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Best Avert Poems


Avert Your Eyes
I exude grandeur-
but just when noone's watching
please avert your eyes...

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Categories: avert, humorous, identity, judgement, me,
Form: Senryu
If You Do Not Wish To See Me Naked Avert Your Eyes Now
I enjoy walking in the rain,
I enjoy wet
much like men do, yet do not love it
sorry mother- I’m being vulgar again- avert
your eyes now, dear sweet innocent thing
for I did not come from rain but pure man-made sunshine, yes?
The cogs and bolts of it all,...

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Categories: avert, angst, depression, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Three Will Not Avert the Four
Divination

Insolence

False hopes

And folly

These all the fashion

My City gone astray

If they had

Countered

The puff of

Pillow prophets

Could have averted

The dooms

I speak today.

Famine and pestilence

Rabid beasts

And swords’ blood

These swiftly coming

To men who

Thought me blind.

Peace and permissiveness

Their fruit

Of vain imaginings

Damning detritus

Soon scattered

To the wind.

Had I heard Noah

In prayer for

All their...

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Categories: avert, bible, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Avert It
Time is slowly creeping upon us and
And an awful stench  lingers in the air
The smell of death surrounds us
And an uncontrollable era besets us
quandary is twisting its stubborn head
unfurling from a vengeful distance
precarious sound whistling  in the breeze
Dead bodies decaying in the street
And...

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Categories: avert, betrayal, change, death, earth,
Form: Didactic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things