Short Thankless Poems

never enough
they all wanted
a piece of her



posted on August 20, 2018...

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give till it bleeds
and it still 
won't be enough



posted on August 30, 2018...

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Why would I follow the crowd
   Does it know where it's going

I'd rather steer my own ship
   Than do the thankless rowing...

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People born with soil
Not star dust 
Breeding on the soil 
Ultimate reaching to soil 

But thankless people 
Not trusting the soil...

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If by 50, 
you have yet to see beauty
in all God's creations: man, beast, and soil

Then by thankless
you traded joy for sadness 
and all is lost from head, breast, and toil....

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A weary, old father trying to corral his children
while proud young bachelors vie with each other
in reckless, blind competition.

A thankless task to exert control,
but others refuse to.

18 November 2022...

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Come the day that I depart
This cold and thankless place
I’ll pass on unremarked
But, with a smile on my face
For I have found a treasure
As I head off for my end
The only thing we need in life
A true and loyal friend...

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It's a lonely life
  staring at a blank page
Without my wonderful wife
  I fear I'd disengage

It would be a thankless task
  to write without a supportive group
My deepest gratitude and appreciation
  to my friends at Poetry Soup...

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How humble is the cleaner,
The cleaner who must dodge threatening dogs and
Hold her legs at bay – her perfect work unbroken.

How she quietly longs softly working with her vacuum,
And room to room, smearings the smell of soaps.
Dragging miles of wires of the vicious.

How humble is the cleaner...

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Fragile the wo
....................rds break
your con
sent
___r
___a
____i
____t
shone the bound
are ease
The dirt underneath the angels
manicured digits
evils at the bank
saving grace
no one left to thank
ewe
not a grunt
Thankless
Think less
no one seen
my be
Stay tuned
Anticipation
coming soon...

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Darkness swallows the day
Time has come once again
To light the sky,and then
Show them the way

Guardian on the pier
Years of thankless duty
With a certain beauty
You stand alone

The sentinel shines on
Never failing to warn
Upholding an oath sworn
Not on my watch

Greg Hoffman
On the pier contest/Nette Onclaud
7/10/2014...

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One over two
Haven’t got a cloo
That I am patient
Over latent
Casualty under
None blunder
Keeping asunder
One’s number
Thankless worry
Timeless tarry
I hate words
That completes hordes
Of desperation
Of destruction
Can’t oppress
The goddess
Perfect gold
Over the hold
Dynamic carry
Soft faire
One’s greater than infinity

Russell Sivey...

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Colors, for certain, paint visions for us;
Only sometimes might think it nonplus.
Life often lets us take for granted that
Once we see colors, charisma falls flat.
Real color is magic- so, we must learn
Forgetting this sets thankless concern.
Until we reckon black, gray, and white-
Luculent colors won't earn our delight!...

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In foggy winter of mistrust,
To warm up heart in hope of sun,
To dry my nagging doubts to dust,
Scorch misunderstandings in June,
I waited with hope till undone.

And yet, not else I could but hope
For my long chilling heart to thaw,
Cajole it, give it a long rope,
Wait for a warmer tomorrow,
Or just to my thankless fate bow.
_____________________________  
Quintain |07.01.2024|sun, hope  
...

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Suspense kills
I would kill again 
grasping at fate, where it lies
on my conscience.

What's left of this you have a taste for now,
pulling together,
moving on to what you left behind,

Stripping time

I time travel until I belong in my skin,
no longer in limbo watching the clock,
your lies wasting away the hours...

a thankless task to cling to time,
always waiting for what I cannot decline....

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Suddenly I’ve walked out, into the air…
All bluely about, what am I supposed to do? 
Dance! Dance! 
Under the willow tree. 
Blue air, fresh air, come in….  
I welcome your necessity.
Around me. 
In me. Through me. 
Out. 
Invisibly intimate.  
Between all and all between, hold me tightly with your weaving winds.  
I never knew I lost you, until I found you.  
Your thankless endeavors…..existence. 
Such is your glory....

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"I look around me, 
Covered in blood and pus I am. 
Dead bodies lie flat on their faces, 
of people all from different races. 
My heart beats frantically in my chest, 
As I walk through the depths of Hell; unpure and unblessed. 
Darkness surrounds me like a cold, freezing blanket,
any living soul will be thankless.
I know now my position in this forsaken land, 
I'm drowning in misery as fast as a quicksand."...

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Panic slowly my good friend
Good friends- they panic slowly,
We take it slow and way we go
Away from feeling lowly.

No fear in us but only trust
How we aim so steadily,
All aboard and toward
Choices that are readily.

Don’t be alarmed nor ever dread 
Nor even be so anxious,
We’ll get it right in hindsight 
For we shan’t be so thankless.

Panic slowly my sweet friend
No need to stay uptight,
Life is good to be as should
Wonderful and bright....

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What a mighty web we weave
Throughout the times,
Throughout that raging river of poetry
That thankless flow of consciousness.
Possibly, the very beginning of story telling
With beautiful couplets that produced the likes of Beowulf 
That carried on for centuries and centuries
To possess the spirit of Shakespeare 
That carries on today 
With you or me
With it's titillating and frivolous free verse
And masterful spoken word
Rap even
But all thankless...

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Them

Butterfly

Them

Beatles

Them

Ever so colourful patterned
Ladybugs

Suckling on the pollen of the
that last single rose

In natures magical garden

Where on earth do you rest 
your sleepy head at the end
of the day

Once daylight is spent

And the star's take over
to fly by night

And why the thankless of
tasks are exactly that

Merely a worker born to
service a cause

Who never gets to keep
or take any home for himself...

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Once again I praised myself how mighty is my mind of course it was so easy. How can I 
accept the praise to act as it was so thankless? To take thanks would be insane what a 
lovely decision it was at the time. Months later it comes to mind what stupidity my 
biggest mistake. Once again I hate myself how simple is my mind once again I live a lie. 
Of course I know the reasons I’ll accept all the blame for things I don’t want to 
remember. One day my lonely body hangs....

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Under the vast domain and beautiful blue skies,
there lie a million plus causes for much gratitude.

None that I have known have reason to be thankless.
Goodness and mercy, says the Psalmist, shall follow me.

With such following, there is no cause for fear, doom,
and gloom. Reaping and harvesting result from sowing.

God's Goodness derives from His good mercies,
giving no cause for ingratitude.

110122PSCtest, Writing Challenge-Unburden a 'U' Word.
Constance La France...

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She and vehicles,
Adversaries forever,
No quarter given
And none asked on either side.
The metal beasts smell money,
Wound themselves to devour it.

It doesn't matter
How she tries to hide her cash -
Spitefully they sniff it out
And die gleefully,
Knowing she must resurrect
Their thankless, thieving thick hides.

O you willful ones,
You steelclad dromedaries,
Do you think you can defeat
The Mighty Bulldog?
She never wants Will - just Ways.
Once found - you're dispensible....

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I bares my bosom to 
the open wind.

caressing and kissing 
enternal peace to 
what only heart can 
feel.

I have stayed too 
long 
on this night of dead 
winter. 

Muttered lips gives 
birth to words from 
frozen and senile 
thoughts. 

No farewell,  
thankless,i departed 
as my heart sleeps 
with the ice and 
snow 
flakes.

what is left of me? 
The silver tears of 
my 
angelic wife,such 
golden goddess.

And the wail of 
cherubic kids. 
With my fore i now lie....

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