Short Dismissive Poems

Harmful extraction. 

Dismissive of resilience. 

Ignoring shivers....

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Dismissive I got, not answering your calls anymore.
It's sad that you don't know the Signal.
No, you don't need to look what is hiding behind it.
You have no right.
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How the words of the woeful
wane in the light by the waxing moon
How dismissive of our sorrows
are the shadows cast by tall oaks.
How precious the shimmer of stones
in play with the wind and waters

Bite Size Poem no.40 Poetry Contest...

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Sable
Gable
Betray’l
Fatal
Eyes that pierced, not sable, Gable-gray.
Won’t give a d$mn - betray’l fatal bray.
Absolving his harlot Scarlet wife.
Dismissive of starlit starlet strife.
Harlot
Scarlet
starlit
starlet
...

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 from the dazzling dusk till darkest of dawn
      demons deliver their delicate song
     a dreadfully dance delightfully done
 for daunting the dead delinquent the sun                       
    a daring dull day dismissive of night 
 it dwindled the dark then demanded light...

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Is your poetry now dusty,
abandoned on the shelf

Have your dreams become dismissive,
do you live for someone else

Is there mold inside your memory box,
questions all long gone

Do you walk that lonely road alone
—your heart to drag along

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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She is not just any old ship.
She is a warrior, tried and true.
USS Iowa.
I have a plethora of stories about her.
That I share with no one.
For to share would feel like being dismissive.
I cannot dishonor her by disclosing her secrets.
It would feel also like diminishing my time served....

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Behind Those Eyes

What’s behind those dark brown eyes?
A scheming mind, a selfish streak
Blaming others, with blatant lies
Words of scorn crammed in cheek
Emptied on a victim when confronted
Defensive beyond any other I’ve known
Dismissive, emphatic, if cover blown.

David Cox 13/09/23...

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Mixed signals 
Superficial love
A hoax
A dismissive love
That come so genuine 
To only fool 
Break
Cause 
Pain to the receiving soul

Once loved
Once thought as the one
The dream girl of my dreams
To avoid 
To be avoidant 
Rip’s my love at a whim
With ease to break my heart
So easily
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Is your poetry now dusty,
  as it lays back on the shelf

Have your dreams become dismissive,
  do you live for someone else

Is there mold inside your memory box,
   questions now long gone

Do you walk that lonely road alone,
 —your heart to drag along

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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It’s what kids have been doing all day
A dismissive answer to weigh
‘t is also an answer to thanks
And what’s needed for lovers to say
But mostly it’s everything else
almost all of an atom and more

So it’s really not at all
Just space in time
With little additions
A lot of momentum
And  all of us on for the ride...

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I can be soft and gentle,
Or harsh and crude,
Charismatically diplomatic,
Or impersonal and rude,
I can be kind and giving,
And selfishly living,
I can console with sincere empathy,
Or dismissive with rapier cruelty,
If I could harmonize these bitonal character traits,
Life would be,
A fabulously elegant,
Emotional symphony....

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Though it's true I can never make a wrong right,
But I can at least make you feel the slightest bit alright.

He very well may not be the only love of my life,
But I can at least treat him as though he is.

Seems I am quite often dismissive of your attempts at advice,
But I can at least appreciate your gestures of concern for me....

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If you don't mean it,
I'd rather you'd not say
Anything to me
If it's not said sincerely
Then let it be.

Your body language
Say's it all,
And your tone of voice is rough.
I do not need an apology.
Your expression is enough.

Please do not say you're sorry
In a dismissive haughty way
If you don't mean it
It is a useless word to say!...

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My yard thrives in wildness.
Patches of dirt- cowlicks of grass.
Every shade of unknown flowers.
My yard is a swayback horse.
Amidst rows of sequined asses
That live just up the hill.

Their lawns sprayed slick with poisonous perfection.
Rarely, they give me a dismissive wave, but never see them smile.
My yard thrives in wildness, and they hate me for it....

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Funny how a fickle heart works:   
always pining for what was then 
and loving to hate this moment,   
oft returning to way back when.

Regretful of all that are gone,  
dismissive of the present day,
it cannot wait to get past now
rushing forward to get away.    

But wait until tomorrow comes      
when today is a faded memory, 
heart will pause foolishly longing 
for that it cursed just yesterday!...

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Trending the nude prints,
life had been dismissive,
plucking the gray hairs from brows.

Manipulating the dopamine
the body’s odour
wafted through the cluttering limbs.

Charcoal underlines the
need of a wounded dove.
What else one needs from grain and water.

The tears will sew the lids
one day. I don’t want
to *******he sea again.

The dogfish comes on the
shores for a rebuttal.
It had never led a dog’s life.



Satish Verma...

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bitterly cold
            anxious
            peering into the gloom
        staring    motionless
I remember            imagine
   many
      thoughts
        race through the mind
agitated
intrigued
        alienated  isolated
nothing becomes known
   as
      bizarre  conversations        stun

I become curious
          intensely so
then
      dismissive
          of the oblique way 
     ahead
then
     reluctantly        go...

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One day when the POTUS was talking,
a muffled cough started him balking.
In arrogant boldness
and dismissive coldness,
he sent our poor Chief of Staff walking!




On June 17, when Trump was being interviewed, he
ordered Mick Mulvaney out of the Oval Office for coughing.
Mulvaney, who is the acting White House Chief of Staff,
also fills other positions.  POTUS--President of the United States

Written June 29, 2019, for Tania Kitchin's Limerick Contest...

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Triggers

Soft & loud
Here comes the storm cloud

Sssh the silent treatment
Meant for cruelty intent

Everyone’s the enemy
Even if I don’t agree

Stomping, slamming,huffing & puffing
Saying he’s only joking and bluffing

Ignoring, interrupting, intimidation
Only leads to darkness and deflation

Rolling his eyes and being dismissive
Thoughts of not to live

Invisible is how I feel
He says it’s no big deal

Triggers are all around
Without any sound
...

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I don't mean to be dismissive                                    'Whatever you think'     
  but some parents are much too                                 'You kids decide'                                         
                                            permissive                   'What could go wrong?'        
The kids often turn out derisive ~                              'No skin off our backs'
  their folks, you surprised? so submissive                    'Have it your way'...

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The ego of the atheist,
himself the standard bearer
Where power of a mortal mind,
inflates beyond repair

His facts he weds intensely,
dimension fencing in
What’s not explained, he must profane,
all emptiness within

Whose formulas and strictures,
his Rosary to proclaim
What can’t be solved, new facts resolve,
dismissive in his shame

The ending predetermined,
his choices lock the door
Alone, his dialectic dies
—naked to implore

(The First Book Of Prayers: January, 2022)...

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There once was a cat who had only one ear,
alas, only one ear had he.
How it was lost, one can only excogitate,
where it had gone, none had seen.

It could be contested it was intercepted,
by misfortune sneaking about it.
It was deemed quite plausible and not that improbable,
that carelessness, sadly, had found it.

-But the fact remained square, that it wasn't there,
and there was nothing more to say.
When asked if he missed it, he said, quite dismissive,
"I never saw it anyway"....

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