Short Troublesome Poems

Writing a haiku
Is quite troublesome to do - 
Must count syllables....

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Not meant for this world
Too naive and troublesome
Too slow to catch up...

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The world has its kind
There's war posturing attack
Why cracking the crack?...

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S - Sadistic
A - Awesome
T - Troublesome
A - Alone
N - Noble...

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Doubt is a troublesome occupation
—certainty merely absurd

(Radnor Pennsylvania: October, 2020)...

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stress enlightening
fosters some mental mayhem
for troublesome minds









Just Thinkin'....Poetry Contest
12/30/2020...

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Love
Love
Lovers.
No soft word,
As people think but—
Cruel and tearing—a man sitting
In a rocker, most troublesome of all to woman...

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such painful ecstasy
such troublesome want
to care so much 
to want to be with so much
some wonderful creature
who feels no love for you...

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I went to the morgue with a wreath
They told me she's down on the heath
My troublesome mask
Just ruined my task
Wreath in hand, I tossed down my teeth!...

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Mercury in Retrograde
The stars play
troublesome pranks.
Send us back where we began
back again.
We crash we wake
and seethe,
like the pull from the moon 
at night
on sand....

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There once was a troublesome brother
Who was mean to his dear old mother
She paddled him hard
Out in the back yard
Better a paddling than the druther.

written July 16, 2021...

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An unpleasant emotion so strong
is the fear that pursues us lifelong
of a troublesome phrase
that is certain to faze.
What's the phrase?  Just three words: “I was wrong.”...

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Toilet Seat

This again I may have to repeat
What if I were a troublesome toilet seat
Instead of up and down one of these days
I actually would have moved it sideways.

James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran...

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Skyscraper: 

The raindrops 
Falling over my bed,
Upon the eaves of my bedroom roof,
Sound like an army of cat paws treading lightly
Lest they disturb some troublesome foe,
When all I can think of
Is the rain....

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If a task is difficult, tough, laborious and hard.
Give it to a singer, a dancer, a poet, a bard.
Let them change it from troublesome to something fun.
Before you know it, you will be dancing, and the task will be done....

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Boiling head
troublesome desires
searching hands	
open mouth
storehouse belly
restless limbs
curious camera eyes
laboratory tongue
test tube nostrils
and software brain
but no device for replay
the rich documentary...

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Who created human race!
God's power I can not face?

Why can't I sometimes relax?
Just have to face troublesome facts

Hearing voices, voices, voices
Made some rather costly choices

Getting rid of Satan's hate?
Something which to celebrate!...

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What’s the purpose of life?  For our fellow-man’s sake.
I am willing to do this.  Please make no mistake.
But a thought comes to mind
of a troublesome kind:
For whose sake will the others live?  What is your take?...

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Troublesome times
By Margaret L. Campbell

Troublesome times
You and me
Tough it out
Can we try?
What to do?
Make a stand
Love you so
Makes me cry
Feel really bad
Dry my eyes
Pain never subsides
Though it hurts
Could we change?
Time to grow...

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Rodents that stealthily invade a home,
Agile and able to crawl through tight spaces.
Troublesome pests that chew holes and leave droppings,
Scurrilous scavengers with beady-eyed faces.

8/23/13
For Andrea Dietrich's Four Letter Word Acrostic contest....

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Ceaseless questions
unsatisfying answers
stressful ideas
troublesome thoughts
truth-
is nowhere to be found
lies-
are all over
whilst doubts take over
deficiency of certanty
what
why
how
dominate
while quest and thirst rule.

Drencho POET Loads...

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rumbustious, quick-tempered and quarrelsome
turbulent and troublesome

redirect all that energy
and strive rather to be fearlessly awesome



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Submitted for PREMIERE CONTEST No.120 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - December 29, 2017...

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We're here to help each other
and that's all I could ever ask
It eases the pain
even only for a little while
The little words mean a lot
even with long spaces
But that's okay
because we come right back
and give each other self-worth
on these hard troublesome nights...

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“I weep at his words and you scowl.”
“what could be so troublesome my dear
that reading such, you’d shed a tear?”

“He writes of love quite flowery
sly hints about my dowry.

“Of a love he lost in the distant gloom.”
“of love notes tinged with another's perfume.”
....

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Sit still; block out all the noise

        Discard your troublesome woes

                 Take a moment of silence...

                          to hear yourself breathe!





Date written: 12/01/2019...

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