Tactless Poems

To Avoid Carnal Knowledge, Daphne Turns into an Oak

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What’s happening is clearly understood.
Apollo has one hand around her waist,                                    
one predator, one quarry, interlaced.
He’s coming up behind her (which is good),...
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Categories: tactless, love,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberIn 50 Long Years Gone Fast

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My husband is in many ways the opposite of me.
Were he to make a left turn along a route, I’d go right inevitably.

Astrologically, he’s emotional (double water) but I’m a stable triple earth.
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Categories: tactless, husband,
Form: Couplet


Love Drifts

...Brackish nerves languish and latch 
like seashells clinging to the shore—
something in the water pulls them in…
some fervor from something 
Familiar and Ancient.

I’ve seen your eyes before… 
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Categories: tactless, bereavement, character, courage, giving,
Form: Free verse

Regret

...The tears fall from terror taking my tragic soul
To teach a lesson to the tactless villans of
Today without remorse for the tragedy
I have witnessed

Never will I be the same after I was slain b...
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Categories: tactless, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBuyer's Remorse, Karma Deserved

...“Buyers Remorse, Karma Deserved”

Many voters are regretting their voting choice
Realizing they have stymied their voice
The voters on the right side of history
Will not join in their misery

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Categories: tactless, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberAbolishing The Department Of Education

...A human being needs to be educated
In order to make the world a better place
An uneducated politician or bully is a serious menace
To our vulnerable society. Ignorance is deeply rooted
In racism,...
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Categories: tactless, angel, bullying, corruption, education,
Form: Rhyme

Selfishly Artistic

...And one day
Out of the blue I wondered, 
about those million little sacrifices that have been made
Because of which, the desires burning inside
Had no option other than to fade
How many times, t...
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Categories: tactless, art, deep, pain, philosophy,
Form: Other

Premium MemberKamille Corry-Tear in the Wind

...Cornflower eyes are selfie-less.
My copper-toned hair, conspicuous.
My playful scarf binds my cares,
Softly flits about
My windblown countenance.
I lose myself in perspicacity,
Alluring and eni...
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Categories: tactless, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberGood Advice for Good-For-Nothing Naysayers

...To suffer the insults of fools is a worthless thing.
     Dismiss, and disregard, unthinking, tactless fellows,
who've nothing else to do (like court jesters of a king)
     than peevishly chide, ...
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Categories: tactless, abuse, evil, hate, jealousy,
Form: Alexandrine

Premium MemberNo Anchor For Rancor

...No Anchor for Rancor

Wounded the ship of my soul, 
With tattered sails,
Heels up in malevolence,
Venom puffs out the jib
In leeward grudges of tactless spite
On a pointless reach 
Heading up...
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Categories: tactless, ocean, wind,
Form: Free verse

Little Me

...it's little me
I live in here
growing up I see
a life full of fear

how do I grow
doing this or that
how do I know
when I just fall flat

hello shorty
little blue eyed boy
you'll not make...
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Categories: tactless, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

A Life of Uncompleted Jobs

...It has been a short - lived career,
Former ones tried on Black Maria;
To soon start bearing A Pariah,
His story the same in Syria,
Which he had judged land of Moriah,
Jesus Christ leaving for Sh...
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Categories: tactless, absence, allusion, career, change,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFig Leaf

...Fig Leaf

“While the fig leaf traditionally covers naked shame
The fig leaf also makes a healing tea of restoration” Quote by poet.

Ducking beneath a quilt woven of the fig leaf
 To sip upon a...
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Categories: tactless, life, nature,
Form: Free verse

Caring For Your Teeth

...Some oddly dully think
About their teeth that stink,
When they should’ve sounded some bell
About all not being well.
Some away choose to walk ,
When it has become the talk
And Dental Caries for...
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Categories: tactless, body, care, food, health,
Form: Rhyme

Sexual Harassment

...Another blazing steel
That  carve wounds which don’t fully heal
Besides those of Big Brother Rape
Whose injurious  clutch very few escape.

A pointing finger by forensic evidence maintained
Abo...
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Categories: tactless, abuse, anti bullying, desire,
Form: Rhyme

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