Short Gossiper Poems

Whenever I find myself being the subject of gossip, I always seek the gossiper out
and say, "Get yourself a life so that one day maybe I'll have someone I can talk about"....

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a limp flag
hangs at half-mast
the silence broken
by the church bell
and village gossiper


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A Brian Strand Contest
Placed 1st
June 2021...

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The old deacon is a gossiper 
He's like an old woman 
Though he's an avid worshipper 
He does not count as one

Deaconess is his old wife 
But like him, she's like an old toad 
For, what they do is to mine other's life 
Like they don't have their own load 

August 30, 2023...

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The Gossip and the Ear

A gossiper will stir the pot
	they’ll say what is; they’ll say what’s not; 
they stir and stir till what they’ve got
	is stench and putrid words that rot. 

But gossipers I do not fear; 
	they only say the things they hear. 
The ones I fear the most is clear: 
	the one who has the willing ear....

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Don’t tell it to the wind
To be blown away as vapor
Or share it with a gossiper
As fragile as a dandelion.

Don’t speak of it on the mountaintop;
Even the clouds have ears.
For fear that the Devil hears –
Don’t pray for it aloud to God.

Let the wish build up inside
Then straight-faced, release it subtly –
As your actions make it be –
Until its existence can’t be denied....

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When is a burglar
Not a burglar
That is when he is
Dwelling in the House
       Of the Lord
And when is a sinner
Not a sinner
When he is sinning'
For the grace of GOD
What doth a
Gossiper be if he is
Spreading the word
Of God
But,
A source of discomfort
For thy own enemy
And
A conduit for us all
During the
Post coming resurrection
Of the first coming
Of the Prince of Kings'

GF...

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