Short Umbrage Poems

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Can't laugh at yourself?
Brouhaha is so affronting!
A kick in the guts.
It's an own goal....

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In winters softness
          each flake of snow seeks refuge-
               ill winds take umbrage...

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UMBRAGE

imminent rainstorm 
newborn leaves cleave to Spring oak
sting of pristine slap

Kim Rodrigues © 2017...

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reward takes umbrage 
      true unrequited kindness 
         ~ payment in itself 
            

By
David Kavanagh...

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Tonight we sing to join an ancient course
Whose umbrage wrought both dove and flaming sword.
Our notes join the song whose age increased its force.
Our song plucks strings of early spoken word....

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Foul-mouthed chimney,
symbol of pollution.
Arrogant it stands
spewing insults skyward,
to engloom, to spite
the dwellings below.
Your flying fingers
send this umbrage fleeing,
rolling fleecy puffs
by you to be reclaimed....

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I have removed my idea for casting characters for the Wizard of Oz.  It would seem someone(s) took umbrage at the suggestion, perhaps in fear they'd be cast as a character they would not like to be associated with.  I find that amusing....

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I refuse to
pull you still
your smiles long
your secret will
consume me

mirror machine
on Baltic wings
shuddering songs
that lovers sing
remove me

steal my breath
and hold your own
waltzing walls
with umbrage thrown
release me...

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There was a man there
In the umbrage
Hidden
Shroud of overcast rain
The ravage drops danced wildly
Obscured across my pane
But I saw him!
For only just a moment's fled
But when I looked again
A double take
Another midnight's stupor fed...

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There is no one here, worthy sage
We’re in a lucid dream
Life may taunt but take no umbrage
Plunge into the love stream

Deepen not delusion
Silence ends confusion
Ego’s an illusion

Make fear disappear 
There is no one here...

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When gusts starts to shiver,
And pearl covers the river.
None frond is left in place,
Season just leaving trace.
Wrinkles within frozen tale,
Still life at the verge of hail.
Sky carrying grey umbrage,
Mortals going back to cage
as warmth getting old,
This sun now turning cold....

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Nearer our home, when terror strikes
There’s outburst of outrage
In yonder lands, when evil spikes
We then take not umbrage

Let’s help one another 
Each soul is our brother
Born from the same Mother

Death catacomb
Nearer our home

06-March-2022
Quietus ...

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Gain 
Ravish 
Envious
Engorge 
Desire

Greed
Lust
Use
Treachery 
Temptation
Overdo 
Neurotic 
Yearn

Pleasure
Rapture
Innocence 
Desire
Euphoria 

Wicked
Rage
Anger
Temper 
Harm

Explicit 
Need
Volatile 
Yearn

Long for
Umbrage
Spite
Tyranny 

Sluggish
Lazy
Oaf
Torpor
Hinder...

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a neighbour takes umbrage
at his own narrowness 
then vents rage
on us who so witnessed 
momentary flicker of flame

there is no judgment and yet
the aspect that so clings
assumes ownership
quite delusional of course 
and therein lies the dilemma 

we opt to be still
fanning not the fire...

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Total Surrender
By: Tom Wright
3/10/98

An ignominious life I had lived,
my surrender absolute.
I now find no place for cessation,
for Satan is so astute.

A captious person I will not be,
My antipathy toward sin will grow.
Take not umbrage at me, oh Lord,
for what's in my heart you know.
...

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My comments are meant to encourage
When I read the poem, I was impressed,
For you to say what you wrote took courage
My comments are meant to encourage
I don’t know why you take such umbrage,
When your poems are not so addressed
My comments are meant to encourage
When I read the poem, I was impressed.

Written October 8, 2022...

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Milton, Dante, Pope,
Pushkin, Lermontov, Shakespeare
Just to name a few
(Reader, I hope no Umbrage taken);
They Reach for Stars and Fly 
The Milky Way, Touch Universes
They are Poets!
Me – just a man of rhymes
(At least I try)
Crawling Earth,
Sometimes under, to share information
Which I deem important,
Without any regards to Rules;
Then, just get out....

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I glide through the mirroring
Lake
Lake; so still, so simply, indolently
worthless

Lake, disagrees, callous feelings
candors
A vociferous wind refurbishes
the was still, still
leaves

The wind is merely the umbrage
at my insult
It repudiates my
sincere apologies

I glide on the pretty
and this lake wanders
wandering so dumbfounded
at a skater's lithe...

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my trembling fingers reaching outwardly
through the umbrage of shadows
longing to feel your touch

my heart quickens beneath forbidden thoughts
as i thrust myself forward
in the pulse of my dreams

the quaver of my lips part in silence
to the kiss of temptation
appetence unfulfilled


November 27,2019
Pick A Title, Vol 11 - Kimo(3 Stanzas) - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh...

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Our soul's ascent has nothing to do with age,
if as yet dark animal instincts prevail,
that on facing rebuffs, heart still takes umbrage,
unable to quell raging fires that assail,
recognising not that life is but a stage,
where if we're detached, we may joyfully sail.

Let's forgive transgressors as we breeze through life,
in time dissolved stillness, at all times bliss rife.

02-November-2022...

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Ever so peaceful you appear,
Disguising your eternal suffrage.
Silent is your noted fear;
For to humans, you take umbrage.

Yet you try to smile, 
As the crimson stains your body.
You chant “Peace!” in denial,
To your own folly.

Bear witness to carnage;
Bear witness to despair.
For you are the stage,
In which they all appear!

Stagnant are we in turning peace to war,
Leaving your sorrowful mind with a silent scar....

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The room in the corner, 
With its three wood doors, 
Each heavier than before, 
A subtle air not of fear, 
Patient vents waiting to hear, 

Clenching at the scent, 
Umbrage and stale paint, 
Taste of turpentine and taint , 
Dust gracefully composed, 
Large eraser shards in throws, 

Senile light made rent, 
Lingering weight of lead, 
Below a layered graphite bed, 
Glows like the antithesis of chrome, 
A shallow doom drawn in monotone....

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Sprouts
appear.
His leaves grow
as he slowly gains
green to contrast the sky's blue.
Against the world He holds his strong arms above.

His leaves grow full and vibrant,
providing shade for each one
who so chooses to shelter
beneath His sprawling umbrage.
Lazy summer days turn night.

Green to red to yellow to brown. Slowly now they fall.
Once in His grand arms above,
they fall away and spread
His life, no
longer
sprouts....

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COPLA 67 INVOCATION: This Bad Guy World

“That’s the spirit, Tell the Old Man off!
Who does He think we are, s’il vous plait!
Of course, you’re right.”

If there were a God anthropomorph
Yes, we could all take umbrage and pray:
Universe might

Might we not be an experiment
Of some advanced civilization:
Testing Self Will

Or the chance physical accident
Of Immuable Laws’ equation:
Force renounce will

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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eclipse an errant eon
inhale discordant ions
exhale insectile icons

disarm misfiring memes
take umbrage under a titanic umbrella
recede from seething red-holes in sinkholes

just so you know…
Helga and Zohar orbit the Moon
a harsh mistress giggles indifferently
a cold cosmos says nothing
you are (not) what you think (you are)

forbid fallacious words
forget wordy fallacies
forgo fatuous wormholes

FYI, it’s Awesome
FWIW, it's Perfect
TBH, it’s FUBAR...

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