Short Griped Poems

A pain of word
A read of eyes
Face griped...

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I just want one drop of ale the gnome told his brother.
I can try to turn on the spigot if you want, said the other.
But the two of them together could not get the faucet to open.
They laid around and griped about it for hours, not good at cope’n....

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Katana sheathed 

head high

adrenalin pumped 

step with steps of air

creep upon the unaware

stride up behind

slide silently out the sword

fingers griped into hair

blade of steel hard and cold

one quick flex and blood is shed 

now my enemy is dead...

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That kind of thing really griped his soul
                           Meenie ate cookies smuggled from my bowl
                                         Sullivan sighed a little
                                       He was so sick and brittle
                            Whittled himself down to size with a howl...

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Boiled in international broth
soiled by an internal sloth
emphasizing the epiphany
gorged by an internal gluttony
salivating a want to succeed
griped by an internal greed
creative moments of clarity
enveloped by an internal envy
triumph built on trust
lynched by an internal lust
paved to form a new path
wasted by an internal wrath
collective thoughts collide
pilloried by an internal pride...

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The Heist of the Kidney Beans

By Elton Camp

In Pascagoula, Mississippi a burglar did grab
Several times from the drug store some Lortab
The Fred’s store manager very angrily griped
Although Lortab was the only thing he swiped 

The pharmacist decided he would make a decoy
So a funny trick was what he decided to employ
Thief came but the pharmacist wanted to throttle
He found only kidney beans in the Lorbab bottle

(Note:  true story)...

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Time takes its root griped to the soul,
Fighting shrugging off its hold,
Losing control unleashed to structure 
a deepening hole in the pit of your soul,
Grabbing struggling to regain the control,
That once you imagined to hold,


Fading away, your heart will not stay,
Growing cold to all that they say,
Delusions of reality filled lies,
Trying to find where the lack began,
Where you truly stand,
Lost is time when there's truly nothing to find,
Rise or fall, that is all...

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