Short Gloating Poems

the borrowed time
loaned and complete
duration of one's own
thought process 
to fit the wedges
of a gloating 
truthfulness...

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King
Haughty,royal
Ruling, gloating,dining
Gold,mansion,clay,straw
Sowing,hoeing,starving
Humble, ragged
Peasant


6-16-19...

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oversized gloating hot air balloon 
case of morning gluttony 
bigger than Donald Trump baby balloon 
one that gloat’s over your orgy...

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Little starling,

   perched in your woody heights,

   kneading thy wet wings,

   and gloating with song -----

Then flying off to some far shore:

   Is it envy that I feel?...

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The Trumpet Blower
The seat pushed higher never lower
Always trying to trump
Swaying  the gloating rump

July 27, 2018
CLERIHEW CONTEST Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: The Name Forsakes Me...

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Gloating monkey sat on palm tree 
plucked pods and broke them;
he drank and drank all the wine
in drunken mood he shouted;
“I am the king of the universe,
Master of the jungles I am…!
Come, attack. I’ll show you
material I’m made of.”...

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clover prances prettily
moss curls up next to fern
dandelion's leaves gloating 
ethereal verdant forest
showing off spring's color 
entire world glowing 
in Wizard of Oz delight
Rejuvenating and revitalizing
Every aspect of the meadow...

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The day I faced a peacock was the first day of the rest of my life.
We discussed politics, religion, and argued with all kinds of strife.
This peacock’s eyes narrowed, I could see by his beak he did not agree.
Without malice or gloating, I admit this did not bother me....

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Killer whales in the flood
That fills the room, vacuum parts and mattress floating
Above mud;

I bluff them back;
No shame in mud now, I’m noting
Drawbacks,

It seems,
Having gloating
Dreams.

Killer whales in the flood—
No shame in dirt now—I’m noting
Dreams.
...

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Lover Estranged


A man spurned and estranged 
is a man violently deranged.

Hopeless, helpless and enraged
he leaves everything ravaged.

For, he looks not in his heart
to pick an' right the wrong part,

gloating on the gorged heart-
by a boomerang o' Cupid's dart!


31st Aug' 2013...

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A tiny mouse tip-toed cross my path
   Arose immediately my wrath 
Set for him, a pungent mousetrap
   Filled with muenster cheese

Tingling all over, anticipating a bloodbath 
   I cringed at myself, a bona fide psychopath
Gloating over the creature's perceived unease
   How dare he forget to say "Please?"...

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Trance like stare, as empty irises glare into the voiD.
The image of death sleeks past with gloating stealth
stealing happiness as it drip feeds from the inners of a rotting corpse.
 
Will has lost its way and not a sign of Hope in hell!
This place that can only be described as existence
and hidden from those with rose coloured glasses....

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Wishing, Begging, Hoping, Pleading
Gasping, Crying, Sighing, Bleeding
Drowning, Flying, Soaring, Floating
Whining, Gleaming, Pouting, Gloating
Needing, Wanting, Having, Lacking
Coughing, Gagging, Choking, Yakking
Trying, Doing, Succeeding, Failing
Walking, Running, Swimming, Sailing
Loving, Hating, Liking, Caring
Living, Dying, Existing, Daring...

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thorough tsunami
hundreds dead and missing too
vacation homes lost

unexpected quake
her fault line grins for miles
separates families

popping forest fire
her blackened devastation
gloating with loud smacks

houses blown away
tornado reigns as winner
huge devastation

flooding creeps up fast
the family remains asleep
found dead in river...

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Lucifer laughs
gloating about the pandemic
loving our anguish

Keeping us apart
trying our patience
miscommunication and misunderstandings 

Reveling in our sorrow 
And our social distancing
Lucifer thinks he is winning

Not understanding our resiliency
Underestimating our spiritual prowess
Not seeing our faith, misreading the power of prayer...

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The dog received her incentive check ten days ago.
The cat has been gloating because hers was in the noon mail.
I think I saw a squirrel waving his around in the yard.
I think it’s for an incentive to shelter in place a strange voice said.
I turned and saw it was a raccoon wearing a top hat and red vest.
And just when I thought I had heard and seen everything…....

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The lemon hit my nose at full force,
the second the lid was off.
I ran into the kitchen, disbelieving
For I had already devoured two this month,
and my husband was not speaking to me
due to my nasty disposition.
I fell into his arms, 
leaning over him
with a butter knife,
slicing a tiny piece
of lemon pound cake,
gloating that he thought it was
all about him...

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eerie vision vied
pluming perforated plights
dark dribbles dug
masticating munching mug
hoisted hankerings smothered
felon zeal fostered

moaning mist cloned
thorn ocean thrown
gloating gaunt glows

salient shaver sucked
la-de-da lures lust
wielded wits gulped

airy alakazam ailed
porous pupils' plight
      '20:05:13:18:47

Note: Of porous perception....

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Ninja woman steadily studies me.
She has come to live, and she is gloating.
I feel a power I have never felt.

She is coming to life in my living room.
Staring at me from beyond the sofa.
I recognize her look; she is gloating.

I feel a bit threatened. She exudes danger.
Can I sleep tonight? Will she annihilate me with her weapons?
Does she not care that I am her creator?...

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The Feeling of Fishing while Floating
Is Graded on Goading, and Gloating

Bystanders oft blindly believe
In salmon the size of my sleeve

Tall Tales at the Time Told True
In Grandeur they Gained and they Grew


But my Rod and Reel won't Remember
Come the Dread and the Din of December

And by the Time I again Tell my Tale
I Will have Wrangled Ahab's White Whale

2/13/11...

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Numbers are given out randomly at the DMV.
No problem if you ask my roo Wallabee and me.
Wallabee gets his license renewed right away.
I sit and wait through noon ‘til the very next day.

Guess they liked you better than me I say to him.
He laughs and points to our other pal Old Jim.
They are prejudiced against women he says to me.
So what else is new? I ask my gloating pal Wallabee....

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You know what can give you the Sunday morning blues, 
is when you are approach with nothing but bad news.
 You know The kind of news that can cause hurt
, but that 's nothing but the devil at work.
 Forcing you to listen to what people have to say,
 when you just want to listen to the word and pray. 
It brings you to anger and causing you to sin,
 and then the devil is gloating over another win....

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There is a hammer on my keyboard
Taking me hostage
Reminding me of something I wanted to do
Yesterday but did not get around to it

I stare at it, and glare at it,
Angry beyond belief.
That I kept saying I wanted to
hang those sixty-five canvases,
and yet, there they are, not one hung up.

The mean hammer has been
Thrown across the room now,
It no longer bothers us,

My gloating keyboard and me....

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There are 2 of us on the boat, trying our best to catch a big rainbow trout,
We tried so many flies but none seemed to work, throwing our plans into doubt.

There are wet flies and dry ones, but which one will work best,
So we keep on perservering put each fly to the test.

I tried a dry fly one that was gently floating,
When a trout suddenly grabbed it, a beautiful fish, I looked at my mate but I admit I just couldn't help gloating!...

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Surmised, assumed 
 Foreboding shadows brood 
 Like omens without mediums 
 Their strange impressions loom

 Blind they seem 
 Gloating as they gleam 
 Rippling, murmuring 
 Stifling a scream 

 On the brink of speech 
 Their mutterings recede 
 Occupied by the thoughts 
 Of the lost and in between 

 Conceit or dream 
 Mythic or obscene 
 They coddle with a moonlit bribe 
 Confiding the unseen 

 Written by © Raven Drake...

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