Best Avoiding Poems

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The personal is boring
as are my ruminations on the war.
What I need to do I can't try: 
wander without shelter in the backcountry.
Or go deeper into the polity, 
join a committee or a party.

Minute by minute and season to season
I like my life but what...

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

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AVOIDING CRUEL TASK BY CANDLELIGHT - DH

her shadow quivers.
(the hemisphere of
a potted plant cool -
a divisive mind.)
she stands in the soil.

she cannot move
for she’s been caught.
her breath catches,
her fingers wrought.

cucumber
at her desk
burns in hell -

pinches
the flame

stark

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*American saying: cool as a cucumber...

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         In front of the dangerous animal
          I don't run but I don't stay close
             ...

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I watched the sailfish spring from the sea

Had no wings, an enigma to me

     Why in flight did it embark?
     
     Pursuit by a great white shark

Its sail would soon be an amputee...

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There once was a woman  named Roxanne
Who had sex with many a fine man
She charged a big fee
And made them agree
To never disclose the business she ran


For Deb's contest......

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Avoiding Stress


      When consumed by lots of stresses

      And time inevitably presses.

      The lesson to be learned I guess is,

      And prevent doing more than...

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We've all seen it and most of us have done it.
What is it you may inquire?
It's the funny things people do to avoid eye contact.
First we have " The Scan." That's when someone trying
to avoid eye contact will look at you from head to toe...

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"Patience is a virtue" - beseeched by she.
Yet thou shares not thine's endurance for me....

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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
    ...

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

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Avoiding the path to sadness

See the path
that never ends...

familiar ways 
just like a friend

winding slowly through
ancient memories...

pausing briefly
to disturb my ease

and inner peace...

that was dwelling 
in my mind...

takes it's time

walking the path...

to sadness

All my past troubles
they appear...

kill my hope
fill me with fear

Never ending
feelings of despair...

my...

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Washing coffee-stained cups, greasy frying pans and big pots is a very simple chore;
leaving a pile when turning the faucet on may clog the sink and cause a messy gore!...

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A strong cooperative offense
is our most competitive defense.

Avoiding RightRed fascism
totalitarianism
terrorism, dark secular raptures and/or terrified jihad,
fundamental Nature is sinful, negative yin repressed,
while Spirit is health invested love, positive yang,
long-term ego/eco-centric,
bilateral co-temporal,
evenly humored humanistic divinalism.

By choosing divining higher
and humanely deeper
GreenLeft/RedRight co-regenerativity
strengthening LeftBrain's historic secular case
for more...

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It is good to know what we resist,
but my best way of knowing
is by self and other showing
what we together
would more health wealthily
assist.

You might assume 
the only way to effectively resist patriarchalism
is to fight.

Turns out,
fighting may be the surest way
to already have lost the battle,
and...

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