Best Nip In The Bud Poems

From ‘Albions distant shores’
I heard the howling and growling and laughing; 
My extra-sensory circuit received
 Signals of the engineering of villains vile.
Texted I frequently –...

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Fitness guru (grew)
     to an abrupt screeching halt,
     i.e. did dramatically abate,
whence significant block of time,
 ...

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THE CARE OF A ROSE
(A Crash Course)

Lesson One
(Undone)

Today we begin
Not a sin
Not to know
Roses grow
(Who will sow?)
*
A knot
A vine
A pass
In time
(Who will go?)

It starts with...

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Speak the truth with intent to be helpful
Praise more, criticise less, with smile beautiful 
Reach out often, rekindling past moments colourful
Empathise without attempting to weigh...

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THE CARE OF A ROSE
(A Crash Course)

Lesson One
(Undone)

Today we begin
Not a sin
Not to know
Roses grow
(Who will sow?)
*
A knot
A vine
A pass
In time
(Who will go?)

It starts with...

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understanding lacks her mysteries
all in my head
what wonder asunder?
a complex calibration
with my ego.
all in jest!
but, is it really?
what is the nip in the bud?
my rose?
my...

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We take no prisoners, for if they escape,
fears and desires may burrow deep in our mind
and then in stupor we will foolishly ape
suggestions proffered that...

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Wilderness and wickedness our lives stalk
When one circumstance slips from our wheels
Other unexpected glitches talk
Defeat, nagging at our heels 

In an imminent sense of fear
When...

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a strange sense of dread builds up
we know not what could be the cause
yet it manifests and so we do recognise
our stuporous awareness that was...

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