Cautionary Poems - Poems about Cautionary

...In shadows cast by sorrow's shroud, There dwells a girl, her voice not loud, Unwanted whispers fill her mind, By kin, by friend, by spouse unkind. Alone she walks through halls of pain, In sol......Read the rest...

...Beneath the churning skies and wrathful sea, A lone man wails into swirling agony. Each crashing wave, a relentless assault, Mirroring the chaos of his inner tumult. Beneath tempestuous heaven......Read the rest...

...How can you be in the present If you live in the past? How can you move forward If yesterday is where you stand fast If history is where you erect your martyrs mast How can you expect to last?......Read the rest...

...A second ago. Yes just a second, she was beautiful beyond comparison. Not a wrinkle or a frown line. Succulent lips, glowing skin. Gorgeous hair cascading down her back. Even her hands we......Read the rest...

... **Content warning: depicts abuse (please skip to one of my more lightheaded poems if one needs to). To you, your abuse began as a game or joke, so insidious, so quietly inhumane, a spo......Read the rest...

...Religions, and other strange passions exotic and erotic and hypnotic, are at their healthiest natural and safe wealthiest spiritual best Reconnecting compassion between yesterday's remem......Read the rest...

...When Old Mother Hubbard Examined her cupboard And found not a scrap there to munch on, Not one morsel that clung To an ort or a crumb, She felt foolish and dumb And stood sucking her thumb Whi......Read the rest...

...There’s a loneliness to her style, it’s true. No sense of direction or means of success. A cautionary tale for men with no clue. With icy tone skin too pale for beauty’s cue. Thin ......Read the rest...

...SMOKERS CAUTIONARY TALE In the haze of smoke, a cautionary tale, I weave a poem of the cigarette's trail. A tale of danger lurking in the ember's glow, Of the destructive nature we all should ......Read the rest...

...The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom- Maya Angelou Reali......Read the rest...

...Once upon a time, in a castle so grand, A girl lived alone, her heart in her hand. Anyone who approached, seeking love's embrace, Met a tragic end, a sorrowful case. Her love was cursed, a bitt......Read the rest...

...She betrayed him with her lies but he decided not to tell He'd always seen it in her eyes, but couldn't break her subtle spell He was hypnotized by thoughts of love that kept him still & in a tr......Read the rest...

...Reluctant Rogue Redo? By Mark Stucky If Jonah, reluctant rogue of a prophet, had desired to visit Ninevah, instead of fleeing the other direction, how different would h......Read the rest...

...My dad took my nine-year-old hand and led me outside to look at the night sky. “I’d give you the stars,” and he meant it, but I didn’t want them, because they aren’t ours. My new telescope showed ......Read the rest...

...One day, the trees sought a king, A ruler their hopes would bring, In the land where trees stood tall, But in their quest, a cautionary call. To the olive tree, they first appealed, "Be our ki......Read the rest...