Short Shunned Poems

Shunned into the she shed to smoke.
Where she speaks of the old oaths she broke....

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Opposed to lightness.


Shunned for abode of evils.


Great as absolute....

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they used to store our funds
fatten ‘em into rotunds
but when interest
got sliced the thinnest
their funds got fat, ours got shunned...

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He thought he’d be the toast of town,
Though most just see him as a clown,
Wasn’t invited to royal wedding ball,
Now not even to McCain’s funeral....

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For a week he had feigned being ill
“neath a blanket of leaves he lay still
And just for effect
He shunned circumspect
Playing dead right next to the grill

...

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Shunned by silence,
no hope at all,
There are no messages--
no texts; no calls.
What saddens most,
in this quiet end,
is I only really ever
wanted to call him Friend....

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Dogs clearly possess it
Elephants care for young
Foxes protect their young kits
Giraffe’s calves are never shunned

But can they actually embrace them?

© Stacy Lynn Stiles...

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Good ol' dependable, hardworking Janet
Is shunned like a rock from an alien planet
With a heart of pure gold
She's a gem to behold
And will no longer be taken for granite

1/24/23...

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A lonesome young mutt in Kalamazoo
Was so downcast he kept out of view
Just a schnauzer pug-mix
Shunned by smug pure-bred chicks
He’s found true love with his dear cockapoo

1/15/22...

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So solemn stunning small smelly strong sweet,
 so scary and seen shunned  shiningly sheen
... it was a stunning strikinglyscene


4/27/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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  A bright shiny quarter was rolling its way
    toward a young man with large bills to pay

  The nickel rolled by, ignored and shunned 
    ~ all the young man’s accounts were dunned 
...

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There was once a hot cutie named Finch
Who was quite a flirtatious young minx
  On St Pat's she shunned green
  And dressed quite libertine
With ambitions of getting a pinch

March 17, 2016...

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Secret Or Not?
(Snapper) 

I’m hot
Not not. 

Tell all
Sell all. 

But no
Can ho. 

Talked shop
No pop. 

Credence
Sentence. 

Then shunned
Well tonned. 

Oh well
All’s well....

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Her life
Was very hard
People shunned her a lot
Her behavior like a puppy
Jumping toward possibility of friends
Turning them off and down quickly
Alarming sensitives
Her choices made
Her life...

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There’s a haven beyond
all praise and blame,
where true writing can repose

All time on the run,
consensus lay shunned
—the truth neither friend nor foe

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)...

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Transforms the heart to a bigger size,
Raises the stakes in a relationship,
Unseals a new world for someone shunned,
Spurs confidence in the integrity of another,  and
Takes effort for someone hurt in the past....

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Laughter has run
Through the hall ways of time
Has been hushed
Has been shushed
Has not been shunned away
Yes Laughter is a language
Every human can speak
From ancient to the modern
No- laughter won’t cease....

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humming honeybees

collect nectar from flowers

shunning one of them

the blooms smile despite sun’s glare 

the one shunned wilts in despair


May 31, 2021
For M. L. Kiser's Tanka Contest Poetry Contest...

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There once was a man from Warangal
who stirred up quite a big scandal,
He loved a good girl gone bad
She was the best he yet had,
So was shunned as a hardcore vandal.


~04/26/2017
~Limerick contest by JAN ALLISON...

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A cup of tea
    half-hot, half-cold
      doesn't sit well with me

  A loaf of bread
    half-dough, half-baked
      instant tummy ache  

  A couple of buns
    one firm and round
      the other



                   shunned...

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If a prisoner gets beaten,
Who cares?
If a mental patient is tortured,
Who cares?
If an antagonist is blackballed,
Who cares?
If a prankster is shunned,
Who cares?
If people like these are mistreated,
Who cares? 
I do.

5-September-2021...

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Did they believe
Their faith alone would not grant 
Certainty in their protection

That they would be 
Cast aside
Debt of imperfection
And disloyalty
Shunned unworthy

For what only 
Amounted to
One mistake

No matter how much
They disagree?...

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In numbness I bask

Stripped of joy, stripped of agony

A vessel that’s hollow

Life’s curse, life’s sweet irony

The gods I ask

Cruel, unrelenting

Shunned with silence

Dejected, spiting

The sun sets

Glaring, mocking

Shadows are cast

The world is dying...

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I don't fear your ridicule
I fear if I believe it
I don't fear being shunned
I fear being accepted without a purpose
I fear not your judgement
Because you are not my maker
I don't fear your comments behind my back
Because you feared to say them to my face...

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What’s that my love;
As such so alone;
Blood runs cold hearted;
Publicly shunned;

Heart bleeds love;
Pumping blood;
Sadden woos;
Spiritual blows;
Publicly shunned;

Heart bleeds love; 



4/5/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2021...

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