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Smugness Poems - Poems about Smugness

Our skin is not a costume
...Our pain is not your entertainment We don't exist purely for your amusement My skin is not a costume Don't treat us like we are some display In a showroom We won't apologise for our presence......

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Categories: smugness, anger, appreciation, celebration, race,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Superfly Cool In the Wonder Years of the Ghettoverse
...I wonder if Pops will lie out in his trademark bell-bottoms—faded denim flares that split the air like his cool, bending time, making room for his strut as if the horizon would yield to his next step......

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Categories: smugness, black african american, childhood,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When Pets and Their Companions Start to Resemble Each Other
... I held the leash like it was sacred, I warned that she spooked easy. He knelt down slowly, extended his hand like a priest offering sacrament to a god built from nerves and ribs. He said <>...

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Categories: smugness, allusion, anxiety, conflict, extended
Form: Free verse
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: smugness, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Some Acknowledge Greatness
... How is it, that we find beauty, yet another sees ugliness? I think it festers in a place of dark, deep, inner smugness! Humilty is a great sign in any God made human. Plowing throug......

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Categories: smugness, humanity, imagery, poets, pride,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Jaw Dropping Experience
... Went to the ROM last weekend The Royal Ontario Museum An absolute and total eye opener for sure We, with our sophisticated smugness With our feeling of superiority Emboldened by toda......

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Categories: smugness, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shades Magic
... Blue, white, and gold Are kaleidoscopic shades That mirror shades from elixir Out into the wide, blue ocean Where the waves that rock The mix that falls from the sky, Whirling i......

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Categories: smugness, color, rainbow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blame
... A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. John Burroughs bursts of anger once ruined me, my hopes and dreams, fear and doubt stol......

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Categories: smugness, angst, pride,
Form: Kyrielle
Acid reflux very early morning March 3rd, 2024
...Acid reflux ~ very early morning March 3rd, 2024 Ah... nothing more enjoyable than acidic gastric fluid (bile) flowing backward into esophagus, resulting in heartburn, meanwhile disrupting ple......

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Categories: smugness, angst, baptism, body, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I shall find a way or make one
...(Inveniam viam) Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the humpback whales Ships p......

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Categories: smugness, dark, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Smug
...Smugness in human behaviour Is such an unappealing trait A smug word ,a smug smile Only provokes hate If a smug superior attitude Is all you offer and deliver Zip your mouth and lock it And......

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Categories: smugness, anti bullying, humor, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Jaw Dropping Experience
...Went to the ROM last weekend The Royal Ontario Museum An absolute and total eye opener for sure We with our sophisticated smugness With our feeling of superiority Emboldened by today's a......

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Categories: smugness, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bashing of British
...Wobble chops in 99, was driving cars and doing fine' He'd was in 'top gear' where his sweaters looked drear On a roll, he was always really; ready to talk and stroll Smugness poured out of him, h......

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Categories: smugness, betrayal, career, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Acid Reflux Early Morning August 9th 2022
...Acid reflux ~ early morning August 9th, 2022 Ah... nothing more enjoyable than acidic gastric fluid (bile) flowing backward into esophagus, resulting in heartburn, meanwhile disrupting pleasan......

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Categories: smugness, anxiety, confusion, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Felix Is Dead
...Felix is dead I have a tail, huge teeth Which I only use for food I love the pack leader I walk with him each day But I’ve heard a rumour Someone new is coming to stay I bite through toys ......

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Categories: smugness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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