Short Reprimands Poems

“Not down any drain!”
livid chef reprimands sous
fatberg prevention...

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Friends stand at the helm

The tender smile reprimands

Betrayal at hand...

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Mighty is the mind that understands
Strong
 in due time 
Strong is the hand ,
Mighty that reprimands
Strong so that unbinds
Benevolence


5/13/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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His talks seemingly obsolete

His obstinacy tenacious and noisy

He rebukes, he chides, he reprimands

His acts like a performer's repertoire

His renunciations to be jeered upon

He renounces, he chucks in, he relinquishes

It is the monologue man...

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All you bottom dwellers
Come up from the sellers 
~
And rise above the plain
Come up from above it
~
The shames
The pains
Those reprimands
Make them distance
~
Don't remain
Below sustain
~
Come up and walk
 be strong and talk
 rise up above it  ...

4/7/20
Written words  James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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Short Fuse

It’s not the way it works
when I go down
I go down hard
it hurts to hit the bottom
it reprimands me

I hear your voice
but 
can hardly 
make a choice

so please burn the poems
if they injure you

don’t be swept away
by fire that seared me
when I was young
wrecking golden days
driving me to write
in the
heat of 
the 
moment


© Kim van Breda—20 December 2014...

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Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood—
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Colonel Klinks, defend the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.

The best book of the age sold two,
or three, or four (but not to you),
strange copies of the ones before,
misreadings that delight the board.
They sit and clap; their revenues
fall trillions short of Mother Goose....

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Put your faith in The Faithful
That you may expect Truth from the Truthful
For among men are resilient respondents
Who may crumble into dependent despondents
In the glare of weighty demands
Impatience and unforgiving reprimands

Only God can fully satisfy man
For his needs and appetites are greater than
Any man's positive attitude
Or all of men's collective fortitude
For we all need our heads supernaturally raised
And our steps immaculately paced...

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What joy to watch a tennis match 
Despite the empty stands.
At least the umpire needn’t give
His “Quiet!” reprimands.

Today I watched the Open (French),
A famous match on clay.
The action kept me riveted
A good chunk of the day.

My favorite player did his part
To glue me to the screen
And won the title, making shots
Both powerful and clean.

Though life for some is normal now,
For me it’s still on hold
So show some tennis on TV
And surely, I’ll be sold....

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