Vindictiveness
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Vindictiveness disguised as kindness
Is still vindictiveness
The true intent often seen through honest eyes...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, character, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head
...Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head...
not just in time for Valentine's Day
but the remaining days of our lives
as the world turns
on all our children
the young and restle...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, absence, adventure, anger, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Deeper waters
...Nasty Me, Hypocrite
From the looks of things,
I've gazed deep into my soul,
And it only gives rise to pain.
I am the shadow that consumes your light,
A toxic lover, poisoning your sight.
My...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, age, art, assonance,
Form: Concrete
Nasty me
...Nasty ME hypocrite
From the looks of things
For I have looked deep down my soul
And it only give rise to pain
You see
I am the shadow that consumes your light,
A toxic lover, poisoning...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, allusion, dark, evil,
Form: Other
Bullies
...Bullies
Unrestrained, belligerent bullies abound,
In schools, institutions, and in businesses
Who create ruckuses that serve no purpose,
But to show passionless feelings of meanness,
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Categories:
vindictiveness, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Terzanelle
Ice On Fire
...As in crystal methamphetamine, the mind becomes cold.
Anxiety, paranoia, and schizophrenia
Creep in, like snakes and deathstalker scorpions, uncontrolled
Are bones, veins, flesh, and blood affecte...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, humanity, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Overzealousness and Assiduousness
...Overzealousness and assiduousness...
now propels yours truly towards restitution
courtesy sophisticated mountebank,
whose criminal mind
filched mine banknotes
rationed for when I exhibit decre...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, angel, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Ominous Riddance
...My shadowy quondam
radiated a crimson hue
was alive and moving
now it is a ghost
emotionless
colorless and lethargic
a heart rimmed with marigolds
the sharp color of bloody mul...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Dead For All Eight Hours
...They are dead for all eight hours!
They'll rise to wag their fingers!
At that time they will talk big things
That talk to their egos and powers!
They will rise with all their trappings
And re...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, abuse, analogy, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rubaiyat
Love Lost, Love Found
...I stood at the edge of hopelessness,
Losing my son when my ex-wife left
My spirit was at its lowest ebb, I confess.
I could only imagine the loss of his smiles,
I can honestly say, I was comple...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Passive-Aggressive
...Silently undermining
Oh, what sneaky saboteur!
Simmering vindictiveness
'Neath his warm veneer
Date written: 01/23/2022...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, perspective,
Form: Dodoitsu
Negative Nature
...“Nature bears long with those who wrong her. She is patient under abuse. But when abuse has gone too far, when the time of reckoning finally comes, she is equally slow to be appeased and to turn away...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Oh, I Forgot
...I forgot I belonged to God.
He is my only Master, not worldly
foppish clowns.
My allegiance, to no human is owed.
Just to Him, who gave me life and an
eternal soul.
Can people harm me, oh yes...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, god,
Form: Rhyme
A Lament For America
...How long must the hostility and bitterness continue
The clear majority has made its preference known,
The higher courts of the land have verified what is true.
How much evil and vindictiveness a...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, america, patriotic, political,
Form: Terza Rima
Costs of Freedom
...The value of individual freedom
seems impossible to quantify
without at least knowing,
What is this freedom for?
What is this freeing political and economic purpose?
Will my freedom
and you...
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Categories:
vindictiveness, culture, earth, freedom, health,
Form: Political Verse
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