Best Consequences Poems

To whom much is given much is expected, land of the free
For when His Light is reflected then all will be able to see
Yet His Light has gone away, as evil seems to tighten its grip
No longer knowing how to pray, that bitterness worsens with...

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out of everything that i’ve ever been told in my life
out of all the things that have been said to me that render me 
obligated to shove a coy smile and an aloof 
“thank you” 
into the hands of whoever was speaking, 
the heartfelt anecdotes...

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All Actions Have Consequences

I make things only to destroy them
To build them up again
Repeat the action

A point in one direction, like a mirror, points back at you
To that end
A reflection on what once was

Looking up
Indications are
The swirl of stars
Other unknowns
Out there
In larger part
At their own...

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Weary, sluggish and silent with apathy and 
disinterest, I sullenly reflect and 
languish....

My thoughts—thick and heavy like 
molasses—painfully churn and swirl in 
and out of my head and spill against the 
background of dead silence of my living 
room....

They are in constant motion, while I...

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Everyone wants the world to change today
Why not, when so many people suffer?
Even in this scientific heyday,
Everyone still thinks they’ve got it rougher

And the visionaries with their grand schemes
I hate to sound like a cynical jerk
Ask before you buy into their daydreams:
How can they truly...

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She spots a sniffling hottie by her gate 
They learn their flight will be three hours late
After a few rounds at the pub
They board and join the Mile High Club
Then the poor dame sneezed for a whole week straight 


*For Gwen's contest :)...

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C onstruction of causes often concluding at an undesirable end
O menous clouds hover over head
N oticing some circumstantial happenstance not consistently NEGATIVE
S ystematically obligated to change results
E effect becomes the antidote
Q uickly questioning motives
U nderlining reasons
E existing in riddles
N othing is ignored when the end...

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Time after time, the thief struck, 
but I could never report a loss.
Tangibles were not taken.

I knew the identity of the perpetrator
but couldn't ask for ordinary justice.
This was no ordinary criminal.

This deceiver led me down 
paths of promise to find fulfillment . . . 
for...

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In life there are choices that you must make
Now some of them can turn out good and others bad
But the way you handle whatever the consequences are
Determines the strength you have
And I can’t promise you they will always be easy. 

Some of the choices you...

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She takes the sunlight
Brings it into the thunder
Massive eruption

She delves into
Pains culmination feel
She breaks her silence

Then the mighty fall
Wrongly placed hands were the tell
Revelations true

Consequences real
Time to rid of the sins
Many hated men

It’s finally time
To set the records straight
Let them face music 

Russell Sivey...

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You never know when the unresolved past
will come back and bite you in the heart.
The results of innocent acts will last
past shelf life in the emotional mart.
Greetings not made, curt remark to a child,
a group's laughter at the expense of one,
humorous fabled memories that would
shatter...

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I Was Born Into Darkness, 
      Swaddled In Shame, 
Nourished On Negativity, 
      With Regrets, 
My Wounded Heart Beats Lame.

      With Unforgiving Harshness, 
I Welcomed Peaceful Silence,
   ...

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Take a breath just pretend to light a cigarette
Mind your every thought so that you'll not regret
Avoid a tactless comment that might go south
Remember ~ a fly does not enter a closed mouth



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on August 11, 2019 for contest ROMANI PROVERB sponsored...

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Little nothings
Unimportant
Mere slips of the tongue
Omitted truths
Slanted or tinted
Not meant to hurt

Each one 
A drop
In that ocean
Drifting them apart



AP: 2nd place 2021

Submitted on February 24, 2019 for CONTEST 565 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on February 23, 2019...

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here's to best intentions that don't always pan out ~



AP: 1st place 2025

Posted on November 6, 2019...

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