Cautioning Poems

A haiku cautioning newlyweds

...Love, like dead parents 
leaves when you least expect it
orphaning young hearts....
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Categories: cautioning, break up, emotions, grief,
Form: Haiku

A Republic, if you can keep it

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Apocrypha phantoms
Hustle flung at your plugged ears
Wretched refuse numbed






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Categories: cautioning, allusion, america, culture, destiny,
Form: Haiku


Premium MemberSeasonal Bliss

...The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy s...
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Categories: cautioning, appreciation, autumn, beauty, seasons,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR NOT TURNING AWAY OUR PRAYER

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June 24 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 66-69

Key Verse – Psalms 66:20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

PRAISE...
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Categories: cautioning, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

RIP Junior Pope

...R.I.P JUNIOR POPE

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In sombre silence & mournful melody, 
A threnody for one who passed on sadly,
Who lost his life without a life jacket,
Crashed without precaution on a speedboat.4 
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Categories: cautioning, 1st grade,
Form: Elegy


Premium MemberBells

...Bells, bells, sound of bells fall now and then in my ears,
Their tone and timbre varying, sometimes singing, 
Sometimes jarring, sometimes rising to a sweet crescendo. 
Clanging and cl...
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Categories: cautioning, feelings, funeral, Lullaby, sound,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberClouds

...Creamy white cotton puffs
Cover baby blue skies
Creative floating art
Cautioning storms when black
Colorful rainbow gifts
Cumulus wet crystals
Create contrail designs...
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Categories: cautioning, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Pleiades

Premium MemberEmpty Circles

...I circle the familiar oak, though no more do I recognize the landscape
I search longingly for any semblance of memories cross the expanse  
Darkness meant to protect erodes, the land cannot hol...
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Categories: cautioning, lost, memory, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberInitiation

...Longitude, latitude lives
we strain in this existenance
Inner exuberance, outward compliance
can we exorcise all our ignorance?
redefine our pleasuredoms to
potent people preferentials, 
delive...
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Categories: cautioning, fate, identity, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNo School For Us

...Squabbling and shouting is our normal,
not in other’s prissy persnickety vocabularies.
Hoarders, we climb over rats to get to our clothes
Others envy us this luxury

No one bathes; the bathtub h...
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Categories: cautioning, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSidney Cat

...Sidney Cat****

Here is another cat in this home’s 
trying herd, who wears his fur 
with a shiny, pretentious pride (for 
which, of course, there is no cautioning word 
to hint to him about hum...
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Categories: cautioning, allegory, bird, cat, character,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberSix Foot Instructions

...I am going to die of something the old woman said.
I won’t care about hugs or kisses after I am dead.
But today when I see my grandchild, I want some fun.
I want hugs and kisses, I want to hold hi...
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Categories: cautioning, age, america, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme

Sabbatical Dreams -It

...Twilight waved me sadly sighing, adieu,
Furling her rosy hue; cautioning me.   
Earie boardwalk creaks near the white sand beach,
But alone I dream here with piercing pains. 

The labe...
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Categories: cautioning, dream, eve, memory,
Form: Verse

Inertia

...INERTIA

I seek nirvana sitting still
to prey upon a silent cloud 
without a color save for dun

its shapes that mingle as they will
likened to a comely face
awaiting color from the sun

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Categories: cautioning, religious,
Form: Sedoka

Cancellations

...Schools, parades and lots of trips,
Cruises, flights and races;
Tennis matches and events
In other crowded places:

All are being canceled or
Postponed for times awaiting.
No one knows how soo...
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Categories: cautioning, anxiety, life,
Form: Rhyme

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