Short Gripes Poems

forgive forget
grudges will hurt us
do you have any gripes?...

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employer spouts hypes
disgruntling workplace gripes…
disinfectant wipes...

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The hall of gigolo fame
Lauds men of certain acclaim.
“I’ll never get in,”
Gripes Hal with chagrin:
“I pay when out with a dame.”...

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Alan Aldrich was a sports reporter
some declared he was a news distorter.
He denied their gripes
and said by all rights
He was just an athletic supporter....

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When it's not right the clerk gripes
But now cards have chips and mag stripes
To swype or insert
If done wrong it can hurt
Like partners who don't know their pipes...

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Mrs. Marks made wurst in the burg of Kover
The smell made folks complain ever bolder.
Their gripes grew so great
She left town one eve late.
Now they rejoice because the wurst is over....

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oh last night 
the bed 
playful wicked 

howls around 
inspirational thought
in hostage ground

rising; rising to the sound 
the pyre gripes to re-fall crown


-June 25, 2019 Chattogram...

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don't hang with those who complain,
for their discontented stain
will blot your soul.

endless gripes can cause a frown
and make you feel very down,
with no control.


Dr. Ram's tail-rhyme contest...

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Gun Violence A National Disgrace

Gun violence has become a national disgrace; 
It could be here, there and all over the place,
Plant seed,
To impede,
And we must come to gripes with and will face.

Jim Horn...

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uncle sammy loaned 
himself some money 
to give to auntie nati's 
newest honey 
so uncle jerry  
would do the very same 
with mister rus to blame
for blowing pipes
but no one gripes
for honey a proxy
makes us all seem foxy...

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Plain pain
Still stains


Glimpse gain
Prize pain


Sweet sour
Heap hours


Grief grips
Taut trips


Rich rest
Blooms best


Gall gripes
Wet wipes


Drip dear
Trite tears


Meet more
Sad spores




Leon Enriquez
23 December 2017
Singapore...

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Brambles surround Scotty's bagpipes
  Briars sharp, of severest types
    He thought that he could
    Play tunes in a wood
  Instead of music ~ out came gripes



      A tip of the hat to Jeff Kyser,
      whose poem 'Penny Whistle'
      inspired this Limerick. :) gw...

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Faith- 
Feared child of stamina! 

Emotion-
immaturity of thinking!

Brain- 
sometimes gripes the tail of emotion and faith
sometimes walks with a brave heart

o' yes
If the veins of all
leads to the welfare, prosperity 
for every age,
for everyone
then it becomes-
good faith, good emotion, good brain


-March 14, 2019 Chattogram...

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Calm choice
Vet voice


Cheer comes
Sweet sums


Wise way
Prime play


Please poise
Nude noise


Grey ghost
Mull most


Death dooms
Gripes groom


Treat taste
Hone haste


Sit still 
Wise will


Day dream
Sound streams


True toss
Big boss


New notes
Vest vote




Leon Enriquez
07 February 2017
Singapore...

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Do you notice
Sense and motive?


Do you embrace
Allure and space?


Do you become
A zero sum?


Do you realise
Empty vain prize?


Do you enjoy
Such futile ploys?


Do you confront
Such worthless grunts?


Do you ignore
Trivia galore?


Do you subscribe
To groans and gripes?




Leon Enriquez
02 November 2019
Singapore...

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Some birdies really...

Can be so unkind

All day pecking 

Only gripes and whines

It's not hot enough 

So she ups and flies

Down to Miami beach via South Carolina skies

She probably thinks... Oh Lord 

I’m a Dodo bird 

Maybe it's a secret lover, tell me, have you heard

Whoever it is...don't say 

I don't bother mind 

Blue Jay’s staying over and it’s tweeting time...

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Why would a Lord's servant miserably die,
And his wife and children are left embroiled in lack?

Why would a toiler a beautiful mansion buy,
But a gun bearing loafer ambushes his head?

As I continue my gripes with life
Another question comes up:
Why should the industrious laborer seek heaven's favor
But all this he does in vain?

Why and why I ask
Until I discover that life is an empty husk!...

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bitchy

In the morning now
there is a rage
at waking, 
carrying this pain,
from dreams of fleet 
footed joy.

I won’t speak until
tea is poured into
my mumbling soul.
Everything is 
dusted with a fine 
layer of gripes.  I polish 
with my housecoat sleeve.

It is the kettles fault
this itchy feeling of 
discontent which rides
me.  Yes, today it is 
the kettles fault 
for being too slow....

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Touch troubles tribe
Grasp growing gripes
Risk rumbles ripe


Night nurtures norm
Sense spreading storm
Feel fragile form


Seek sparkling sight
Frame funny flight
Lift laughter light


Glimpse gracious gift
Set success swift
Dance dreamy drift


Browse better books
Live lovely looks
Hedge healthy hooks


Zealous zest zooms
Blessings bring blooms
Rich rapture rooms




Leon Enriquez
13 June 2017
Singapore...

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Status quo here
Seemingly ignores
Hidden agendas


Meaning hides 
In cryptic word
Sly camouflage


Hurl of mad swirl
In a crazy world
Crushed by conceit


Fling of sad lines
Vision usurped
By vain notions


Hypocritical
This notion that change
Qualifies now


To make a clear break
Die to resistance 
Be dead to old habits


Sanguine moments
Await old gripes
Change wears a mask




Leon Enriquez
26 September 2014
Singapore...

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the second Pat walks into the room
I sense the cloud that is over her head
It is gray, gloomy, full of grouse and gripes

She does not have to open her mouth
for me to recognize it is there
a storm ready to burst open

flooding the room with negativity
trying to flush away all laughter and mirth
I run from the room the second I see her

My feelers on “ready alert”
flight or fight popping in and out of my brain
I know Pat, I used to live with her....

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Ask ample art
Seek subtle start


Prime precious play
Craft crazy clay


Meet mindset mood
Glimpse glorious good


Frame funny feel
Wise wit works will


Hurl hurry here
Dig deeper dear


Mind makes much more
Gripes gaining gore


Glimpse gracious gate
Feel final fate


Just joy journeys
Fun floats fuzzy


Pick pleasant poise
Cheer clever choice


Fun frames funny
Spread sounds sunny




Leon Enriquez
27 September 2016
Singapore...

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this man tries hard
      with word to weave
         his loves clear worn
   plain ‘pon his sleeve

      not meant as gripes
         midst rationed fears
      but more shall quell
   those metered tears

         his pen thus bleeds
   for loves quite lost
one heart born bare
      for scheming’s cost

   still oft’ he dreams
now chances slim
      someone will write
         sweet poems …

for him.







Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, June 12, 2023...

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