Short Grovel Poems

If they asked me I could write a novel
Bout the way you snivel and grovel
How your snot hangs down
On your evening gown
As melodies emanate from your schnozzle...

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we confidently march along
until something unexpected happens
an event out of our control
then we begin to grovel and beg
wishing and praying for patience
in Gods’ waiting room...

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Ahab puppy loved him some evil Jezebel
Lassie boy collar eyes wag the fancy tale
He sleep on her good side,
sob say the cuckold bride
Groomed so wail to fetch her bones in hell...

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Ghastly Grave Gathering 

Gran and grandpa are gone
Giving grandchildren gifts
Generations greedy
Guilty, grabbing for gain
Granted gratis gold goods
Girls grovel gracelessly
Gluttonous grandkids grief 

November 2016...

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Chance favours, chance taunts,
Now is one man’s hour to rise,
But ten men’s dreams it haunts,
Its humor none can surmise. 

Heed not the next irony of fate, 
Till you and final verdict meet. 
I’d sooner wake to destiny late,
Than grovel at Fortune’s feet....

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You are vanity 
No one can compare to you 
Men grovel and sway 
Women want to be like you 
Sad, the mirror is one way 

If it were two way 
you might know how you are seen 
from the other side 
Yours shows not your inner self 
that your outer mask does hide...

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First world culture, Fourth Generation Rights
Travel and you must adjust: to avoid fights
And delays in "customer care," we declare:
"Sorry to bother you; I need my wages." Beware:
The first world mentality: "Do not grovel." We all do -
Some are commonplace, others disguise as culture...

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Shake out the trembles that restrain you
Walk upright in a downward glanced world

Shake the hand that refuses you

Smile at the demons that control you
Relive the moments that embarrass you 

Grovel in the sand that grates you
Reach out to enemies that flog you

Live

            Live


01/16/12
© All Rights Reserved...

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I
From ever Time had us surrounded
-or how the Law has to be followed?-
Though since once acting were we free
To keep our haze, to not or be.

II
To earthly being nothin’ is mere more
Than everything surmise as novel:
For being nothin’ grimer sore,
Hallowing heaven, yet to grovel .

And what is hard comparing
To answer this ironic faring?...

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Vaccine game we are not winning
The COVID-19 vaccines
A mess in kansas

I follow all leads
Begging groveling pleading
No roads lead to shots

Hours on the phone
Waiting lists of twelve hundred
I reluctantly give up

God has His own plan
I grovel big one more time
Got vaccine today

Perpetually learn
Let go let God again
Relearn it always...

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Visions of Usher,
Seven rooms with which flesh dwells
As reddened as a

Retro rocket ship.
Party to end all parting,
Macabre essence 

Is all prevailing. 
The mayhem of ring-a-rose
Maddened stares. I sit
 
Alone in green sin 
When Death travels amongst us,
All that can be done

Is find the culprit
And grovel to the void face 
Of my own doing....

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Please tell me now, my dear, my love, what occupies your mind?
Are you truly happy now or is there sadness yet to find?

I do my best to make you smile and hope you’ll feel complete.
So, tell me now, my darling one, as I wait now at your feet.

I will not beg, nor ever grovel, but happily serve you well.
So, are you happy, lovely one? Please tell me now, do tell....

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Avenged adult world
Fishy funny kids’ play world
The saturnine feast.

Sorcerous* Nox night
Lone places yawn hell pervades
global fun-disease

Ghosts grovel and then wolves weep
Goblins grin skeletons sway
Thus the streets savaged

              *********

* Roman goddess of night

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Date: 28th Sept'13
Dr. Ram Mehta
Contest: Everything Halloween by Russell Sivey...

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Adrift in your eyes
     The night is deep
I search raven skies
     I cannot speak

What is this embrace
     Held to your darkness
I touch your face
     I feel the starkness

The powers that be
     This mysterious night
Have come unto me
     Your rule they indict

I am left to grovel
     Desire unyielding
A lecherous hovel
     A whim to your wielding

8/4/17...

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She listened to him grovel, 
realizing he deserved no mercy 
she recognized him from another time
the court was watching
so she pretended to be considering his plea
all the time plotting a slow unnatural painful death
for this conniver, fraud, and freakish abuser of women
Glad to be the power of the throne now,
holding herself back from instantly cutting off his head
for she wanted him to have a very slow demise....

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SORRY 
(ETCETERA ETCETERA)

In my world a word of genuine emotion,
today in this battlefield for far right, 
far left and all those in between,
a word reconstructed, 
for those wrong doers caught, 
and only when they are,
a buzz word for a last chance grovel, 
for a population conditioned to except the insincerity
and false tears that evaporate as quickly,
as one’s memory of their misdemeanour.

 © Harry J Horsman 2022...

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beings of the grind
grind through
catastrophic time
[[[!*&$%!!!!!!!!!!!%$&*!]]]

beings of the grind
groan in
cacophonous slime
#@!////////???????\\\\\\\\!@#

beings of the grind
grovel in
contorted grime
|?$#!-!#$?|

beings of the grind
gallop into
convoluted crime
|?$#!-!#$?|

&
kick
contentious cans
down the road
of raging
rabbit holes
(((??::::::::::::::::??)))
...

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The early people hurt me,
So I'm very bitter...
As I sit upon my stolen jewels;
Than resemble shiny litter!

My anger has me terrorizing'
Countries of various hues.
Complimented by my distinguished
Set of scales of sky-blown blue!

I'm not like the other dragons,
As I don't seek for glory or fame.
I travel very quietly,
With a secret name.

To truly know me, no need to grovel,
Just go to the store and buy my novel!

15-September-2021...

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Masquerading as a Prince
Someone is playing a game of pretend or deceiving themselves
If you saw what I saw you would be humble
Bite your tongue, and grovel for you are dirt at my feet.

Your boastful brags intrigue me
What makes the toad demand things of others?
She wonders to her herself
Why she entertains his commands

No beauty on the inside or out
No winner here
No heart of gold
Just a space full of emptiness in this cold, cold room....

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Wipe each surface, wear a mask;
Wash and scrub your hands.
Share this information so
Each person understands.

Don’t touch money or your face;
Stay away from crowds.
If you’re quarantined, pretend
Your ceiling’s sky and clouds.

Cancel all your travel plans;
Stock up on your food.
Find some entertainment 
To keep busy all your brood.

Welcome to our Virus World
Where COVID-19 rules 
And humans bow and grovel
To the reign of molecules....

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Faithless mallet
O' governing gavel
See me upon my knees
Prepared to grovel

For it was peace I sought
But chaos I wrought
In a fit of rage
I burned the page

Faithless mallet
O' governing gavel
How I've done it now
The world now weeps
But my end it will know

For salvation I need
For it I shall surely bleed
I shunned my faith
Now I face the wraith

Faithless mallet
O' governing gavel
I believe not in you
Nor this faithless justice...

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I tarried for a moment...
I was tender to the sun.
Not sure I would be welcome...
I lay burdened by the one.

My loss of Faith was tragic...
Life's filter gone awry.
It seems of some importance
As I face towards the sky.

Who am I to grovel
For a life that's gone askew?
But one who stands exulted
And in Faith begins anew.

I fear not the nonexistence
Some associate with death.
The Grace of God awaits me
As I take my final breath.

           The End...

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Nineteen years of age, lost amid drugs ? Going nowhere except towards an asylum...
Soon his beautiful child, torn to be tattered ? Like time ripped apart; such abandonment
As downcast eyes left emptied by a world, this place, bent upon sorrows; thus rent these walls 
Their rogues' gallery her Requiem ? Ghost in a machine, pulling thornes from our eyes; tapeworms
Parasites be this bubonic plague; his parody betwixt burlesque as goblins; hallucinating, of grovel ? Screaming....

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Tumultuous tale told and taught throughout time
Chiding cheers and chants and church bells chime
Parishioners of pastors who've past their prime
Claims of cunning conquers and cryptic crime
Daunt deeds to deviants dying for a nickel and dime
Grieve for the gains gone-by who grovel in grime
Sent forth by a sovereign who sought sublime
Messengers now muted no more than mime
Rue the revered who suit to rewrite the rhyme 
Cast off couriers contrary to who create the crime...

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Peasant bread to feed the masses,
  millers stone between the classes

Grovel here and grovel there,
  crumbs for beggars—no meat to share

Caught inside the rising dough,
  leavened voices cry out low

Baking deep within the flames,
  bribes that lie—and Lords to blame

With each slice cut, Hell calls a name,
  its coals to brand, ignoble fame

Bread for the masses, meat off the bone,
  revenge on fire—the Devil’s throne

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)...

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