Short Politeness Poems

smiling young woman
opens wide the old man's door
politeness can hurt...

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The air engulfed by unspoken politeness
Now-balanced indifference--
and reconciliation softly touched the soul...

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I’ll apologise here at the start
For this verse won’t appeal to your heart.
So banal, it’s a shame
But I’ll shoulder the blame
’Cos it's not rude, nor funny, nor smart!...

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Us Canadians are known for our politeness
But we certainly don't suffer from up tightness
We grin at a glance
Wearing no pants
Happens often and never accused of shyness...

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Us Canadians are known for our politeness
But we certainly don't suffer from uptightness
We grin at a glance
Wearing no pants
Happens often, we're never accused of shyness...

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Us Canadians are known for our politeness
But we certainly don't suffer from up tightness
We grin at a glance
Wearing no pants
Happens often, we're never accused of shyness...

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Us Canadians are known for our politeness
But we certainly don't suffer from up tightness
We grin at a glance
Wearing no pants
Happens often, we're never accused of shyness...

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My great dentist Sir Richard D. McFly
Naughtily asks but I cannot reply.
Open mouth ugh-propped.
Politeness has stopped.
Quizzing away with my lips in a Y.

Written 1-9-2019         Contest: Limerick II   Sponsor: Joseph May...

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I forgive
I forgive your arrogance
Matched by your ignorance
Interrogated by malevolence
I took you condescension
Your hidden intentions
Your lying invention
Politeness deterred prevention
I’m glad there was no extension


David Cox 31/03/24
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She has everything you don't.
(we never had what they have)

Sleep is more important than me?
(it's 1 am & you're not my lover)

Why ask if you weren't interested?
(my father was missing & politeness)

I'm tired of trying. 
(interesting role reversal)...

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THIS IS OUR ECHO
SAVAGE TONGUE
EYES BLURRY
TWINGED HEART
THE CIRCLE GAME
SILENCE LEAVES A SPACE
WITHIN US
THE UNKNOWING
WORDS FLOATING
FOGGING FEELINGS
WE REFER TO POLITENESS
KEEPING APPEARNCES
YET WE ARE A WHIRLWHIND
SWELTERING INSIDE.

FOR B, 2003...

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TRANSFIGURED
universal
  gaiety
innovated
sedate
&steady

politeness
   populated
by
intelligence
in abstract
designed
in
painted light

transparent
  imaginations
blended
delicately
exquisitely
tenderly
arranged
in
highly
wrought
  sensibility...

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Polite to me and tall in gesture fair, 
Offering openness to my raw feelings, 
Leaving nothing behind but a lectern, 
Insisting on my viewpoint and reeling; 
Tough on that, and unable to retract, 
Energy for my memories so compact....

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Learn how to talk to different people, such as:
Mechanics who claim to fix your car and your problems,
Nymphomaniacs who can be kept eeeeeeasily aroused in what you say, and
Ostentorians who will help you be a good listener while standing decibels away.
Politeness and tact with all are the keys....

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Felt like a quest without a treasure, 
Talking in turns without pleasure, 
Wanted you to burn my soul, 
With passion and intention,
Quite the fairytale of adventure. 
The politeness of your nature, 
Tormented my soul for leisure, 
Though I wanted the danger. 
Cliffhangers and excitements. 

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Heaped in the same organic embryo 
Forget the last ditch effort
To choose beyond the pail
Trading thin-ice thoughts
For a politeness to perpetuate 
The flimsy manner of excuse and apology

Your relationship to One
Like the poise of a rising Sun
That same energy to give or take 
Stacking collapsibles or elbowing for some space...

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Whether real hard or pretended to be so 
Any heart can be pierced  by one's politeness 
Without archery skill and arrow and bow 
Whether real hard or pretended to be so 
Affects positively, works slow although 
Wins at last in materialistic race 
Whether real hard or pretended to be so 
Any heart can be pierced  by one's politeness...

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Verses 
 
Should I have lived a life
Without upsetting anyone 
I’ll sulk in my grave 

Should I have lived a life
Without the madness of love 
Bewails will rot my coffin 

 Should I have lived a life
Of politeness and good manners 
Howling wind my voice 

Should I have lived a life
Not seen the beauty of a snowdrop
Black soil and blindness...

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First bursts of brightness
Is not at all politeness

Trying to catch more z's
The light buzzes like bees

The louder the brightness beats
The quieter the nap fleets

Forced to make a move
My body will surely disapprove

But up, up, and away I must go
What the day brings whose to know

Journeying towards the early day I face
Morning blues cease with each new pace...

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Crumbling crinkly, cracker crumbs

into salty, seafood stew,

Mother made our midday meal.

Fast for favorite food we flew.



Gluttony Glenda gulped a glass

of Linda's lovely, lemon tea.

While Will wolfed down whole walnut meats,

carefully crunching kernels free.



"Savages", sister Susan said.

"Politeness, please," our papa pled.



7/4/14



For Dr. Mehta's contest...

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A-ccording to proper behavior, 
R-ight conduct and manner blend; 
M-isfit turns into integrity, 
I-ndecorous act and deed 
E-nd. 

P-roper behavior is observed, 
I-n the morn of March nine; 
T-he indecent mind is corrected, 
U-ntil it becomes fine. 
L-et politeness dwell in the heart, 
A-llow it to evade the error; 
R-espect is not far away from nice and proper behavior....

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I heard a gentle voice within
Its politeness stood apart,
It urged me that I listen close
To the pleadings of my heart.

The din around had long stifled
What my fate had in its store,
But the voice inside knew it all
And it knew so ever more.

I chose the wisdom of this world
But ignored the Zen within,
Spent endless years to know this truth
Oh what a grievous sin!
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I heard a gentle voice within
Its politeness stood apart, 
It urged me that I listen close
To the pleadings of my heart.

The din around had long stifled
What my fate had in its store, 
But the voice inside knew it all
And it knew so ever more.

I chose the wisdom of this world
But ignored the Zen within, 
Spent endless years to know this truth
Oh what a grievous sin! 
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Am I out of sync, am I somewhat behind,
Feeling puzzled when jokes, I can't find.
Did I do wrong in following my parents' advice,
In discipline and politeness, did I pay the price?
I wonder if I'm not in tune with the times,
Or if my upbringing's made me miss life's chimes.
But maybe in my values, there's something I've gained,
In a changing world, my roots remain unchained.
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MANY times more than twice have I seen 
the ghosts of family, friends and then
some whose faces that I did not know.

Quaintly, with ethereal elegance they are
silky touch, feathered-breath and opal eye'd
outside of the tick-tock of Father Time.

It is most inappropriate to ask of them
to state their business or intended pleasure
;extend your politeness over scorn I say

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