Nobody is immune to it.
It happens when we least expect it.
Criminals have got their eye on you.
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Some penalty comes with calamity
Making you panic
Nemesis comes like crisis
Making you uncomfortable
You can't run from it
Because it's like shadow
That follows you everywhere.
It's like a fever, it makes you shiver
Making you want to run away
But you can never escape reality
The only antidote or antibiotics
Is facing it until you eliminate it
So you can regain your sanity and serenity.
All games have their rules and guidance
When you break those rules
You gonna face the penalty
Every act or action has a repercussion
You gonna face the nemesis when it's time
Be careful of the choices you make
Because you can't make them twice.
Love words, show we care, they make our mind feel like we are floating on air.
Love words, give us calm, they make our heart beat like a charm.
Love words, are so sweet, they taste like a sweet ice cream.
Love words, are like a contract, they make us want to sign on the line.
Love words, are powerful, they make us take actions and behave in a certain kind of way.
Love words, can be deceptive, they can make us do things that can lead us to death.
Love words can change our behavior, we can take actions like we are under a love spell.
Love words can be dangerous, they can make us feel like we lost our mind.
So be aware and take care, go slow, and beware, love words can feel good, but they can also lead us to negative outcomes and negative behaviors.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
Told you a hundred times.
Please... tie your shoelaces for heaven's sake!
You'll fall all over yourself !
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 3rd place 2026
Standing at the edge of a cliff wishing I could just fly,
Careful don't fall,
Working the corporate ladder trading time for pennies, some crime for benny's,
Careful don't fall,
Starring at love, but she doesn't hint back, mesmerizing to the mind you'd be lost to her trance, hypnotizing the heart oh how it beats rapid in her presence, alluding many advances, ye mistake evidence, baffling to ignore, the whole time she never once peeked back, how he seeked her attention but lacking knack, you knew, you lost sense, emotion gambling nonsense
Careful don't fall...
Pick me. Pick me please.
I want to be adopted so bad.
Take me home. Love me.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025, Honorable Mention 2025
Don’t let the Cradle
Crowd
The Cross
Out of Christmas.
Stay off the roads today
Grandma's managed to find the car keys
~ She snuck out mid nap !
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025
children of the earth
a frail shell around an egg -
broken glass and bricks
Zero sum game
Zero shame gain
A rich white man
Defining great again
Time running out
Pack and hurry
Time to go home.
Don't waste your time
It's just borrowed
Make most of it.
No room for err
If your pilot
Lives in your hands.
If priest do err
More souls will gone
Destined to hell.
Going up is hard
Going down is too easy
Careful as can be.
Stop and smell the roses
but be careful
for you may get stung.
For those bees
are not known for their taste
so you could be the unlucky one.
Good things has price
Good face treat not
To be careless.
If you flirt men
Keep your bones flexed
Careful next time.
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