Best Excuses Poems

I didn’t mean to do it, it wasn’t me that did
I wasn’t even here that day; I think I was in Madrid.

When the power went out, it wasn’t me I know
If you make toast in the bath, that makes the power blow.

I know it can’t...

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"Excuses:  A Feminine Experience"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

Oh how do I Love him....let me count the ways
But I'm tired of lying to my friends....he's just going through a phase
He works so many hours so if I just get home on time
Why do I have...

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It wasn't my fault I didn't get it done
This has been a truly horrible day
I'm telling you it sure hasn't been fun.

Oh I tried my best to do it your way
The instructions got caught up in the wind
This has been a truly horrible day

Lost from...

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I will stand up to my golieths 
no more excuses will I make
I will face down my circumstances 
No matter what it takes

We are living in troubled times 
hatred is abound
Mass killings has become a fad
Racism is on the rebound 
We are facing our golieths...

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Has anybody ever noticed
That women are built to complain
They always ask where you've been
But they never let you explain

So here's some new excuses
That work from time to time
If you ever run out of your own 
Feel free to use some of mine

I was helping an...

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I heard dawn's break through drowsy dreams   
Its silver feet upon the roof
Eaves shiver wet, excuses spring
With murmured sounds, my reason schemes

To burrow down and doze aloof
Remembering, now, a distant place
A childhood bed, the warm embrace
to stretch my arms with no regrets

And see...

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With his back against a wall of steel
caught in a silken, sticky web
the cloak of guilt fits him well
mind racing, eyes darting
excuses are born!
He finds a voice
and stammers--
"It wasn’t 
me"!
~*~...

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Darling, I didn't aim to let you down, or to leave you lonely,
I also have a frown, baby you're not the only,
I meant to hurry home, and didn't mean to take so long,
I didn't realize time had flown, please forgive me if I wrong, ...

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Excuses

…..And spewing them forth 
The  inveterate loafer
Enjoys himself,  while
The decent one feels squeamish
Even  when he’s justified.

9th Jan 13
S.Jagathsimhan Nair
For Susan’s ‘Excuses’...

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No Excuses

In the midst of the present, 
No excuses. 
Fell down, got up 
Then flight 
But the bruises ache
 As I turn the pages 
To move on, discern 
As one of lifes excuses.   

Practice, appease, try to please 
Yet I failed, Time and...

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Height is not an issue
But today I got introduced to a nasty verbal stew
It was this one bullish kind of comment
Of odium and torment

Initially I thought, it was human nature
Coming from a relative who is short in stature
The tyrant venting with a curse
A sheer case...

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If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers, would you care?
Would the peck be put in a glass jar? What if he dropped a hair in there?
And, if Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet digging
and found the jar that Piper had hidden in the...

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I forgot.
I didn't understand.
Those aren't my shoes.
My name is not Stephon, it's Henry.
I don't ski.
I have the flu.
How was I suppose to know that was your carpet?
No, that's not my dog.
Do I look like I wanna be in Cuba?
The reason I ate the last truffle...

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I was born a
Sinner
It does not mean
I have to stay  a
Sinner

Stop making excuses...

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The day was hot and reckless
And I?  I felt the same
I was feeling young and feckless
The day, it was to blame

The evening too was daring
It made me wild and brash
Drove me to stop caring
Made me heedless, made me rash

Then night time's mindless passion
Spurred me,...

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