Short Smugly Poems

There once a dare devil named Dan
smugly swung with only one hand
	forgot and let go
	of the rope in tow
sank in a thick pool of quicksand....

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I've long wanted to see
myself in truth's light,
the wrong and the right,

but fear scares me so,
pride boastfully says no,
so smugly smirking I go....

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8/29/2023

 Ah~ write  couplets, and no, nothing more.

 Then~ prance smugly out my front door?

 No, no, I just cannot do simply that!

  Will  be crazed as a hatter, who lost his hat!...

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Pray, do not rush time,
Sit smugly on the saddle
and enjoy the ride;
Just let it set its own pace,
Let it graze or run the race.



~"Syllables of Wisdom 3 contest by Silent One...

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And I thought I was the chosen one... WRONG
Someone else was ahead of me in the line all along
This disturbeth me muchly
Someone more smugly
Thought I was the smugeth ahead of the throng...

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Believe it or not, salt's been around forever
Used to preserve food, those Romans were clever
Walked around smugly
Their skies were sunny
Salt shakers on their tables, even at McDonald's...

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A guy goes into a drugstore to buy some condoms
'Do you want a bag?”cashier asks not seeing a problem
“No she's not THAT ugly!”
He answered smugly
Using his billiards experience, the last shot he caromed...

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A guy goes into a drugstore to buy some condoms
'Do you want a bag?” cashier asks not seeing a problem
“No, she's not THAT ugly!”
He answered smugly
Using his billiards experience, the last shot he caromed...

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SMART ALECK
Smugly
Ugly

CRAZY MINION
Wacky
Lackey

CRAMMED BRIEFCASE
Obese
Valise

GOOD FRIEND
Lover
Cover

BAR-HOPPING
Beaver
Fever

written September 4, 2021...

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Shadorma Poems (the climate)

Icy blue
Sky… a deep freezer
Zephyr gone
Cold wind rules
We have had our summer time
Spring is a new hope.

Pale is sun
The king lost his crown
Fall of pride
Power failed
And La Luna smugly smiles
Fear of the king gone....

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Politicos prattle
their prating rattle,
will such rantings ever cease ?
Smugly they sanctimone
as listeners,inward groan;
With theories,so unreal
hypothesising on how we feel;
Will such arrogance condescend
listen,or unbend-
or is it all just talk
sans hard yards of walk.

Trust me,it won't happen again !...

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Politicos prattle
their prating rattle,
will such rantings ever cease ?

Smugly they sanctimone
as listeners,inward groan;
With theories,so unreal
hypothesising on how we feel;

Will such arrogance condescend
listen,or unbend-
or is it all just talk
sans hard yards of walk.

Trust me,it won't happen again !...

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You should not have paid that she said.
Smugly. Haughtily. In a mean unkind ugly way.
I gave her my famous straight-lined smile.
The one I reserve for my enemies.

I would not have bought that, she told me.
Stuck up, aggressively, in a nasty, despicable way.
I did not even hear her this time.
She had ceased to be a part of my world now....

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Witness the folly of the yammering crowd

Those that speak smugly and those that speak loud

Spitting out syllables the live long day

With nothing to show and nothing to say

A chorus line of mechanical mouths

A bevy of bores from the north to the south 

Wherever you go they're standing beside us

Let's pray that they all catch laryngitis...

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I am the president of the Proliferating Society he told me smugly.
What do you do? I asked.
He thought for a bit. “We prolificate things”.
“Like what?”
We are currently prolificating private eyes.
Where do you prolificate them to?
We do not prolificate them to places, we just prolificate them.
Sounds like fun, I said. “Sign me up”, not really meaning it....

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ALL TALK

Politicos prattle
their prating rattle,
will such rantings ever cease ?
Smugly they sanctimone
as listeners,inward groan;
With theories,so unreal
hypothesising on how we feel;
Will such arrogance condescend
listen,or unbend-
or is it all just talk
sans hard yards of walk.

Trust me,it won't happen again !

re-post inspired by Lewis's contest...

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The Buddha casts no shadow
smugly seated at high noon’s
forever present moment
 
a ripple-less façade placidly
ignoring its turmoil filled depth
masked in fates saturnine smile

a somber stoic’s silent grin
mocking the wind blown leaves
amused by time’s chaos

plumply sated in his idyll
disconnected from all things
the Buddha casts no shadow


John G. Lawless
©12//23/2018...

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Coffee on the go.
Only nine dollars.
Plus tax, which brings it up to sixteen dollars.
Plus a tip for pouring it, so wave your twenty good-bye.
In the seventies, we could feed a family of eight for a week on twenty dollars.
A great deal, my millennium daughter told me smugly.
Obviously she is too well educated to have ever made 
A quarter an hour to babysit seven children like we used to....

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The smoke is rising
On the far horizon
The Eastern skies are aglow
With the countless fires,
Of funeral pyres
In numbers we cannot know,
Strange fires indeed
That burn for the need
Of oxygenated air.
And we, who stand so far away,
Are still left cold, and smugly say,
“We are here, and they are there.”
But it’s fools who stand and look on blind
At the smoke that’s carried on the westward wind.

© Barry Freeman	5th May 2021...

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The Principle of Seed Sowing
By: Miracle Man
1-24-2019 

Many endeavor to exist,
By mooching fruits from others.
Smugly sharing yours,
When they have their druthers.

But there's a lesson in life,
They don't seem to grasp.
Feeling entitled is an attitude,
From which they must unclasp.

An attitude of entitlement,
Means they've taken a knee.
But “You can't reap the fruit,
Without first planting the tree.”
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EMILY 
                             COME, SIT BY ME



                      Emily--
                           Come,
                                  Sit by me --

We’ll watch the singing chicks of starlings searching --
Searching--hopping through the plucky dawn as the blue jumps from the sky--
Never finding the treasure sought that nestles smugly under the next stone.












                                     dedicated to Emily Dickinson...

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A flickering spark between you and me–
     grating of steel on steel and I shall flee!
When my opinion is not valued, and my way not chosen,
     I feel my blood hot—then becoming frozen.

Flee from conflict, flee from differences;
     Flee from everything when comes hindrances!

I will live in my box, so shallow and cold,
     and avoid every burden and shake off every load;
so here I sit smugly and never grow,
     rooted as a weed—never fruit to show!...

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PTERODACTYL

        Watching the movie
        ‘Extinction of Flying Reptiles’,
        overwhelmed girl dreamed of
        Pterosaurs for whole night.
        Went to school with no homework.

        Confronting scolding
       of teacher, smugly answered
       ‘An ugly flaming 
        Pterodactyl attacked,
       grabbed copy, ate my homework.’


    02/06/21


     " And Then A Flaming Pterodactyl Ate My Homework '  

   Contest by John Lawless...

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