Umbrage
Can't laugh at yourself?
Brouhaha is so affronting!
A kick in the guts.
It's an own goal.
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Categories:
umbrage, anger, relationship,
Form: Verse
Umbrage
Our soul's ascent has nothing to do with age,
if as yet dark animal instincts prevail,
that on facing rebuffs, heart still takes umbrage,
unable to quell raging fires that assail,
recognising not that life is but a stage,
where if we're detached, we may joyfully sail.
Let's forgive transgressors as we breeze through life,
in time dissolved stillness, at all times
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Categories:
umbrage, forgiveness,
Form: Ottava rima
Nested In the Umbrage
laden in the semblance of the lifeless
i curled my mind, nesting in the umbrage
of memories that haunt more than touch
unable to soar within the wind's of time
she begged me to fly, wrap my wings around faith
offer her comfort, make promises she knows i can't keep
yet my words fall darkened like november days upon her deafness
my
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Categories:
umbrage, cancer, death, friend,
Form: Free verse
Mine Penned Umbrage Metes Rebuttal
I apologize at any unintentional
flagitious, egregious,
deleterious et cetera and
atrocious (asper wording),
which accidental faux pas
toward an allpoetry participant
named skypriceireland, who brand
did me with
crookedly unflattering feedback,
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Categories:
umbrage, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Umbrage
Foul-mouthed chimney,
symbol of pollution.
Arrogant it stands
spewing insults skyward,
to engloom, to spite
the dwellings below.
Your flying fingers
send this umbrage fleeing,
rolling fleecy puffs
by you to be reclaimed.
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Categories:
umbrage, pollution, sky,
Form: Free verse
Umbrage
UMBRAGE
imminent rainstorm
newborn leaves cleave to Spring oak
sting of pristine slap
Kim Rodrigues © 2017
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Categories:
umbrage, nature, pain, rain,
Form: Haiku