Short Grievance Poems

Same roof and you cried
I failed and I ruined us
My death makes amends...

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monarchs sail plashless
while her shards of deceit pierce
my aorta, ripe...

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Intrusive,
Forbidden,
Off limits,
Repel.
Grievance,
Intractable, 
Vengeance,
Explain.
Young,
Off limits,
Underage....

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Rain removes the difficulty of the drought earth
it's the grievance epic of the blue sky at birth



-Thursday, May 30, 2019 Chattogram...

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In the midst of expectations
she learnt acceptance
far away from grievance
she practiced transitions.

She doesn’t seek perfections
just some inductance
and some capacitance
are what lead to her aspirations.
...

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Insecurity
Breeds Negativity
Grievance as we grow

Ingenuity
Breeds Confidence
Reinventing what we know

Divinity
Breeds Enlightenment
Stealing insecurity’s show

Insecurity
Subsequent to…  
Is denied a place to go


By Jane Bowen...

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Kiss 
The heart
It’s burning
In the grievance 
For long time waiting
If you come hug and kiss 
Water by heart to meet calm
Let all pains be the sunny dew
Embracing of horizons will smile
To lift the love from pain of solitude 


©Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
13/11/2022...

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A mean sentence written in the eyes
Of accountants and prison wardens
Blood-thirsty with night sticks brim
-ming with electric hate laughing
in empty rooms glasses slide and
break the walls of time cliché into
mirrors of fascination and grievance
levitate voices speaking sand…...

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You've said it hurts so bad
But it'll heal in time's provision
Stay sane, stay strong
You've everything to lose
You just deny your sight to it
You're all stuck in a world you've created
And the pain you think is haunting you-
Isn't

Raise your head and look around
There's more than the one you grieve...

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A longing since medieval,  
A plea for life's survival,  
Boundless in its scope,  
Safety, an elusive rope.

A concept drifting in hope,  
Pragmatic yet in vogue,  
A specter in the shadows,  
Darkness in the meadows.

Volatile in its essence,  
Thesaurus lost in grievance,  
Meaning fading, now receding,  
Yearning for new definitions....

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Buddy, Pal
The pimiento to my sal
Let this grievance parlay
To the earthen mounds stay
Better it be, thinkest me
To be alive and free
And now we come to it
Must my sword sharpen thy wit?
Friend, fellow
let this fine wine mellow
To the river Styx bid hello
Better it be, thinkest me
To be alive and free
But now come we to it
Shall my sword sharpen thy wit?...

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love
what love is

love
where love lives lovely

love
where hate lives wickedly
to make lovely

love all
like the brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers
like the better half, darling beloved

love
the peace, happiness
to be grateful

love
the disturbance, sorrowfulness 
to erase the self-grievance

love
the love key
it's humanity


-18/11/19 CTG, BD...

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hate, like flames in someone's eyes,
anger which  makes you want to hurt,
vexation provoked by fury,
and fury held inside.


The state of being annoyed,
displeasure arouse by grievance,
a taste of bitterness caused by outrage,
and outrage  internally kept.


maddening violence
aggravated by exasperation,
indignation evoked by irritation
and irritation born privately....

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NO ANCHOR FOR RANCOUR

It’s loose, upset, resentful and bitter
And seeking solace, it’s not a quitter
Nowhere to stop and put down roots
And with burning rage it’s in cahoots
Maybe this grievance will never end
And into madness may just descend
It was a flame, now a burning ember
Such an insult one has to remember
Revenge will be the solemn pledge
As it smiles and sharpens the edge...

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A Twisted synopsis derived from convenience;
Some convenient colossus of self-righteous grievance,
     Pain unforgotten and never forgiven;
     Void from accounting’s a world made to live in.
It started with lies but at first they weren’t mine;
But fear had me broken and it twisted our time.
       So now it’s let go or crawl in the past;
       But how long must I keep kneeling to the face with a mask....

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I stand at temptations door...
As anger spurs a grievance withheld.
Surreptitiously you praise the incongruent
While flinging to the wayside the valuable.

Eyes closed to the importance of veracity,
You belabor simplicity with objectivity denounced
As you are drawn only to the iconoclastic.
I long to visualize cronyism obliterated.


The Contest sponsor Jerry T. Curtis
My feelings about those N/A's...

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It's a rocky-road journey
Hold on tight
You're not alone
We're with you

As promised, day will get better
Allow yourself the pain and grievance
There's no turning back
Look forward
You've progressed enough

I can't wait for the laugh
When it's over
You won the victory
We couldn't be any prouder

Presently, don't punish yourself
There will come better days
Hold on tight
Keep the faith, darling...

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Sweet is the harmony of silence 
It crawls slowly in the hand of time
But not in the tomb of grievance 
Where you are your own enemy
It crawls slowly in the hand of time
Watching the towers of your cell
Where you are your own enemy
Shadowed memories are pressed on play
Watching the towers of your cell
But not in the tomb grievance
Shadowed memories are pressed on play
Sweet is the harmony of silence......

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She close her eyes
Underneath tree
Holding the diary
Clutching her palm
Her dream to reach sky
Lost under clouds 
Her wings
which used to spread wide
Cut by her fate 

She chooses this life herself 
There's no place 
Where she can lament 
There's no anyone to whom
She can share her grievance 

Her dream cut her into slices
But she never get tired
Instead she stand high 
Never fading her smile 


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Golden strings of life singing exuberance of birth
Silver strings of death ringing grievance of fate
Between life and death wandered cotton clouds
Shedding shine of sun or pouring useless tears

Winding mysteries of labyrinths lying ahead
Waiting to tread to a denizen of paradise
O man, your frenzied footsteps of lies sure ‘ll fail
When the holy glimpse of truth in the florid firmament.



Date of Entry : 20-08-2020...

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the grievance of his countenance 
bag with handles
brown eyes cast shadow on the ground
waxy candles

partway to work he found a pup
recklessly dead
‘my wife will suffer as i am’
his mind did dread

she approached the bag and looked in
was not her dog
her husband brought home a mistake
his head a log

speedily he called the number
gave some bad news
this pup certainly travels life
forging the blues

5/22/2019...

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The days where the morning  dusk ,
Stars timorous to light up at night.
A drop of clear salty liquid 
rolled like  rainstorm,
At last Love  brought grievance.

Deluded by your love
Illusively dancing with you in  white,
In a desert filled with roses.
Where fearing Love
pays death servile breath.

An augury which may never be,
Stupor by this love,
Disguised as felicity,
Let it be known that your love
portends the End of my Days....

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I'm wasted by my apathy
I'm barely even here
My will knows Ambiguity:
A grievance for my peer

I rarely Love my fellow man
Or, practice what I preach
Deception is my biggest fan
My Dreams are out of reach

I live as Epimetheus:
And, run from each mistake
I hide my Lies, like most of us
And, give much less than take

I lust to see my Ego fed
To hope this Lie is true
But, deep inside, I feel I'm dead--
Pretending, just like you......

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I steal 
yes I steal 
o beauty
I steal the grievance of your life

o no; 
not I'm the thief of happiness 

it's the blue
the far sky 
o no, that's not the color of pain 

I can decorate- 
with the sweet breeze 
mild more than the south;
with the fragrance of rose 
fragrant more than the Arabian scent

Yes I steal, 
still steal the pain, the grief 

I the pain killer of your life 
you're mine, only would be mine


-31/10/19 CTG BD...

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grievance of sordid hourglass, ears prickling
                                       — eyes creep aloft creepy mask

his contrition false
                     — skin crawls as if consuming hallucinogens

bad enough, silencing of wrinkled smiles
                                     — the time bomb tic-tic-tic boom

stocks made for buffoons
                    — turkey neck gobbled up progenitor’s gravy



                                      3/4/2021...

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