Short Grimace Poems

the stubborn grimace
just another teen age phase~
I stumble along......

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evil-eyed Jack o’ lantern
	grimaces in the dark~
		helplessly perturbed pumpkin...

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Grandpa gives kerchief
novice fisherman
catfish pierced hand
the years grimace and grin
for a lesson infused...

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plastic surgery
features are frozen in time
grimace locked in place


3~14~15
Three line poetry contest – Debbie Guzzi...

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Watched a nature program about Africa last night
Bout the animals that roam free, what a glorious sight
Survival of the fittest
Can make us grimace
As the prey succumbs in a fight for their life...

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Ogden Nash begets the Nasher
Humored couplets somewhat brasher

Seems these rhymes are wrenched in nature
Clenched, this nomenclature impure

Odd end Ogden, gnashing nashers,
Hence the wincing grimace assures...

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Spring out of sadness
Spring into happiness
Spring away from hate
Spring forward to love
Spring  back from grimace
Spring  blossoms of smiles
Spring onward to destroy weeds
Spring ahead and share faithful seeds....

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If

If you are to do it,
do it with style,
make people laugh,
make people smile.

If you can not do it,
do it with tact,
make them grimace,
make their face crack.

By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison...

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My eyes becken ye forth
                                           grimace at your reflection
                                              As eyes tell no lies
                                       Peering beneath,your heart lights...

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Oh tell me dear sweet lady friend
Why do you grimace so?
The world is yours for taking
Or is it, you don’t know?
I see within you, a great strength
A light that brightly shines
So why not smile, sweet lady friend
And leave your cares behind...

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Smile and the world smiles with you, fart and it stops smiling
Farts make us cringe causing a grimace with intense perspiring
A real stinky-poo smell
Which is not nouvelle
Since ancient times, people thought farts meant glad tidings...

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Smile and the world smiles with you, fart and it stops smiling
Farts make us cringe causing a grimace with intense perspiring
A real stinky-poo smell
Which is not nouvelle
Since ancient times, people thought farts meant glad tidings...

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There is a smudge on my wall
sometimes its a face in grimace
the next half a ballerina mid pirouette
sometimes a gnarled witches snarled portent of hell
or tree of palm sliced by sickle moon
others an alien gun complete with hum
or a rose half begun...

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Watched a nature program about Africa last night
And the animals that roam free what a glorious sight
Survival of the fittest
Can make us grimace
As the prey succumbs in a fight for their life


Hard to watch!!!


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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You haven’t changed much since the Garden
Except that you have added deception to your ignorance
Forbidden fruit once tricked you
Now you sin with enchanting eyes
You’re euphoric when I fall
You grimace when I crawl
My sorrow brings a laugh
My blood in your bath...

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Looking for your twinkling eyes,
I found instead a huge surprise - 
eyes like olive pits 

A fishy smile beneath those eyes,
grey grimace that you can’t disguise-
sardine on a Ritz!

(just Andrea and i playing around with that tail-
rhyme form I am first stanza; She is second.)...

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Looking for your twinkling eyes,
I found instead a huge surprise - 
eyes like olive pits 

A fishy smile beneath those eyes,
grey grimace that you can’t disguise-
sardine on a Ritz!

(just Susan and i playing around with that tail-
rhyme form She is first stanza; I am second.)...

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Knocking, knocking door
Do not fear, look who is there
May you find next floor

No phantom-spirit
Beats it the heart of timid
Just knight of dark-lit

Glad heart in grimace
Thirty First October plays
Halloween for ease

-October 31, 2018 Chattogram 

//
Happy Halloween-2018...

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smile
            radiant, beautiful
    beaming, wearing, gleaming
chirpiness, cheese, scowl, grimace 
 disapproving, furrowing, accusing
             annoyed, worried 
                      frown




Date created: 01/23/2022...

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With shrug of shoulders, roll of eyes in head
We accept our failure and resign.
Reluctance and revenge agenda
Hidden behind a cheesy grin smile
Made while stepping back, withdrawing out of range.
Disconnected, disengaged with bitter grimace, unseen
We wave goodbye with a sigh, nigh silent within....

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SNOW!

Snow, my husband knows…
I step out in it, not caring
that I’m still in my pajamas
So exciting!
I tell my husband, “Come out in it…”
He says, with a grimace,
“Remember where I’ve been…”
Boston that is - and we both laugh.
“But this is new for me!” 
First time this year
and I am so excited!

2/8/2020...

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Great Christ
When you come to your kingdom
Without pain and grimace
For the cost of so much dross
That we pandering to pride become
And I
Skin blackened in the furnace
Sigh for a stronger dye
Than fire
Like the night that mirrors thy soul
Since a black being
Must have a black desire
Remember me
Longing so to love
And glisten love like gold...

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A gent from the South Scottish Isles
had terribly painful large piles
when he tried to sit down
he would grimace and frown
soft cushions he hoards in big piles!


syllable counter used 'how many syllables' 8,8,6,6,8
11~11~ 2014
poem revised for contest 18~11~14
Contest:Limericks Clean and Clever
Sponsor: Roy Jerden...

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Fall breeze, a soothing goodbye
kiss on amber leaves filled sky.
Entrancing they fall, descend
round and round last final bend. 


Goodbye, fall, welcome winter
sky. Sun grimace at bitter
descend for longer night hold,
bend to the grim winter cold.

3/8/2019


Poetry Contest: Jueju-Qijue With A Twist 
Sponsored by: Charles Messina...

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A stoic stands at contemplation’s crossroads
winnowing the weeds of will
delving into the divine divisions
of fate’s frolicsome vicissitudes.
The face of a stony simpleton
suffocating on a stifled smile’s
guarded grimace
pandering to pleasure’s pain.


©3/29/2018

submitted to – Alliteration poem – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Silent One...

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