Avoiding Poems

AVOIDING DANGER

         In front of the dangerous animal
          I don't run but I don't stay close
              nor do I show myself...

Avoiding Chores for Poetry

Avoiding Chores for Poetry

Mom’s folding laundry as muse pinches me
sheets flapping with ink scolding
I get beat from both sides

unlined bedding is blessed
the future shakes out Mom’s frown
turns it upside down when she reads my best

strike while the iron is hot and frame it
give it to Mom in present
‘fore she passes away

covered with a clean sheet
no

avoiding a drain nightmare

About toilet paper guests swipe
The staff at hotels have a gripe
They say steal it not
But buy one-ply Scott
Which won’t wipe out home’s sewage pipe

ACROSTIC 4 avoiding Divorce

Dude,
Intimacy
Values
Observing
Retrouvaille*
Counseling
Efforts


(*don't give up; look it up) :)

Avoiding Kryptonite

"He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens."
                                             

Avoiding the Police

God! Why did you ever bring me here?
I know starched khaki: how it looks like.
Cop’s pistol looks much like woman’s purse
But in its chambers not face powder…

God! What makes it sweet I should be here?
Pin-sharp eyes search me for a cheap strike:
Next, a clever charge and self I curse;
With the stench in cell room wails

A Woman Avoiding Men

Her room’s door has a goddamned latch,
Wherefore people don’t her sight catch
Seldom would open to a knock,
On that her heart ‘real igneous rock… 

Of those she’d turned down I, First Batch
While I had good shirt, not a patch 
My role to speak, hers to speech block;
Her choicest move: a glance at clock;
One starts with her,

Avoiding Herbert

life is not fair
life is a crock
life is a sham
life is a curse

everyone is out to get you
no one stood up for me
no one cares about me
no one ever liked me.

Herbert has made up his mind.
he wants me to stay and convince him that he is wrong.
I used to waste my time with this.
now I

Avoiding the Mirror

My disappointed eyes avoid the reflective cabinet in the bathroom.
They are not the eyes I remember, and yet, they are familiar.
I want to see my young, frisky, dancing, lively, hazel eyes.
These eyes are the eyes of my daddy when he was old.

On a daily basis I keep my eyes averted, and my hair whacky.
Why don’t

Avoiding Peer Pressure

blazing hot like cayenne pepper,
especially in adolescent years,
malleable youths
bend and capitulate
to peer pressure;
 grown folks take the bait, too.
it could be a simple
"try this like the rest of us cool kids!"
or just an effortless nudge of
"you're missing out!"
to descend
an impressionable youngster

down
          down
    

Avoiding Conflict

No one needs complications in their life
                   Merely living is a puzzling ordeal,
Presenting more than enough strife
                   Or at

Jesus Teaching: Avoiding Half Heartedness

Salt is good
But if salt itself loses its taste
With what can its flavor be restored
It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile
It is thrown out
 Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear [LK 14:34-35]

Avoiding Your Loved One's

You may be of anger
You may be of disappointments
You may be of guilt
You may be of on untrust
You may be on out of control
You may be busy
You may be on distance
You may be on confusion
You may be of failure
You may be unstable
You may be on stress 
Whatever it may be.
But don't avoid the persons 
Who

Avoiding the Letter of Reference

She asks me for a letter of reference.
I cannot write one. I avoid answering.
Three or four times.
She calls me early in the morning at work.
I answer and she yells at me. Where is her letter?
I tell her I have not written one, and I do not plan to.
"You have seen me teach for years!" she

Avoiding the Flames

You are in your blue period -
turquoise swimsuit, buoyant in azure.

Behind your shoulder,
Brighton West Pier,
A snap taken at an amateurish angle,
you’re diving sideways into the waves,
the gaily painted structure
tumbling after you.

A day later, the pier burnt down.  
Charred wooden bones,
black skeletal pilings stumped naked.

Vaudeville, lyceum, taproom, and arcade
once rocked beneath bunting and banners
now only

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