Short Ill Tempered Poems

cranky
hanky


11/11/23...

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Creating 
nothing
it doesn’t
seek
to destroy

Apathetic
ill tempered
and by 
seasons
— employed

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)
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adverse winds chime wild
tides current ebbs, breathes its curse~
ill-tempered young child
exaltation moving force 
manifesting chronic course


6/1/2019...

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    There’s this talented parrot named Jaster 
    Who imitates his ill-tempered master ~
      The master goes ballistic
      Over Jaster’s stylistics ~
    Jaster echoes him better and faster
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Oh, to be good
  at something I hate

Oh, to be bad
  at something I love

To lose what I love
  to gain what I hate

Ill tempered indifference
  —lost grace from above

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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A
baby
delights me.
Puppies, kitties,
all things young and innocent make me smile.

Ill tempered, cursing people turn me off, 
also rude folks 
and crude folks
make me
frown.

By: Joyce Johnson

For Michael's contest "Smiles and Frowns."...

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Light and airy summer breezes
Make short shrift of springtime sneezes,
Warm and thoughtful gentle squeezes
Undo ill-tempered moody freezes,
A welcomed smile much tension eases
If we would always do what pleases. 

Written May 27, 2022...

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Armadillo


Armor placed upon a knighted
Rat, defender of the gold, not the
Man whose crown adorns it.
Addled pretender to the throne,
Dunce, in hidden jesters robe
Ill bred, ill tempered, 
Lothario, pompous preening,
Lecherous serpent seeking
Only the safety of self.


For PD’s contest
Acrostic Time #1
7/3/2014...

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Unrest is the tempestous,
world seems out of favor...
malignant beseem the superflous,
sour,ill-tempered neighbors...
But...
The grass is always greener,
at your side of our choosing...
you've made me a believer,
love's hallmark unites fusing...
You are,
The soft to my hard
a sheath for my sword,
like whisperings of a bard
you are the calm to my storm.......

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After bearing considerable difficulties, even foregoing great hopes, imagination justified 
kissing laughter. Merriment nicely overcame poverty, quenching ravenous sorrow, 
torment.  Ultimate vision:  wholesome xanthippe zappy.   

© November 14, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen

Reference: http://phrontistery.info/x.html  xanthippe 	ill-tempered woman
                     http://phrontistery.info/z.html  zappy 	lively; entertaining...

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Listen to this naysayer, 
Where thee never meets his course, 
Deny deny deny, 
Nein nein nein as the Germans say, 
His heart is hard like a stone, 
He battles with his own emotions,
That lead his head topsy-turvy, 
He's ill tempered, 
Loathsome bipolar they call him, 
Mixture of poisons stifle his heart, 
Where no words venture in that dark cavern cold, 
Love never thrives in it, 
This malady is left untreated,
Till the day he carries it to his grave....

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My works need not be successful
Just when consciousness-centered
Success can be spiritual
Mundane and ill-tempered
If the living Holy Spirit of the 
Absolute in me abide
My thoughts, words and actions 
Will, indeed, be love-linked
Linked will be my neighbor with me
Each creature of the universe I see
As part of the consciousness fulcrum
And cosmos would flow in free rhythm...


12 March 2022
Consciousness Fulcrum Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker...

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There Once Was a Duck

there once was a duck who lived on a farm
ill-tempered, attacked folk, did them harm.
victims shouted, "please duck no"!
"stop it now or in the pot, you'll go".
there once was a duck, the point of this yarn.
       

Picture 1
01/10/18
There is a Brighter Side - Poetry Contest sponsored by Eve Roper

A 3rd place.

there once was a duck, (is)* the point of this yarn.

* An oversight, :( Could been higher placed had it not been for the 'is', ;-)...

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