Best Superstitions Poems

Don’t say that, you better knock on wood
It’s bad to spread misfortune aloud, in front of others
Don’t you know any better? Karma and jinxing are real
Hey! And get off that crack, you’ll break your mama’s back

It’s not so bad to spread misfortune aloud, in front...

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An empty chair in a 
muffled day, starts
a self-import and
falters on steps.

You need the fear, to
strike back, when the
tracer distribution
returns with a ghost.

The discount will substract 
from the truth. I will
find the zero at the
end of lies.

Will I concede to the
barter ? Let me first...

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    I once knew a man named Aloysius
    Hyperbolic as hell, superstitious
       He avoided black cats
       And ladders without slats
    He seemed to me...

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Written 2 December 2023
A Verse Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand


Do`s and Don`ts

 Avoid thirteenth of Fridays
for any new ventures
for any new businesses

Skip number 13 in buildings
in hotel rooms
In private hospitals

 Be careful when driving
walking or moving
after seeing 
a black cat crossing
the street

 Sanctify all food...

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What are differences
and similarities
between suspicion
and superstition?

One seems rooted in natural
and sinister
causes.

The other in spiritual
and ambiguous
pauses
and becauses.

Although suspicion
could be about grace,
causes of anonymous compassion,
yet of a physical
and natural
curious source--

Probably not metaphysically
spiritually
resourced.

Whether suspicions
and superstitions
are of negative
or positive
or ambiguously unsettled intent,
may have more to do with what we...

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//Superstitions//

I grew up to know;
//      //       //       //
That a pregnant woman mustn't
be on street in the middle of a sunny day,
for the foetus her stomach houses might
be swapped...

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Toxic feelings & thoughts
Like do's & don't, taboos & aught's.
Keep vaccinated against them!
Like a coveted gem
Is the full-suit armour of truth,
A balancing against uncouth
Of yours & other's reactions,
Knee-jerk fears & actions.
From whence are they?
How do they play?
Demons laughing at mind frozen,
Stuck-in-the-mud, embolden.
There is a bulwark...

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If you step on a crack 
You will break your mother’s back.
When she made us mad.
It’s all we had.

We would spend hours
Jumping on the sidewalk crack.
It never worked.
So terribly glad.

Do not walk under a ladder
Or break a mirror.
You will have bad luck
From there to here.

If...

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