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Foolhardiness Poems - Poems about Foolhardiness

Winter solstice 2023 in Northern Hemisphere
... 10:27 Post Meridiem Eastern Standard Time, Thursday December 21 Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive Schwenksville, Pennsylvania 40.2562° N, 75.4638° W Sunrise time: 7:31 am?(121°) Sunset time......

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Categories: foolhardiness, celebration, dark, december, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - The Unsupervised Stop Sign -
... Purple spots buzz by Chatter inside his head The air is quivering and thick - no rush "Stretch out your tongue" "why, give me seven reasons" Blessed cogs on the grandmother......

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Categories: foolhardiness, dark, destiny, sad,
Form: Free verse



Blindsided By Foolhardiness
...“... betrayal begins with trust.” ~ Phish Nothing is more hurtful than betrayal-- The traits of Cain, Delilah, Judas, Brutus; In their darkest hours they all led astray those they vowe......

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Categories: foolhardiness, betrayal, trust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cardinal and the Rose
...Unsure of the wisdom of getting married that day, the young woman stood in the garden of her groom-to-be. Rarely entirely confident of any big decisions, she trembled underneath her beautiful wh......

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Categories: foolhardiness, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Worry Knot Chokes Out the Living Daylights
...Worry knot chokes out the living daylights I know from personal experience the foolhardiness of courting, flirting, honeymooning... worse case scenario, particularly when just a wee lad, your......

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Categories: foolhardiness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Eccentric Kook's Reasonable Rhyme Zigzags
...Eccentric kook's reasonable rhyme zigzags Doggone poet laureate wannabe his index finger wags nonverbally naysaying those, who doubt mine posthumous fame and fortune, which snags eternal reno......

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Categories: foolhardiness, absence, august, blessing, cool,
Form: Rhyme
I Laid Me Body Stomach Down Atop a Grassy Knoll
...I laid me body stomach down atop a grassy knoll... here at Highland Manor Apartments earlier today Juneteenth 2022, (a pitch perfect spring day) with serious intent to read seat of the pants s......

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Categories: foolhardiness, absence, age, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Seventy Times Seven
... Feeling forlorn at being fully forsaken by His Father Christ was cruelly crucified by His own creation Yet He forgot not to forgive their foolhardiness And I am one of those impertinent idio......

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Categories: foolhardiness, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Alliteration
Winter Solstice 2020 In Northern Hemisphere
...5:02 AM Eastern Time Monday, December 21 Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive Schwenksville, Pennsylvania 40.2562° N, 75.4638° W Daylight 7:21 am – 4:39 pm 9 hours, 18 minutes Mine circadian rhy......

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Categories: foolhardiness, appreciation, celebration, christmas, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Recherche Poetic Themes Stock In Trade of Yours Truly
...Recherché poetic themes stock in trade of yours truly No surprise, rhyme nor reason, I tease out extraordinary threads, sometimes deliberately writing about current calendar day or season fo......

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Categories: foolhardiness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Childless
...Epigrams/Epitaphs Childless by Michael R. Burch How can she bear her grief? Mightier than Atlas, she shoulders the weight of one fallen star. *** Laughter’s Cry by Michael R. Burch ......

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Categories: foolhardiness, child, death, eulogy, funeral,
Form: Epigram
Epitaphs
...Epitaph for a Palestinian Child by Michael R. Burch I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide. Autumn Conundrum by Michael R. Burch It's n......

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Categories: foolhardiness, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Deja Vu
...Deja Vu Alas, we compose poetry to impress others with our brilliant brains, hapless wit, sexy bodies, or holy sanctimony. All foolhardiness if you think of it, and an exercise i......

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Categories: foolhardiness, happiness, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Leonidas of Tarentum Translation
...Blame not the gale, or the inhospitable sea-gulf, or friends’ tardiness, mariner! Just man’s foolhardiness. —Leonidas of Tarentum, translation by Michael R. Burch......

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Categories: foolhardiness, eulogy,
Form: Epitaph
Athenian Epitaphs
...Athenian Epitaphs Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Michael R. Burch, after Plato Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......

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Categories: foolhardiness, death, eulogy, funeral, grave,
Form: Epigram

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