Short Scowling Poems

The competition
Between sun and scowling clouds
The rain-drenched day rises...

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Read your science books
Cafeterian Cooks
Teacher’s scowling looks 

By Robb A. Kopp...

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me
cold, angry
scowling, screaming, dying
winter demon, spring angel
smiling laughing, living
warm, happy
me...

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Reflection’s not me,
I’m more than those scowling lips;
Four eyes in glasses
with a gaze that engulfs you;
Beauty is an illusion....

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bad week for LeRoy
nothing had gone right
He wore his scowling angry face to the store
a happy "hi"
two -year-old waved at him
his heart leapt with happiness...

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A Chinese opera singer named Chow Ling
Had a voice that would set dogs to howling.
Her high C, it was said,
Could awaken the dead,
And turn Buddha from laughing to scowling.
...

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Grim Reaper strolls in
Stands looking down at her face
She opens an eye
Then sits up in bed, scowling
Grim Reaper slinks off next door




Sunrise
Jack Horne

For my friend Janie...

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   The teacher sets the tone in his classroom for the day
      Be pleasant and be friendly, students want to stay

   Walk in scowling with a frown upon your face
      Good luck, teacher ~ as students turn away
...

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Stiffly staring
from a faded
frightened far
is a sullen
silken star.
Scornfully
scattered behind
it’s skittish
skin of scolded
scowling scars.
Youthfully
yearning
for a life
contentedly
cleansed in
candlelight....

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A viper
Lethal
Fatal
Mortal
Pretending to be friendly
While nocuous
A masked personality
Full of pretence
Grinning face
But scowling and frowning
Hidden hatred
Veiled by a false smile
Indeed;
It is a friendly-traitor. 

Drencho POET Loads....

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The skimming winter day 
Becomes flushed angrily
Pushing with licentious revelry
And scowling delicately astray 

The day vanishes into the night eye
And dread ascents with a feeling scream
The night flickers in cherishing gleam
As life proceeds--a brilliant dusk settles over sky...

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Raping old friends
Far too easy
And I suffer the 
Consequences.

Without connections
And only visiting
their happiness
on the outside.

I am undeserved of
renewal I say,
and out-casted
like a good
perpetrator 
should be.

Scowling is
my brow
wanting a
happy reunion
show....

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the crackle 
of dried twigs cracked
the steep stillness, the quiet
of May's blistering noonday;

gray owl,
from the dark foliage,
flew out into the sun's glare,
losing then finding its way;

noiselessly,
it flapped upward,
in slow spirals, scowling down,
then, blindly, soared far away!...

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Students at Work


See them work!
Studious looks,
Buried in books,
Leaflets flipping,
Binders snapping,
Pencils tapping,
Textbooks slamming,
Nick-knacks toppling,
Back-packs rummaging,
Noses rubbing,
Nail nibbling,
knees flapping,
Foreheads scrunching,
Eyebrows rising,
Lips compressing,
Faces scowling,
Chins supported,
Tongues catapulting,
Coughs echoes,
Work Accomplished!...

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Old Man

his weatherbeaten face, lined
with the hills and valleys of age
watery blue eyes set against a
backdrop of bloodshot white
his cheeks reddened from
sun and alcohol, his aquiline
nose has lost its nobility
his once full lips now just
scowling lines covering remnants
of jagged teeth
his stubble covered chin now
a dirty gray bristle
life has not been kind to him
...

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This piece is for National Poetry Day, Oct. 6, 2022. The theme this year is the environment, ergo...

I
Could be hurricanes
Are Mother Nature blowing
Off a little steam

II
Could be an earthquake
Is the Earth telling us she
Has a tummy ache

III
Could be volcanoes
Are just Earth's adolescent
Complexion issues

IV
Could be an eclipse
Is the universe scowling
In disapproval...

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buried in an
empty apartment
cluttered with 
dusty memories
whispering loss/regret

fearing & secretly 
wishing for
apocalyptic 
obliteration:
absolute
simplification

immobilized
by a frigid
gray/wet 
scowling
landscape

going nowhere
groping for hope
hoping for 
   a gentle
     slope

as I 
spiral
ever faster
into
an indifferent

     black 
     
      hole...

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A Poet’s Loss

I walked at length and wondered!
In the icy, pouring rain:_
Wind mercilessly howling, 
What I had done in vain!

How a friendship went asunder!
My true, heartfelt,pain.
Your poet’s pen just scowling,
In stuffy, vain and arrogant disdain!


            3-24-2022

* Stop thinking it was you! I wrote this 
   over a year ago! Even I do not know
   who it was! PR

...

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Why am I drawn
to this scowling girl
selling her poems
in a Shinjuku underpass?

Every Tuesday she is here,
next to a Nikon ad,
threatening commuters
with her cyclostyled angst.

Busy people keep up
with the times,
do a tap dance
on their smartphones.

Only drunks buy poetry.
Grubbing for their last,
sweaty coins, they
mock her with every purchase.


First published in Eclectica Magazine...

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Cold and Misty
By: Miracle Man
12-15-2019

This blustery day finds me quietened inside,
Weighing my thoughts before going to ink.
Most thoughts arriving my pen has denied,
I’m carefully bound and thoughts I bethink.

I gaze outside and observe leaves blowing,
A Northwester wind, gale force, is howling.
Today’s forecast mentions sleet and snowing,
Which means today will be spent scowling.
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Note: I am not sure if titles of this form can be something other than the first line of the poem, but my actual title would be "Christmas Figures" if that is able to be done.


Scrooge

sour, solitary

scowling, scrimping, withholding

miser, coins, celebrator, cookies

laughing, welcoming, giving

jovial, plump

Santa


Aug 13, 2022
for Caren Krutsinger's Dazzling Dizzy Diamante Poetry Contest...

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Dirty scowling crone
Old as the wind
Tear-stained cheeks
Sadness of knowing

Shuffling quietly
Through twisted shadows
She is darker than night
Darker than you

Stony chill of her breath
Whistling across 
Withered yellow lips
The foulest of crypts

Hating eyes
Hating you
Earthen pits of decay
Windows to oblivion

Embracing you…
Twitching, dying bats
Scurrying, gnawing rats
Screaming, slicing cats

Don’t look
Don’t watch
Don’t see
Don’t know

Ever...

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Gone are the days when gold shine filled the air.

Peace and love were the order of the day.

The fiend of darkness is lost in his dark kingdom.

He gyrates with pitiful madness and scowling eyes.

This empire of stone and blessed land of our birth.

Teaches a man how to live and shine amidst the stars.

So look not to the ground when virtue takes to the sky.

There joy can be found that needs not of pretty things!



date-3/8/2019...

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Written: April 21, 2024 For  Andrea Dietrich Andaree Contest

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Worry and stress weigh heavy on my spirit.
Lately, scowling is my lone licit!
Donning threads I don't desire.
I heave and acquire.
Deep. Dismay!
mire
Life gameplay
Will you tire this dire
Expand; love; improve higher -
Your psyche and flesh are your wickets.
Life isn't obvious, some concern, much merit....

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The mermaid swimming in the sea
was scowling when she spotted me -
quite ghastly with her seaweed hair,
she wasn't rattled by my stare,
and hauled herself on board my boat
(despite her weight, we stayed afloat).
Her scaly tail and fishy smell
convinced me that this gal was Hell,
and then she shoved me overboard.
My shouts and splashes quite ignored,
she cackled loudly, yelled, 'Whoopee'
and left me stranded in the sea...

for Line's Mermaid contest...

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