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Smugly Poems - Poems about Smugly

Premium MemberMirror Image

...You need not remind me of my mortality,

The evidence is reflected in the mirror.

But then you smugly preach about morality,

Come down off the cross, maybe you'll see things clearer....
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Categories: smugly, death, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberour platform had no newspapers, so i yelled at someone to throw one across the tracks

...i need to know what's going on
we're barren over here, yet over there
look at them smugly reading the NEWS

'can you throw one over pal?'
he pretends not to hear me
and looks down the platform
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Categories: smugly, anxiety, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberNoughts And Crosses

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Categories: smugly, appreciation, art, celebration, childhood,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberCrackers in the Soup

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                On the Soup we have broth and bisque 
                and the odd chowderhead with a whisk
                We got the antisemites who rant and rave 
                who are a...
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Categories: smugly, people, poets,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberWorld Nude Gardening Day 2025

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World Nude Gardening Day 2025

You’re inappropriately dressed my dear
My husband said to me.
Don’t you know it’s World Nude Gardening Day
I heard it on the radio, first Saturday in May
And yo...
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Categories: smugly, garden, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberFunny Contradictions

...A friend said, rather smugly,
you can't be "pretty ugly";
and where is the good,
and what is the likelihood
of one being "clearly misunderstood"?

An expression he's also dismissing
(or as kid...
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Categories: smugly, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTrump verses and other mild curses

...All for the price of a dozen eggs,
America stands on shaky legs.
Globally, the claim is heard ~
"The US ~ laughingstock of the world,"
as daily, we star in our very own theater of ...
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Categories: smugly, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Get a life

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So God asked me smugly, “How did you
find the life I fashioned one for you?”
“Not very colorful, Sire,” I decried.
“My wife was homely and dull
My kids, mediocre and drab
I slogged, I struggle...
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Categories: smugly, celebration, life,
Form: Free verse

Divine Fantasy

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If I had the magic wand in my hand  
Oh smugly before God I will stand 
and proclaim that if only for a day
I finally get to do things my way.   

I’ll undo all He verily so far has done
and ...
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Categories: smugly, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Every January first of the new year

...Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previou...
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Categories: smugly, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

October’s Child

...Born in the breath of woodsmoke and fire,
I learned early to love the art of falling.
Leaves tumble like poorly kept secrets,
trees strip down without shame -
modesty’s for summer, after all.

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Categories: smugly, autumn, birthday, emotions, halloween,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPretty Ugly

...A lonely woman, a chance meeting,
Nine months later, a baby girl is born.
Holding her close, as this was not planned,
Peeking under the blanket, feeling forlorn.

A tiny face, reddish, with ...
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Categories: smugly, baby, butterfly, heaven, mother,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDefinite Maybe

...Do you want to have a baby?

     I'll give you a definite maybe.
     Babies can cry and scream so loud.
     Three in one house can make a small crowd.
     I hope I'm not clearly misunder...
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Categories: smugly, baby, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberwrong

...Have you ever been wrong?
I was wrong.
Ugly, smugly wrong.
Psephologically wrong.
Hit the iceberg,
smoking’s good for you,
the treaty of Versailles,
left on red,
Copernicus, Aristotle, Custer...
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Categories: smugly, angst, crush, good night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMath Riddle

...What kind of jaded, jackass jerk'll
ask smugly with a smile and smirkle,
diagonals to think upon,
and an inscribed polygon,
while gazing on a split-up circle....
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Categories: smugly, math, riddle,
Form: Limerick

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