Short Petulant Poems

You always wanted me to be
That girl I always refused to be....

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Roses mock the thorns
A petulant temptation 
Bleeding red on red


John G. Lawless
6/5/2020...

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Cheeks: apple skin shined
Hair: flaxen golden threaded
Lips: petulant pout
Eyes: dark sea currents whetted
Date: Circa 1903....

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you’re always crawling
with a fixed petulant pout
go back to mummy!

Inspired by the youtube clip of Divine

4/6/18...

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BURIAL OF DEVOTION

petulant his eyes
devotion to dear mother
forever in love

infatuation flickers
blue-diamond eyes slay him

7/10/2018...

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Petulant couple
Night comes with beautiful moon
Next dawn blooms flowers

Pretty wild flowers
Lives virgin beyond all touch
Success or failure


-12/01/2020 Chattogram...

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A garrulous, loquacious, querulous person can be extremely jejune and petulant.
 
In other words,

They are usually wordy, talkative, cranky-whining and often dull or ill-humored people....

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We splash our thoughts
on invisible walls,
or scratch them in quicksand
and say,

‘look
see what time and 
a certain fretfulness
has made me do!’

It is petulant,
It is childish,
sometimes it is poetry....

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splashing thoughts
on moving water
etching words onto quicksand

we declare

look

see what time and
a certain fretfulness
has made us do

it is petulant


it is childish


sometimes it is poetry


...

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Feel
the depth
of midnight,
seek not its dark
nor petulant hush,
without my soul,
my heart is
ice cold,
numb.


04/24/2017

Broken Wing's
Form N - Ninette or Nonet - Poetry Contest 
Numb...

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love weaves a web
of light death 
n grey
breaks a petulant
heart of
tears pain
n hope
makes a drunk of
wine passion
n lust
saves a sinner of
flesh eyes n
soul
believe love weaves a web
embrace n climax
in the garden
of love...

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Three in the morning and again I dream
of waves and windblown sails, driving us on.
A petulant ocean, its mood would seem 
somehow to echo mine, awaiting dawn.
Tossing and turning, creaking and groaning,
it’s an old man’s bones I hear, bemoaning....

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Three in the morning, and again I dream
Of waves and windblown sails, driving us on.
A petulant ocean, its mood would seem 
Somehow to echo mine, awaiting dawn.
Tossing and turning, creaking and groaning,
It's an old man's bones I hear, bemoaning....

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Petulant
Limerick
Written: by Miracle Man
7/7/2018 

I once knew a man, who was cranky and petulant,
But not once was it said that he was malevolent.
His emotions did rise,
Like heat to the skies,
It was whispered by others he wasn’t benevolent;...

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Panic On Titanic in the Atlantic

There was a profound petulant panic,
That did exist on tremendous Titanic,
With much fear,
They found here,
In Atlantic seeming scary and satanic.

James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran
RiverSea Plantation
Bolivia, NC...

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In a fragile state of mind
Where realities and fantasies blind
In line where which patience is drawn
Lies a heart that has seen dawn

Below surface in a moment of weakness
Turned shrewed cold as that of a lioness
Arisen again with petulant eyes
In a time of brilliant rays of ties...

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Tempers trashing,
ideas clashing,
families fuming,
kinship cooling.

Camaraderie collapsing,
communication lapsing,
schisms scission,
harmony ebbs away,


Fuddy-duddy , so unreal
is the petulant cry;
ungrateful child,the sighing reply,
then stances coagulate and congeal.

Familiar familial !...

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Western wars brought to foreign fields
Bullet barrages blocked by grim guillotines
Petulant petrol fans the flickering flames
Courageous captains solder soldiers together
Teething tigers ripped from mad mothers to 
Carry demented decisions from bribed bullies
All hail the casket caravans of yesterday's youth...

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All the sounds ever uttered
arise from that one first
petulant cradle song
of 'why'?
A 'why'
reprised and voiced 
with infinite variations.

‘Mysterious ways’ test us constantly.

She however rewards 
both the hearing the
and the deaf,
by dancing with their hands

answering every movement
with Her own
inquiring fingers....

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All the words ever uttered
arise from that one first
petulant cradle song
of 'why'?
A question
reprised and voiced
with infinite variations.

Mysterious ways test us constantly.

A mystery writer
rewards both the hearing the
and the deaf.
That One
provides every insight.

In truth, the book of life
remains unreadable
unless we write it....

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I have seen this before
A fledgling spark stifled
At birth

I have been here before
When mused words trifled
With no worth

When my knees gingerly fell to the floor
Softly they begged and shuffled
At the slamming door

And I sought the windy south
But the spark waxed weak and worn
Two lovers stood lorn

A spurned poet, and a petulant muse...

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like a spoiled, petulant child
I'll wail whenever I want!
'cause I ain't got the stuff
so many others seem to flaunt

no Mercedes, plasma screens
big bank accounts, and more
no $2000 suits, alligator shoes,
that's one thing I never wore

so I suppose I'd be better off
if my vision was not so good
then I'd never really notice
the rich ones in my "hood"...

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There are no words
Only emotions
Raw and unrelenting
A petulant obsession
Blanching sight
My hands
Tools of asphyxiation
Choking prudence
Squeezing pulsating pens
Bound to a mute mistress
Who can read my mind
Like a blank piece of paper
Do I bed my muse
Or lie to my mother
Who held my trembling hand
When fear stole her slumber
And unspoken words
Her son...

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Silhouette of a sassy
Little sex pot
Trembling in midnight air
By her big white picture windowsill
Captured by a muse she feeds in her mind
Loved by homegrown worshippers
She never really has to leave
Bitter is as bitter does
And what has been seen are her bitter,
Reddened lips
And her fake silk-lined soul
All crazy nail biting 
Vengeance and delusion
Oh the petulant crone!...

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The bishop
sent him on his way
with one more blessing
that he may
be filled with fullness
by a deity
he could not see;
poor fumbling soul,
lost in the dark
and petulant, he whined,
when down the path
with flashing spirit in his mind
there came a lesser god,
indeed the very one that he
had just  squeezed down to size--
 
and then
thus blinded,  passed it by.
                 ~...

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