialist here’s the point -ist
theory of why I am why I am
and when I differentiate my parents 
chide me. I gather the pieces again....

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I have long waited 
This sunny day
To chide myself

Should I cast for this clown
Who with dripping mouth
Sang his electorate his ambitions?

Or this home-made angel
Who with wings of kites
Would myrrh his disciples?

And then again I wonder
Should the heavens rock
Who will restrain the storm?

So I take the little ballot
And with raging words
In verse expend my anguish!...

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Two tom cats..
One white,one black.

The white one is may be deaf
But hisses and pisses 

to mark his territory.
He enters the black cat's flat

and attacks without warning.
Fur flying ,cats growling,

wet stuff on the flooring.
The remains are scars the 

claws and teeth tore.
We chide , separate them 

and suggest de sexing....
waterspraying's effective....

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The Scent of summer on my skin 
golden hues of remembrances
The rushing river moves quietly 
into the hours of the day 
Autumn steams by in fired shades 
amber oranges yellows and red 
The whistling winds subside 
and I feel winter's chide 
January shivers homsie brews 
rainy days that end with snow 
Wet leaves cling to the pavement 
tangerine smells of home...

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There’s a blizzard outside
Wanna’ go for a ride?
With toboggans and sleighs
And drifts that amaze

So we bundle up tight
And head out with delight
The winds are so brisk
We evaluate the risk

After our ride
We head back inside
The hot chocolate’s now hot
We sip down a lot

There’s a blizzard outside
The winds howl and chide
“Stay by the fire,
And avoid my ire!”...

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My love is deeper than the Red Sea.
From which the Egyptian corpses neither breathe nor see.
More rapid than the tides of Tiber!
That chide and shock great Caesar who did wither.

The Garden of Eden has no sweeter fruit,
Nor medicine or even healing root,
That can compare to my love that gives the earth rotten teeth,
Nor any other medicine to end earth’s weeps....

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O God!




You are a fraud,



Why have you taken,




My mother so far?




 




Who will woke me up?




Who will dress me up?




Who will scold me?




Who will love me when I cry?




 




O God!




Please bring my mother back.




I am still a child,




Who don’t know how to chide.




 




She was so gentle,




She was so humble,




How could you kill her?




It was a blunder....

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From this cool tip
Even from this side of the cape
The compelling nimbus 
Of inhuman dogma comes.

They come with sharp kieries
To ruin this innocent kettle-drummer
Even their worthless kafir.

From afar I watch and hoot to no avail
For the hawks glide
And carry our guiltless chicks.

We chide with less success 
The vultures hover with persistence
Awaiting an imminent death
Of nature’s impeached hawks....

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