Best Aversion Poems

I have an aversion to prejudice
Judging a pond without sampling its ice
Consorting with others eating large melons
Passersby judged as free men or felons

Women condemned as whores or harlots
While tormenting men turn the air scarlet
Then sit in the pews reserved for the saintly
Ogle the preacher’s wife...

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How do you compare to others
are you grateful for what you tend
is your life not what you imagined
is anger a childhood friend

Why tap the keys with bitterness
does illusion light your stage
what’s reflected in your mirror
how authentic is this play

Is perfection worth the measure
vulnerability for just...

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I am not a heartless statue made of stone,
nor a marble sculpture that's never known
the sweet savor of a kiss upon parted lips
nor the sensual tracings of one's fingertips.

I'm not averse to desires for which I yearn
or to the ways to achieve them all in...

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It’s pure as fresh snow 
and as pale as a ghost.
It’s the shade on the light spectrum
that I loathe the most.

A beluga whale, the milky moon
and the aftermath of bleach
and all my body’s hidden places
just out of the sun’s reach. 

It lies on unlined paper
and...

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Like diverse partners in a romantic tango
Ebbing and flowing through intricate steps,
Daily we wrestle with desire and aversion
Working in tandem contradictory concepts.
Wanting that which often repels our senses
Hedonistic pleasures do assault our mind,
Making us lust for things that are forbidden
Ethical compromises are so difficult to...

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Both desire and aversion,
cast on soul’s light aspersion,
egoic thought spirals of doom
allowing not bliss to zoom.

Habits we form, an anchor,
manifesting as rancour,
contracting joy in our heart,
till expectations depart.

Let interruptions delight,
for we see now by clear sight,
that earth life is but a test,
where love doth rise...

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Under the scorching blaze of the craving sun
The desiccated life suffering forsaken parched
Searches for a wayside tree of gratification
To provide the satisfying shade of success.

The fulfillment of deep desire of irresistible love
I irresistibly desire from the core of my heart
Subsumes seamlessly the passionate hedonism
That takes...

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darling kitties, you mean the world to me
i love pets more than people
who can truly blame me



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on December 2, 2017 for contest PEOPLE sponsored by RICHARD LAMOUREUX  -  RANKED 5TH...

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For personal addiction, I'm aware
Dealing with my desires, I must beware...
Such are arenas for daily conquest
Putting faith to test amidst chosen best.

Sweet desserts please my tongue, I do confess
Yet, flesh loathes to gain weight in the process…
Discipline for well-being should prevail
That I need to practice,...

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The cacophonous din of troubled minds,
intrudes rudely into our sacred space 
and momentarily tranquil eye blinds,
although we soon recover, by God’s grace,
choosing to release the toxic embrace.
Perhaps the immersion is but a test,
brought forth by the universe in light jest
but be that as it may,...

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Like two-sides of the same-coin are desire and aversion,
In daily psychic chores they are whole heart-mind immersion;
Desire is cause of all sufferings - Gautam Buddha claimed, 
Aversion involves heart and mind too; both should be well-tamed...!

Charming blooms, guileless creatures and colorful-scenes attract,
From glooms and pains...

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Myriad objects
Thoughts included
Appear and disappear
Some attract, others repel
Ol hermit, what do we hold dear?

02-October-2022...

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Assigning labels, good or bad to thought,
misses the point about cause and effect,
arising in ether, as desires brought,
manifest here and now, what we detect,
each wave in its right, divinely perfect.
Likes or dislikes, to portions of our dream,
an anchorage to images that so stream,
stemming from ego...

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Do I wail into an empty space
Have invisible tears staining my face
Silently scream, never heard
Writing word, after word, after word

Is the attuned ear within me
Myself I need to stop, to see
No outside force to heal my woe
Yes, this I know, I know, I know

But the...

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I mave thought on the possibilty of two of the
Main world 'religious systems' merging namely
Into a cristio-islamic entity..This would i see
Bring the action of be-heading humans used in
Certain islamic groups possibly. ? Into any creed
That might be manufactured.? I am loath to
Put this out, as...

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