Slights Poems - Poems about Slights

Ode to the Sultan of Slights

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You are a soligaster of the highest order, held in pristine favor by your court.  A wordsmith after Satan’s own heart. 

Champion of Doublespeak, a demonstrative firebrand with a MAGA-phone.  An ...

Ode to the Sultan of Slights

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You are a soligaster of the highest order, held in pristine favor by your court.  A wordsmith after Satan’s own heart. 

Champion of Doublespeak, a demonstrative firebrand with a MAGA-phone.  An ...

Champagne reign of Shane

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It’s been 3 years since the low blow of nadirs 

As we said hooroo to you..goodbye to our top guy

Still feeling...reeling from the pain

Of all the polished veneers of careers

Which is th...

flip a coin

...two sides to every coin
sometimes, 
the head speaks
while the tail roars
twisted by the pain
tales of their fame
an infamous villain
sent to the stockade

Tales told, and evils sold
A pench...

The Seance

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“The Seance” 

It was macabre you see,
we were all summoned,
and therefore found ourselves
in the front parlour of Ballylee;

In our dreams
we thought we were poets
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Sisters

...Ages past, the words that caused the rift
still, today, so far apart they drift.
As time recedes, old memories fade
bitterness remains their raw charade.
New slights imagined, old stories told
s...

RSVP

...R.S.V.P.

I read your note today.
You begged me to stay.
I needed to get away.

You asked for a reply.
I could only sigh.
I knew I would lie.

Tears blurred as I wrote.
My hand scribbled a...

I will distribute my poems left and right!

...I know that life is a continuous fight,
Who can hear a quiet person might? 
May today be a celebration for mankind, 
I will distribute my poems left and right!

Let my poems flash like lightning...

Riots From Rhymes

...There are only so many pages and so many stages
Of life I can riddle and write on through 
Until the paper's a waste, and the words are bad taste
And I can't tell fiction from true
Until the pen ...

When We Get There

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When we get to our appointed heaven
hearts and minds still cooling
slights and insults recovering
from many a minor bullet hole
from small caliber affronts
loathing’s and spites
and other pet...

Blessed Advent Cores His Great Divine

..."Blessed assurance glory divine ..."

Supine haze swiped tall grass wooing shadows,
as chimes of wren's feathers a float parade,
begs a trace with leaves sought resting barrows, 
the...

The Breath Of Summer: Saturnian II--SCHEMATICS ONLY

...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a 
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daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist 
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ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn...

The Breath Of Summer: Saturnian I

...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a 
daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist 
ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn of spring ...

'Tis the volley of calendrical crasis 
poised t...

Home Is Where You Hang Air

...COUPLET
After a couple of Tequila Sunrise
so I swap my drink that'll keep open my eyes
so I had a glass of Kahlua and cream
that's a blunder as I fell into a dream

INNER RHYME
I awoke that fe...

Waker-Upper

...A butterfly, aliferous,
of subtle slights, soniferous,
common spirits, days just went by,
aliferous . . . a butterfly.

Low pinnacles alight sought rest
forgiving sun favors spread ...

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