Tetchy Poems

Tale of Two Cities and Two Captains

...Well what the Dickens is going on?
My choice as the greatest scribe and voice of our tribe
Charles not himself a cricketing man but definitely a fan

Twas…the tale of two skippers and two cities
...

The Narrowing

...Glowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the...

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance

...Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (ma...

Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time

...Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time

This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging

teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teachi...

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance First Cell

...He/him (ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark recesses of hermitage
averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself
into the duplicitous schemes
capitalized, glorified, popular...

The Narrowing

...Glowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the...

To Be I Don'T Want To Be

...To be (I don’t want to be)

I don’t want to be a Mole living in a hole,
I want to be a Cat sunbathing on a mat

I don’t want to be a slug slithering like a lug,
I want to be an eagle majestic a...

Undaunted

...Tasteless pelt whiffs of mundane air
Against my nostrils numb with dread; 
Scarcely fathom I what spectacle fair 
Beyond this umbra curtain latent lies. 

Tetchy harbingers over dark corners
Lu...

The Narrowing

...Glowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the...

Oenophilia

...It's always been an uncanny pleasure of mine, 
To behold the tetchy affair that thrives between
A gregarious man and his choice crimson wine; 
For each loves and loathes in equaled measure. 

Ho...

Onerous Anus Complex Number One

...Pain in the ass devoid of dreck
inapropos poetic material what the heck
more unbearable than crick in neck
shiver me timbers, I feel like total wreck
the (see) Edmund Fitzgerald, si?.

Spasmodi...

Onerous Anus Complex Number 2

...cuz poisonous toxins sting like scorpions
severely crimping ability to sit down absorption
radiating throughout every
cell guaranteeing abstention
against hidebound contract, no

ifs, ands, nor...

Gambit

...Bat-blind to looming gripe and cold decay,
Clueless shoots jump onto life's gay stage,
Oblivious of Grim Fate's scything designs
That waste with disease and stealing age. 

They wouldn't turn ar...

The Narrowing

...Glowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the...

The Astronomer

...THE ASTRONOMER’S RETURN

An astronomer tetchy but famous
When his theories were placed in question
Returned this contortive suggestion 
“Why don’t you go gaze at Uranus!”...

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