Indifferent
...It is not that I do not care
or your worries that I share
Your problems though they be
are not really about me
Sympathy not much
feelings out of touch
Concern forgive my yawn
angry I feel ra...
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Categories:
simmer down, humor, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Passive Aggressive
...Please don’t create all the drama
and then sit and ask why it’s there.
Say it’s okay but clearly it’s not
start in on the texting girl just stop.
It’s clear that you won’t just say it,
veraci...
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Categories:
simmer down, anger, emotions, feelings,
Form: Acrostic
Compelling Confusion is so uncool -No Way? Yes Way-
...Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-i...
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Categories:
simmer down, angst, anxiety, community, confidence,
Form: Acrostic
i guess i am an old soul observing
...i guess i am an old soul observing
yes, i observe
you in those wonderfully fitting loose pants
you've caught me looking many a time
you know that i am guilty of just being guilty
my punishment i...
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Categories:
simmer down, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Soup is Piping
...The soup boils and spits out at me
Reminding me of the past.
Steam builds as it circulates around the fans
Lurching forward, with a spoon,
I taste a small droplet of the sizzling delight
Only to...
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Categories:
simmer down, caregiving, change, dream, for
Form: Free verse
Passing To a Memory
...When my time has finally come
When it’s time to leave this earth
Please let me leave with dignity
Let me decease with all my worth.
Spare my loved ones from the pain
Don’t let them watch me si...
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Categories:
simmer down, death, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Blossom
...simmer down, sweat not
sally on
let your bud, blossom,
open like arms
to the world
to the world
to the world
one smile
at a time, timed
to meet each soul
to greet the sun...
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Categories:
simmer down, peace,
Form: Free verse
Magic Spell For a Modern World
...Wart of hubris, sweat of cursed
Jealous eyes and greed at worst
Blood from pride, tears from pain
Some wretched feelings from disdain.
Sordid juices caused by lust
One liberal dusti...
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Categories:
simmer down, analogy, magic, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Uncontrolled Blaze
...You think that you can cage this phoenix and expect my flames to simmer down,
In hopes that the heat that is extracted from my aura is diminished.
But you are misinformed and mistaken.
Thinking t...
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Categories:
simmer down, break up, change, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Butter Mother Learns Her Lesson
...Butter was most gorgeous color of yellow the unicorns had ever seen.
Many suggested she might grow to be Mayflower’s Unicorn Queen.
Giddy mother told too many people who were jealous of her babe.
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Categories:
simmer down, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Natural Nature Needs
...There are gray skies north to south
Fertile new world land needing a water spout
Before the purple mountain majesty time
There is a yellow shine
Beautiful blue the sky chimes
But when the m...
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Categories:
simmer down, anger, appreciation, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme
Accumulating Anger: Sorry Isn'T Enough
...I found out that God's mercy is bigger than our own
I figured out that God's spirit makes us feel not alone
But, I'm pretty regretful for the abominable sins that I've done
Sometimes, I wish that ...
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Categories:
simmer down, depression, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Clip, Clip
...Lucy bought things she may never use.
Her poor hubby, irate, did accuse:
“You have blown so much money!”
She said, “Simmer down, Honey.
I used COUPONS. Please don’t blow a fuse.”
syllable co...
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Categories:
simmer down, money,
Form: Limerick
Conspiracy of Violence
...Nationalism,
nation supremacy,
rooted in competing patriarchal capital rivalries,
is entirely incompatible with EarthPatriotism
rooted in loyalty to cooperatively healthy matriotism
Wherever M...
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Categories:
simmer down, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Countdown
...Ten is the number to begin
Early in the garden
Gathering herbs, foxglove and more
On her face casual grin
Nine are the ingredients here
Placed in beef stew to simmer
It will be tender, su...
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Categories:
simmer down, betrayal, death, fear, murder,
Form: Rhyme
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