Deterrents Poems - Poems about Deterrents

Too Much of a Bad Thing

...


Like herbicides and pesticides
and other chemical deterrents advertized
to keep certain foods looking perfect
and free of any blemish or defect
will in time (like any other crime)
increase...

Here’s what I should have done

...
I should have heard all the indications that the level of danger was low; no shots fired, no weapons, no anger or injuries, and no screaming, just a possible exchange of counterfeit currency.

I ...

Evaporating promises

...Diplomacy can be a fig leaf for surrender
A wolf agrees to postpone the dismember
If you want peace, prepare for war
Peacetime is what aggressors use it for.

Countries have interests, leaders h...

Too much of a good thing sniffed

...The farmer looked on sown fields with dismay,
Be-spotted with tiny holes in despoiled array.
Each spot where mice had dug up and eaten.
Wheat seeds sown with mice-controls well beaten.

The farm...

Maelstrom

...Midst mild and wild tumults like eddy, vortex, swirl, and whirl,
A maelstrom is a summation of curl and twirl and hurl;
Weather and season get amalgamated with currents,
Winds, storms, gales, squa...

Advice From a Zooplankton

...Like a shy zooplankton, I float along
          Carried by fierce currents.
      I struggle but fear makes for strong,
                    harsh deterrents

This life feels microscopic, the dri...

Of Fatalism

...*Image of Pendulum by Pixabay.

Of Fatalism

'Tis past the eleventh hour,
As time ...,
Here in the bunker,
I walked away from the Atomic Clock whose pendulum terminated its sway,
Walked I, aw...

Brightness Catches My Eye

...Tall, gray, trees stand together like statues
Across the winter’s landscape of hills
Some snow still clings to the arms of branches
Reaching wide, reaching far and wide!
Today, there is no wind i...

Ignorance Roars In Turmoil

...We are shaped from silence.
I am struck by life's upheaval loudness,
We've been sucked into the abyss.
The deterrents proceed to extensiveness.
We're still utterly annihilated and ...

Remember Suspenders

...Do you remember this?
Suspenders for a teenage miss,
Real boa constrictors,
Our  hip inhibitors, 
Teen boy deterrents,
That's what they meant,
Elastic girdles vanished too,
I remember suspende...

Aah How Great the Taste of Water

...Aah... how great the taste of water...

After lounging in bed until
late morning/early afternoon
we (the missus and I) felt restless
as garden variety buffoon
or think chrysalis itching

to e...

In Summer Re I Haint Getting Undressed

...In summer re: I haint getting undressed!

Hence donning entire wardrobe,
Saint Nick outfit including,
while trumpeting think spring
argh only about four plus months away
lest some big bird will...

Adieux

...After three decades and a kicking more,
I deem it glaring waste and blatant loss
To play sad part of second servile fiddle
In elite cadres agleam with ersatz gloss.

Whatever charged scrolls att...

Indescribable Joy

...An emotional spark
ignites desires within.
And embellished by dreams,
feelings of love begin.

Fantasies cater to
the naive hopes of youth.
And subjected to lies,
the heart aches for ...

Stumbling Over Deterrents

...stumbling 
tripping 
over bumps 
in the road 
is common 
place within this 
existence 
must learn to 
avoid these 
temporary 
deterrents 
that come up
along this 
journey...

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