Short Reprimand Poems

Our last stand
Last chance
For a reprimand
Yet none came
Good for there’s not
Anyone to blame...

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I buried my memory
in yesterday’s sand

To live in the past
—beyond reprimand

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)...

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experiment failed
                            the aliens have landed
                                reprimand is due
       





18/08/21...

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Changing the future—changing the past,
a north south reprimand


Each word rewritten—time bespoke,
the present close at hand

(Dreamsleep: November, 2020)...

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love's crude and aching curse ~
longing for the heart that can't be yours…

love’s righteous reprimand ~ 
letting the lifetime roll with the wrong hand… 


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If we walked 
Hand in hand 
Till the edge 
Of the earth 
Without reprimand 
Would you jump 
If I said 
It'd be all right 
Or would you 
Sprout wings 
Given to flight...

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Listen to poem:

Still, chimney birds emerge,
cobweb-coated, darkly blithe --
to skim the sky's everted
bowls of purple porcelain
and to utter their gray-tinged
raucous cries at evening:
a reprimand, and sorrow....

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Creating an exit,
my psyche expands
all locks have been opened,
no shrill reprimand

The light has rekindled,
my way again clear
a willful expression
—new freedom endeared

(Dreamsleep: February, 2022)...

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Before you fall,
  you’ve got to stand

Your voice once stalled,
  no reprimand

The paradigm floats,
  on swamps that drain

Where praise cries out,
  false hope again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)...

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Kindness..
reprimand..
with a 
gentle hand..

Kindness..
take a stand..
when 
no one can..

Kindness..
received..
and
returned..
makes
everything
grand..

Kindness..
makes a
better man.


D.C. 03/08/16...

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Before you fall,
  you’ve got to stand

Your voice once stalled,
  fates reprimand

The paradigm floats,
  on swamps that drain

Where praise cries out
   —false hope again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)...

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The absent moon 
in a tea cup
without milk.

Lips reaching moon 
like a reprimand.
A spider’s kiss.

Unmothered story, 
contempt untitled:
Surface-tension.

The speed of 
space in motion
like winter smoke.

The sun
buried the snow
in your eyes. 



Satish Verma...

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this looming life of solitude
left listening to your woes
a dark depressing melody doth it compose
I whisper words that wander wearily
my voice escapes thine ears
solitary without sympathy
dealing in your reprimand 
my voice you hear
my meaning you do not understand...

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One, two, three words
And a silence that spoke more than them
One, two, three looks
What could I do with those?!...
Than nothing
Just a step back
Because between three words two of them were wrong
If you were to measure those words
Silence would not keep just reprimand…...

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Shan’t one discern
Between a reverie yet to conclude?
And unprecedented retribution?

Society may think it dexterous
To berate the triumph of others
And reprimand them
in exclusive and dire scrutiny

Though such a sycophant
Becomes aroused by
The fashioning of controversy
An indictment is questionable...

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In shadow, shade and angled light,
memories echo, when given time.
They persist, though out of sight,
when even bells will loose their chime.

To torture, teach or reprimand?
Why then comes, the weathered old?
The heart and soul hold scars and brands,
when even stars burn out, turn cold....

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One after another-
I fail to fast an egg for another-

one after another...

I ready reasons-
corroding all of the studded,

I claim to be beamed-
compounding my bummers,

shouting to withstand,

or reprimand my shudder,

ending in the rudder,

rotating a lover,

loading of the stowaways hover....

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'Tis grace alone that pardons me

 Despite those wishing reprimand

Thus should I offer t'other cheek

 Attend alone, the righteous hand

      With love ... and aim to understand.




~ 1st Place ~  in the "Week 1 March 2019, Any Form - Theme" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor....

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God, the voice of Scriptures’ command
     
     Moves my service* with love-demand

          Along His mercy’s prodding drive 

               For me to do my best and strive

                    Along holiness-reprimand.

*Ephesians 6:7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord…

May 30, 2019...

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Should the good be judged
for not having given enough?
Some will face humiliation or reprimand,
not by Christ Himself, but by folks who bluff!


There are many mways of giving,
it depends on willingness and feeling;
the most generous ones will give abundantly,
and those who aren't...will give little eventually....

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Only clowns had masks

And secret agents

Personae non grata 

Disallowed from disguise


Now the Stasi and Gestapo

Of all nations denunciate

Those renegade souls

Who hide their screen


Blindfolded we justify

Judge and reprimand

Cushion our conscience

In self-righteousness


28th April 2020...

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Push it right there,
it's schematic addictions dismantlement in prisms,

push it all along the way-
rotation of grapes,

push it into the grey-
for we cannot fake our face...

Slow the born band,

because we reprimand,

yet adorn the command,

push in push in and see the next best,

squeegee encounter,

and then a phat rent....

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When None Command

By surging sea and force of wind
A tattered vessel floundered in
Where coral reef performed the rest
In ripping wide her wooden breast.
From timber scream to cracking mast
Her form dismembered to the last
And on the waves her pieces reached
An aftermath of slumber, beached.
She is a silent reprimand
To those who sail
When none command....

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Who holds the sands of time and a key of life in his hand,
manipulating our strings? The one who needs a reprimand!

Masked, the ultimate jester who keeps sun and moon apart.
Selfishly, he couldn't care less if he breaks a lover's heart

I'd turn his impish smile upside down so his lips wear a frown
and expose the jackanapes for what he is... a buffoon, a clown...

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There comes the time when spring has run its course
And summer days lay heavily on the land
When eager steps have slowed to garner strength
The stream runs slowly as if in reprimand

Summer's wealth oozes like honey from a comb
Horizon stark, not a cloud to soften the sky
Evening settles round like a golden cloak
And life seems slower as summer slips on by

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