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Controllable Poems - Poems about Controllable

Unstoppable Force
...One foot in front of the other, Listening to the Mother. Rumbling and tumbling, Through the water. And thought about, The path it sought. Since it began, A trickle in the sand. ......

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Categories: controllable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Till in the End it Takes you
...My intellect is what helps me. I can jump into the purely rational space and deal.  But it's very lonely.  I lived like that for years at a time.  And, we sometimes love an idealized version ......

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Categories: controllable, age, bereavement, feelings, recovery
Form: Free verse



Pretty Flamingo
...They past is another country But as life moves on It’s good sometimes to recall Once good times long gone. I called her my Pretty Flamingo, The current Manfred Mann song, Straight and slim and ......

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Categories: controllable, desire, love, passion, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Control the Controllable
...Steer the reins of what's within your grasp, Decipher with clarity, thoughts amassed, A cognitive shift, profound and vast, Transformation blooms, the die is cast. Anxieties and stresses fade f......

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Categories: controllable, change, conflict, courage, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Sword of Mischief Is Ready
...Nick's sword of mischief is ready, The thrusts to be ever steady For those he is sure are heady, Now controllable, soon an eddy... Nick's challengers need steely sword, Until they accept a Mad......

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Categories: controllable, bullying, character, conflict, evil,
Form: Rhyme



Living In Silent Fear
...The absent minded, the fools, the liars Filtering all things of what we're fed Tortured without sense behind desks conspired Checks are bouncing off the chest of the dead ......

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Categories: controllable, corruption, people, political, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Alpha and Master Beta
...Mr Alpha and Master Beta here to put you in your place after all they know much better than you with your stupid face Too much time on their hands noting you and your ability challenge ......

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Categories: controllable, people,
Form: Rhyme
With Flood Shedding Blood
...It was their own way of shedding blood: Their backs turning to a surging flood, Until it warranted the Ark of Noah Or left survivors a preventable fewer … To rain-boots sticking, publishing no fe......

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Categories: controllable, change, community, confusion, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Restaurant Reapings 3
...Aware of my attention to her as well as my proximate presence, she went on in a steadily refined rhythm, neither upset nor uplifted, holding my slick sight at reducible ductility and scotching its sn......

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Categories: controllable, inspirational, writing,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Playground
...Great moments in childhood THE PLAYGROUND. Responsible for bumps, bruises, broken bones busted egos Redeemed by spontaneous acts of wisdom retaliation, retribution and mercy. THE “JUNGLE ......

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Categories: controllable, growing up,
Form: Free verse
The Battle
...We carry the past with us We frantically try to predict the upcoming years Our minds are vociferously occupied Filled with delusional neurotic fear To detach from our emotions Modern man might......

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Categories: controllable, anxiety, conflict, courage, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surface Depth
...We relate to God with surface depth... thus remaining profoundly distant from the unlimited breadth and scope of spirit... when wrongly considering, we confound immortal, never sleeping, ......

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Categories: controllable, humanity, identity, philosophy, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Middle Child Syndrome
...When I was 4 1/2 years old, as abrupt as a spanking, my once reliable mother brought home a hospital surprise with an alien face and a blood-darkened eerie belly clip that was to suddenly......

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Categories: controllable, absence, childhood, me, memory,
Form: Prose
Control the Controllable
...Control the controllable Discernment well defined A profound cognitive shift Radical transformation – it’s all in the mind Stress - anxiety The fear of the unknown The weight of the emotions ......

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Categories: controllable, addiction, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Back To Her Youth By Margo Channing
...She is aware of distance, a distance that replaces smooth with wrinkle, that adds weight to where it once fell away, a distance as controllable as a storm, as time itself. It feels likes a rope......

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Categories: controllable, age,
Form: Free verse

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