Best Consequence Poems

So often, I contemplate
                  The extraordinary consequence of being  
Beholding majesty of dawn
    In quilted colors, salmon blush and coral pink

When laced with morning...

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I chose passion over consequence
it seems that shook your confidence.

So close your eyes now and don’t fall to pieces
hide in fear of what the heart teaches.

The consequences were too heavy for you
lost all in that dull shade and hue

of the early morning, you wait for...

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She loved
too hard
and died
too soon....

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I.
One week to the day, 
His beloved was taken away.
Within the confines of their edifice
He told himself, I can’t go on like this.
Numbly, at his sides, he clenched his fists;
While contemplating, at that very moment, to slit his wrists.
He extracted a knife from a kitchen...

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——— A FIGMENT OF CONSEQUENCE

the thermostat’s kept so low ~ my amputated phantom-pained toes freeze


(c) sally young eslinger 1/15/23...

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Not all
significant voices
are crows

there is still
a little reason
& a little mystery

in the common
tongue....

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An event horizon,
Mysteries of the sun,
Love is the foundation,
Look at what we've done,
Ending our beginning,
A generation of greed,
Be careful what you wish for,
Sower of the seed....

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A gorge cut deep, the river pain,
recall a life, with some refrain.

Memories lapse to shallow breaths,
burdened by your wrongful death.

Life anew, infertile fields,
for happiness, no crop shall yield.

I miss you so, just everyday,
how life as cast, a tragic play!



In memory of my wife, Avis.
Born this...

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With a REVERENCE for nature I read the scientist's words of warning
and when I put down the paper, I felt a new CONSTERNATION
while my children ENCOMPASSED the breakfast table that early Sunday morning.
As I sat there looking at them, I was filled with CONDEMNATION
as I...

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Seeing spirals of Andromeda's dish
flinging itself towards the Milky Way;
many billion stars stuck in divine drama.
Through Gaia Observatory's scope eyes -
seems like two Ospreys warring in the skies.
Yet yields colossal change, spun at light speeds.

Seeing clearly our own old origins,
for mortals, this is how it...

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Whoever cares for the 
consequence of love?
Will merrily carry on 
loving.
She’s the one I am 
crazy about.
Her name I keep 
chanting.
My love shall always be 
there.
I promise you.
This is the season for 
heart’s that thirst 
spring.
At last is here.
In your arm I want to 
live.
I...

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C onsequence is a nasty side affect of the progress pill.
O nce initiating an action, we cast it into the winds.
N o one knows what it 
S macks into, revealing the consequence.
E ach of us initiate actions; most work to
Q uell the effect of the...

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if only i had made better choices
if only i had said no
if only i knew what and where love was
if only i had simply remained faithful
i would be sleeping in a warm, comfortable king size bed
and not struggling to stay warm under a cheap throw...

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Innocent few years after birth
Then men and women
In the earth comes human,

At easy or complex tasks in moment
Sinless or sinful actions they attempt,

To pass the grandly life in the world
To pass the miseries infested life in the world
To pass the angry, envious, greedy life in...

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years of devotion
boiling down to 
this very moment



Submitted on August 23, 2021 for contest A BRIAN STRAND 2 TO 5 LINE POETRY contest sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on April 18, 2019...

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