Best Consolations Poems

You ought to thank your stars,
you have the fortune
of having only to pay a fortune
to lose weight,
just so your waistline
and cholesterol and gluttony
you will be able to temporarily
beat.

Somewhere, many more
are not as lucky as you are;
though they don't have
bulging fats to defeat,
they're so ill-starred
as to...

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I welcome the consolations of October,
Sighs of the leaves floating gently down,
Breezes saying warm days may still come
Before the blowing cold of old November,
Portends the end of another good year. 

Written October 31, 2022
Submitted to "Bite Size Poem No. 54" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier...

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Cursive Consolations
David J Walker

Heartlessly pressing words into wine
Our feet are blood red from the crushing
Our heads flowing in faint rhymes 

Into dry riverbeds genially growing
An ocean of poetry waiting

Waves bathe the salted bathers 
On white beaches lying 
Side by side naked in the sand 


Sunning...

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Laying in my cozy bed,
I oft wonder 
why?

why am I here when others not?
those that make a simple mistake
and perish, yet I am here

a friend telling me 
“you have more lives than cats”
not a consolation to my deliriums

The plethora of experiences too plentiful
to parlay into...

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