Short Maligned Poems

Much maligned are men.
So mentally mangled that
Many self murder....

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sharks much maligned, have
an identity crisis
hard to see passed Jaws...

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self
maligned
but by whom?
unestablished
this is a terrible merry go round...

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No pity, please
  for the oft-maligned onion

It single-handedly brought tears
  to the eyes of Paul Bunyan...

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Greed
the harbinger
of loves rejection

The Mirror
once cracked
—its image maligned 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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Dismiss, Distort, Defend, Reverse.
The demise of my universe.
Unheard, unfelt, alone, confined;
frustrated, angered, hurt, maligned....

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Was a young lad from Missouri
Rushing about in a flurry
- A bathroom to find
- His bowels were maligned
Oops!  Never mind.  End of story....

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how whimsy can best be defined
relates to the home of each mind
in England it's easy
but Yanks make you queasy
protesting that humor's maligned....

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Daddy was unique, one-of-kind
An understatement, a rebel mind
Down a lonely path
Dealt with the wrath
A difficult life so much maligned...

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Split rail lined
rough as the path trod
hands tracing, guiding
blind, no voice only splinters
maligned her journey,
taking her from one place
then returning....

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I once knew a poet named Luke,
His only good write was a fluke,
Though comments are kind,
His work’s still maligned,
He's the butt of his own self-rebuke....

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Archie the Ape
Was much maligned
This nice young fellow
Had a pink behind

The glare was amazing
So brightly it shined
Caused gawkers to stare
And totally go blind...

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So long
I'm
Gone
No more
Occasions,
Forsaken
Takeaways
Hidden,
Ensuring
Touch finger fail,
Intimacy scorned
Maligned,
Engagement called off
Serendipity suspended....

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There once was an eponym maligned
Whose gender was quietly confined
Now away with your fears!
Turn those tears to cheers!
As nature intends your defined!





© All Rights Reserved...

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There once was a man in the nave,
Although pious he could not behave ...
They paid him no mind,
’Caus his name was maligned,
Simply being a sinner to save


7th in Skat's limerick contest...

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Archie the Ape
Was much maligned
This nice young fellow
Had a pink behind

The glare was amazing
So brightly it shined
Caused gawkers to stare
And go totally blind


© Jack Ellison 2014...

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The minds assembled of the hard-edged kind 
Sidewalks teeming with gawkers curious, lined
up to witness a 'seance,' a freak show unprecedently cruel 
Would Helen Keller be maligned, now she's not deaf, dumb or blind...

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   Much-maligned during his Presidency
   George W. Bush still denied residency
     in the Republican Party today

   ‘Midst the mess in the Middle East
   The GOP yet withholds its charity 
     ~ from a leader of true moral clarity
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Pride, you deceitful worm,
how dare you so viciously trick a person’s mind?
Pride, you deceitful worm,
your fine physique hides a tormented core, infirm,
mutable, and harboring only thoughts maligned.
Lord, save me from the vilest villain designed,
Pride, you deceitful worm....

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Love defined

There is not much to  love, when it’s  defined
With material things it looks aligned.
Should  love at all need a prop
Which fails at times and love flops.
Making the once enshrined  the most maligned.

01/sept/12
S.Jagathsimhan Nair.
For: SKAT's Define Love contest...

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   George W. Bush, so much maligned
   for the economic collapse of 2008-09 

     Yet would that we today had his outstanding Secretaries of State
     Colin Powell or Condoleeza Rice handling the M-E would be first-rate



     ___________________________________ 
       'M-E' stands for 'Middle East'
...

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47.
Once the fine rocking artist 
Look outward for the same wavelength
And forget its name.

Was it that my hands became dry
Or I wish for the soft skin of youth
Would shine on my worn loniliness

Do my possibilities now need justification?
Because my fancy is a maligned lack of reason,
A twisted comfort to my old fixed point....

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Pardon my parlay
but I haven't invested
or infested the time to
infiltrate or be a tart

only because 
sweet tarts are much
maligned
for tempo of mandible
treatment
and cavities of the 
soul

so when the schucking of skin
begins again
I'll wish for corn syrup
splashing all over
your wheat husk

I am diabetic....

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I have nothing to offer
Except this small heart of mine. 
You come with laughter. 
I have a past much maligned. 

You come with true stories
And many talkative siblings. 
I have few good memories
But a face that's serene. 

Interesting things about the world
I remember very well. 
If it's not a bother
I will teach instead of tell....

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Folding in to convention
Sealed in creases of acceptance
Maligned and misled
By the false promises
Of a stolen heart 
We chase the white whale
Of validation
Into waters of denial…
  “Fury—the rallying cry
   of our vengeful spirit
   Hate—the jilted lover
   of our fated selves”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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