Best Alertness Poems

a fly fell down dead
some ants stage an autopsy~
‘cadaver’ in shreds ...

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When the sun sets, The stars shine with no regrets. Darkness fills the air, The moon gives light with every care. The darkness is easier...

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A is for alertness so you know what's going on.
B is for the brain freeze you get before the dawn.

C is cardiopathy so you can...

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Give me wings so I can fly;
I want to soar with winging birds up high.

Give me wings so I’ll be free;
my soul longs, to soar...

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If no signal fires a mental wasteland blazing passion,
Angelic vibes are only found through third-eye action

You'll feel less discomfort if you're into the ideal aura...

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A new dawning 
And yawning 
Before my eyes clear
I hear 
The chirps from the birds 
Those pleasing words 
As they near my sill
Then a tap...

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A Devotion Poem, FATE
(Written for my husband, Jim)

My beloved and I, with our hearts not only 
aligned in love, but also in the empathy and...

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You don’t have to pitch a tent
Nor build a house to stay
When thousands of us wander desperate
Without a home or place to rest,
You own a...

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Written: April 29, 2024 For Regina Regina Mcintosh Contest

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Meeting her will drown...

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Life is like that extent 
     Live that moment 
           ...

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Lethal alertness - 
Tigers, lions and leopards...
The top-cats stalk their prey with
shoulders hunched high up,
belly low, grazing the grass
Pure survival depends on
deadly awareness - 
A...

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Resolutions should give voice to hope
when reason gets beyond all the trope.
Reckoning ahead to energize
I resolve to get more exercise:

     ...

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The Tortured Cuckoo

Delivered-bewildered and confused, onto a foliage. No direction from those empowered to parent so  weak a fledgling.   Clawed and pecked...

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I woke from a deep repose to intense alertness.
From the dream. I lay perfectly still listening,
to the silence.  The room was icy cold. I...

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I prey on your principles, with a thick claw stabbing through the bone,
Into the soft recesses below the layers of hardened counterfeit
I feast on your...

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