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The Color of Anger
by Elaine Carey → (All Poetry by Elaine Carey)
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Few people are as prickly as teens who are almost grown, but won't shoulder family responsibility. I keep telling myself to be grateful, it could be worse than a messy room!

I picked up your junk
before company came
so Dad wouldn't be mad at you.
I asked Dad for your fun money
so you wouldn't have to hear him sigh,
see the eloquently raised eyebrows,
and get mad at him.
This malfunctioning circuit
sparked your ire,
you couldn't find your MP3 player
after the stash-and-run.
Your ingratitude makes me see
funny colors of red running into orange.
Next time company comes,
I'll persist
until you remove and categorize
all your expensive toys.
If angry is how I end up, I may as well
start the process and end up
with the result I wanted in the first place.
This sickening algae-colored nagging
you will never wear
until you have your own passel
of reckless, lovable children.
Beware; I'm gathering
my strength like a
tropical storm.




 


 
 


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 Reviews of "The Color of Anger"
Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on July 11, 2005
Delightfully created and shared, Bess. Thank you. Love and peace to you. Regis

Reviewed by Barbara Terry
Reviewed on April 21, 2005
yes, as parents, we need to make sure our children know responsibility. They also need to know that when a parent tells them something, it is for their own good, not ours just to be picking on him or her. Teens, are the most direspectful, when it come to repsosibilty. There are some teens who work, keep themselves clean, without being told, keep the rooms not only clean, and orderly, but there is a place for everything and everything has its place. May the Lord Jesus bless you, and be with you always, and at your side constantly. With much love in my heart, joy to the world, peace on earth, & ((((((((((MANY SISTERLY HUGGGGSSSS)))))))))), your little sister, Barbie

"If I have to be this girl in me, then I may as well be."

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on April 21, 2005
no doubt, you're going to need it ...

Reviewed on April 19, 2005
Bess,

LOL at the last two lines...reminds me of my mom saying, "I had you and I can still take you out" when I got too smart mouthed with her

An excellent write--glad I don't have kids!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. :)

Reviewed on April 19, 2005
glad i am not a parent except in my imagination! LOL and boy do i have kids out the wazoo in my imagination! LOL well done, bess!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in burleson, karen lynn. :D

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on April 19, 2005
Yes teens can push your buttons! But they grown and give grandchildren and the cycle continues :-) ........only as a grandparent when they swak you send them back LOL.

Reviewed by Henry Stevens
Reviewed on April 18, 2005
How to go. My wife and I raised three and we're all still friends. But there were times........smile. Good poem. Henry


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