Short Expletives Poems

take it easy folks
expletives hurt more than knives
the hermit yet laughs

29-June-2021...

Read More

Hammering away happily
whistling,to himself blithely
his hammer slipped
his nail blackened
the expletives came quickly


ty Rick for the last line...

Read More

I try not to use expletives,
When I get in a stew.

Swearing is not ladylike,
It's not the thing to do.

Perhaps I am no lady,
Because all too quickly I find

When I see unfairness
These words spring into mind....

Read More

Young teenage drivers with looks of scorn
Coming up behind blaring their horn
With anger and road rage
Too scary for their age
Especially with expletives sworn 

7/30/19

Contest: Whats Bugging Me

Sponsor: Kim Rodrigues...

Read More

Alveoli burst in seething pain
Green bile floods out of lacerations.
Cruciform expletives implode into disaster.
I slice cornea's from my weary eyes.
Scum stained nails rip teeth from jagged mouths.
I stood in the womb of creation and cried.
Assailed on all sides by the blinding dark....

Read More

Breast machine squashed boobs, ouch it hurt ...
Expletives I tried not to blurt!
Next an ultra sound scan
Doc said you’re all clear Jan
For cancer you must stay alert


I got good news yesterday my 'lump' turned out to be scar tissue from my surgery in 2019:-) 

29/5/19...

Read More

My hubby just fell out of bed
He banged his elbow and his head
Now I can hear groaning
Expletives and moaning
I’m certain that he isn’t dead!

Only the first line is true – last night we watched a programme on how easily people lie but on this occasion I would call this poetic licence

10/10/18...

Read More

Expletive deleted from the text
The word is taboo not allowed in the mix
For these Celtic words was once forbidden
From the Norman Conquest or so it’s written

But now the words can be said
Expletives are heard and read
For the n word is worse or so I’ve heard
So now if you use it, you sound absurd.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

Read More

The words you use have a serraded edge
they cause the deepest damage 
they also  take the longest time to heal 
speak with kindness in your heart 
As words can wound , meant or not
whether said in the heat of battle
or delivered from a cold heart 
the pain is the same the wound as deep 
speak gently in a measured tongue
leave expletives unsaid and exclamation unused
use the language of Marcel Marceau....

Read More

You press the keys time and again
And errors bog you with flat disdain 
In vain you try and rack your brain 
To figure what has derailed the train 

The website is but a tangled web
That sinks your spirits to a new ebb
Supposedly a tool to expedite work
Actually a means to shut your neb

On its homepage, the motto to dangle
Must be YOUR NEEVES WE JAR AND JANGLE
AS EXPLETIVES POUR OUT OF YOUR MOUTH 
YOUR PEACE OF MIND WE LOVE TO MANGLE...

Read More

Be careful of the word that slips
from in between your lovely lips.
Be sure it’s not deemed a disgrace,
not to be used in any place.

I thought that I was pretty hep,
but now I know I’m out of step.
I long for the time not long ago,
when such words were a big no-no.

You’ll find in Webster’s Dictionary,
good words both rare and ordinary,
that would explain your feelings better
than expletives and the F-letter.


Joyce Johnson 7/14/12...

Read More