Short Doled Out Poems
Short Doled Out Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Doled Out by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Doled Out by length and keyword.
Building a Beautiful Body
I wanted a buff body, to look good in my "snuggs".
But ignored advice doled out by fitness droids.
Like: never use performance enhancing drugs
or be tempted to use Anabolic Steroids.
After 6 months, I just look like a thug wearing a rug…
…with a Nasty Squint and Diabolic Hemorrhoids
[this poem was first published on my blog - http://wp.me/p2mUkP-eH
with one of my sketch doodles & makes more sense in context of the whole post]...
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Categories:
doled out, body, funny, humorous, irony, silly, drug,
Form:
Light Verse
A Rose Lies Dying
A rose lies dying,
petals fall one by one;
scatter, wind blown and random.
upon fresh turned earth.
Bitter silence,
cold,
indifferent,
wraps around my shoulders.
A quiet companion
I hold close.
Friends with strange faces,
smile sadly with inadequate words.
Doled out clichés fall
upon ears that hear only
your forgotten voice.
Memories of years revisited
dusted off and polished;
lost days irreplaceable.
Life with out you carries on....
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Categories:
doled out, death, introspection, loss, mother,
Form:
Free verse
A Drinking Man
Each night she left him bleary -
his mind foaming in a glass
of Guiness.
Disappointments wore her life thin,
nuptials picked to a fugue and dinge,
by his thick-tongued spiel.
“I can change him.”
Nothing changed.
Long she withered and waned.
Friends doled out sympathy
like spreadable butter,
yet her bread was dry.
Long she withered.
Daily she wiped
a vinyl calico tabletop
wet with spilled beer
and self-pity.
She got a second job.
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Categories:
doled out, poetry,
Form:
Free verse