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

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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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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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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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Not all
significant voices
are crows

there is still
a little reason
& a little mystery

in the common
tongue....

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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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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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I’m not a sinner
I’m not a pastor 
I’m not better than any man
I’m no Jesus
No Gandhi
I’m not worth it
You understand?

I’ve been away for a while now
And I need a settle down
I need a place to comfort
All the pain I live around

So, tell me can you
Just...

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A promise mitigates so many cares
Perhaps we should address one example
And just trust that its truth will be ample.
A secret shared whose recipient swears
“This matter I’ll keep under lock and key”
And silently begs, “say you’ll protect me…”
A secret (that’s not so big at the start)...

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I have done the worst
The worst I have seen
The unspeakable I have said
I have behold the 
Nakedness of the sacred
Who are the sacred?
Them, the Principalities on campus
Sacrilege became my other name
To whom did I commit this sacrilege?
Yet, all are of no consequence.


Alayande Stephen T.
3.10am
12th October,...

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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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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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