Short Meanness Poems

One’s meanness and the other’s foolishness abet
them in arranging both a marriage and a bet. 

Volodymyr Knyr
2014...

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Wisdom

God’s wisdom ablaze 
shining amidst the darkness
of sin and meanness
alleviate and gives comfort
to the lonesome and downcast...

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I wish I could rip the meanness from your spine,
Rinse and let drip the pain from your eyes.
In your heart there is one small door still open.
Says it's for me and I'm yours forever....

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There was a bully in my young childhood
Who wasn't really interested in brotherhood
Sooner fight than hug
A nasty young thug
Perhaps his meanness was because of his limp wood...

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From merchants
One law may be derived,
To warn all

Our constitution is a lie.
What they call Evolution
Is nothing more than,

An inflated fallacy
fashioned by the outlaws in us
meanness is constant....

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listening with his hero heart
bird man waits his opportunity
understanding the beauty of timing
not caring about credit, but eager to save the day
because he loves people and he despises unjust meanness....

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You are a pure authentic human
Thats what I love about you
You just say it how it is
Salt of the earth through and through

No airs and graces
No meanness in your soul 
A genuinely kind being
Happy and whole...

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I began shutting down
hard and fast 
the minute you tore my soul out 
with your meanness
you were as vicious as any viper
it amused me that you thought I would care that you left
 after experiencing these words...

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A pure of heart authentic human
That is what I love about you
You speak with sincerity and honesty
Salt of the earth through and through

No airs and graces
No meanness in your soul 
A genuine kind and loving being
Happy and whole!
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a crabby courtesan does not do well
when her meanness is seen by clientele
the one I knew named angry night crawler Nell
was so grouchy, she was a very hard sell
the Madame found her a new place to dwell
No one knows what happened to nasty old Nell...

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I am a woman of God but....
She starts every sentence this way
I know there's a zinger of meanness
and it's coming my way;
She does this every time, each and every damned day. 
Hate to tell Woman of God but women of God
Usually do not have to say....

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Grief hits me in waves, at unexpected times, knocking me into a wall.
Throwing me down stairs, kicking me into a ditch where I land on broken glass.
It rises up like a snake, biting me, or a bumble bee stinging me with meanness.
I am helpless and an orphan....

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And now she looks guarded, watched.
Why do we want to make love to complete strangers?
She's gone now. Forever.
There is the constant beg
For intimacy that grinds and binds us;
The end to all our means.
Even our meanness. When it pops out
Is a call for love....

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a plethora of feelings saturated my soul
delicacy is not usually my style
But the magic elixir has not been invented yet
that would help me tolerate meanness
A silhouette of emotions causes all of my sadness to congregate
Tranquility is those who are not empathic I guess...

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Old sour dour turnip man
He ruins as many parties as he can
Coming in with a meanness thick
Not liking any dances, joys or tricks

We see him coming and try to lock the door
We do not want to entertain him any more.
Old sour dour turnip man
Being as irritating and grumpy as he can...

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meanness
cruel actions
human history
this being our legacy
before being submerged in our own heart-waste
what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor, Buchenwald
Dachau, Belzec, Chelmno, Warsaw, Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen?
No more war....

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She was much prettier in death
than any day she had been alive
her mouth softly closed
eyes in gentle repose

no yelling
no grouching
no griping
no complaining

I saw her husband’s genuine smile
For the first time ever
at her funeral luncheon, 
And I had lived next door to them for thirty-six years....

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teeth clenched
tension creeping
up or down my spine.. 

rage flickered
meanness flared
burning up my mind..

the apple don't fall..
far from the ugly tree..
muttered neath my breath..

damn I'm a heifer..
the anger died.. 
a swift and sudden death..

what apple he asked
what tree he dared
and I cried.....

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Trump Really Upsets Most People;
This Reality Unsettles Minority Persons.
True Republicans Unhappily Must Proceed.
The Real Upshot Means Pandemonium.
Truth Rarely Understood, Meanness Predominates.
Truthers Retreat, Ugly Men Project.
The Reactionary, Unworthy Media Protects.
Therefore Respond United, Meaning Protest!!!!...

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a thousand colours above my head
pale and flaky
am i a guest?
i asked for a full moon
my pledges unheeded
o my god what am i to be
guster of leaves
a little light filtering
they sound bland to me
cold oars shake a moment,
the spirit of blackness is in us
life is a valedictory meanness
a thousand voices peer their rectitude



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I once knew a poet named Broken Wings,
And onto comments sweet and nice, she clings;

At times, some meanness visits,
She just laughs at those critics,

Because she wins, and her poetry sings !

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February 24, 2016

Limerick

For the contest, Sensitive Commenting,
sponsor, Skat

Fifth Place...

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it wasn’t the measured meanness 
nor the pig blood
nor the rampage of Carrie’s revenge
but the quiet walk
to the graveyard
depositing flowers
remembering the saint...forgetting the maelstrom
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as the grub-filled hand erupts through the soil
to impale one more victim.
the grave has no conscience.

10/31/2019...

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do you have an abhorrence for anything?
murder, rape, child porn, sex slavery
any repugnance for anything else?
negative attitudes, bullying, meanness,
any other revulsions?
know-it-alls, vandalism, arrogance, inflexibility
hostility toward any animals?
I am not super fond of rats, snakes or mice
but I do not think I am hostile, merely fearful....

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So much anguish
So many tears
For no good reason

We look her way
Knowing she is the cause of it
Wishing she could be different


She chooses her own meanness
Slathering it on like honey butter
Rolling in the aftermath

Sadly, uncaring about what she is doing
Many do not understand it is not something they have done.
It is her unique way....

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Three days of brutal angry pain has changed her
Eighty-two hours of pain
She is joyless now
Irritation and meanness, 
Gritting of the teeth
Feeling mean, everything hurts

She just got a Charley Horse in her leg
Old age is killing her
She is angry with her body today
The one that is failing her
Letting her down in so many directions
Pain has changed her completely...

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