TEMPER
TEMPER
My love,
I am pained by my pain which leaves me in pains
Oh!.
Have you not drank your fill
Of my will's will?
The tug ever drains me
Temper!
Temper my love!
Are you listening?
My mind is a mine
Mined In fields
Of my faces
Oh!
By whom you ask?
Oh! Please you know better of my
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Categories:
temper, allegory, analogy, feelings, truth,
Form: Free verse
THE BEAST STILL LINGERS
The thunderstorm slows, the rain abates
There is that eerie wind, then silence
that follows like a stray dog and you
remember screaming as the rain poured in
cursing, every curse you knew. And now
all is silence, a steady drip in the kitchen
And the raving maniac that you became
is quiet, the fire forgotten for now
But like the storm the
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Categories:
temper, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Smash and Grab
He smashed that thing.
What was his mood?
He'd spoken to her, to him,
then to that dog, that cat.
What is the cause of a mood,
though often good, but -
oh dear! - so bad at times?
But then he returns. He’s here.
Does he always or merely often
think he's now had
a smashing event -
though only at times?
Or can he be
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Categories:
temper, angst, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Temper Tantrum and Wanting Attention
Subject: Temper Tantrums
Give someone having a temper tantrum
an inch and they will take a mile's worth
of attention. You cannot kill the same
dead horse twice or shoot a six shooter
a seventh time without reloading it.
Remember this. When you either
complain or condemn or criticize
an opponent you are doing the same
to their supporters and constituents,
family members, church
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Categories:
temper, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Temper Whispers-SHM
Written: November 17, 2023 For Charles Messina Contest
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In peace of mind and unwavering pride
Draw out your inner disgruntled callow
Expunge ailing masks and set them aside
Shackled and phony leaches start shallow
Untamed freedom leaves a rage of delight
Lightning strikes when volition avails reign
As the noise of
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Categories:
temper, analogy, appreciation, freedom,
Form: Sonnet
Temper Temper
Temper temper
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
Temper temper tantrum
Chaos and the clutter
Pulling hair and
Snarling bantum
Screaming mad shrew
Like in a stadium boo boo
Bloody Mary
Yelling red volcano
Suspend your eruption
Of push and snap
Stop your
Foul melody
All over again
Don't claim
What is not ..
Supreme you
Wanna be
Complain complain
Blame blame
You wanna play
A shameless game
Temper temper tantrum
Chaos and the clutter
Rest your daily nag
Or we lose all
Affection in
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Categories:
temper, anger, anxiety, bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Vampire, of Its Hellish Temper All But the Devil Was Afraid
Vampire, Of Its Hellish Temper All But The Devil Was Afraid
(Part One)
Its dark powers were off the black wickedness charts
It ended thousands with its uncharted powers
Unworldly hungry, appetite for eating hearts
Risen from Satan's darken highest of towers.
Gallons and gallons blood, its every new meal
It seeks purely innocent to torture or drain
Anger, hatred emotions it happily
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Categories:
temper, betrayal, dark, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
temper, america, anger, angst,
Form: Senryu
Turn a Deaf Ear
Turn a deaf ear to unnecessary whining
For what we take in can affect our mood
‘Tis better than engaging in maligning,
Never to respond with a comment rude.
Written May 27, 2022
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Categories:
temper, feelings, senses, spoken word,
Form: Quatrain
Lost My Temper
I am not the only one to survive
So I have to think of others
I try not to lose my temper
Think of people's plight
Think of people's deficiency
Think of people's hardship
Think of people's IQ
Think of people's expectation
Think of people's fate
The world has to take and give
The world is not only mine
The world is fair yo
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Categories:
temper, fate, god, hope, lost,
Form: Free verse
A Handiwork of Short Temper
As a hurting song is being sung,
At a white polo shirt is flung
What can have been a cow’s dung
And on same it foully clung
And on a nearby face hung;
All a hurried indiscreet challenge
By one refusing to change,
As though it is beyond his range,
The idea pointblank strange
Or one’s denial of a sweet orange!
At last, the
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Categories:
temper, anger, brother, character, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Curse Words
We sing “Holy is thy name, O Lord,”
Yet attach it to every unsavory word
Then euphemizing, we say “gall-durn,”
It seems like we will never learn!
We pray “Hallowed be thy name,”
Forgetting our curses mean the same
We even go so far as to say “Holy Sh*t,”
And rarely consider what we mean by it.
I must plead guilty too often
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Categories:
temper, words,
Form: Light Verse
A Special Offer
Pick up an offer
You'll find a new adventure
A deduction of prices
A quick accumulating crowd
A long queue of patience
And a challenge of temper
A traffic jam
And a lost of precious time
An extra expenditure
And a new debt
And a risk to Covid-19
Really an underestimated offer
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Categories:
temper, loss, time,
Form: Free verse
Her Temper Incited Countrymen
She used her temper to totally chide
Most of her countrymen on the hillside
Annoying some greatly
Especially lately
They may have to commit a fratricide
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Categories:
temper, funny,
Form: Limerick
Life's Weather System
Energy is in the sky
Lightning flashes by
An angry sword
Nature’s electric chord
Is it a show?
A temper tantrum dangerous throw
White on black
Weather attack
Shatters and crack
Dark clouds map the track
Stops everything on the ground
Shelter needs to be found
Then the rain
Roaring down like a freight train
Taking
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Categories:
temper, anger, emotions, feelings, rain,
Form: Rhyme
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