Poets seem ill advised
...By just one sharp look if she dares, defies,
You still call a woman vulnerable,
And casts lethal darts with enticing eyes.
Sure, as poets you seem inscrutable,
When conquer can she e’en gods hea...
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Categories:
ill advised, poets, women,
Form: Rhyme
Davos
...I only ask questions
most answers are with
those far wiser than I
far more erudite --
whose examples are all around
me:
poisoning of the atmosphere
greed and famine produced
battlefields...
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Categories:
ill advised, bible, faith, humanity, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Cacoethes
...Cacoethes is a word I never heard.
It must be a kind of affliction,
and now a challenge has me spurred
to render its poetic depiction.
For me, this will be a difficult task,
as my judgment is ...
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Categories:
ill advised, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
i want to move to a country of wild, grim, man-eating people
...someone advised me that i should lay low
go on a crusade
there's one next week
but what is risky
and ill-advised
is seeing a production of hamlet
on a tuesday night
we saw cats on the th...
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Categories:
ill advised, allegory, easter, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
The Fires Yet Burn
...
Our Holy Temples still burn
for we Jews have not learned
the lessons of the past
We just repeat them
We speak ill of our brothers
show anger to others
...
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Categories:
ill advised, anger, fire, history, jewish,
Form: Couplet
The Fitness Fight
...Resolved was I to exercise,
To utmost try to slenderize.
From flabby bod I'd poundage peel
To Grecian god beneath reveal.
But soon my straining torso frail
Becomes complaining, moaning male...
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Categories:
ill advised, body, change, fantasy, health,
Form: Quatrain
Graveyard of Lost Thought
...Graveyard of Lost Thought
David J Walker
There is a graveyard
of lost thought
Bad dreams
and lost scenes
And ill-advised impractical schemes
The meaningless Things
Incomplete and f...
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Categories:
ill advised, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
From Ultra Right to Ultra Wrong
...The thrust of salvation's revelation;
Straight from the buckle of the Bible Belt -
Crusading on a plan of what they felt:
"The World for Christ in One Generation."
Their causes - all so speciou...
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Categories:
ill advised, america, betrayal, faith, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Unsupervised Stop Sign
...Flirting with disaster
On this fast-moving highway of life;
Speed demons incurably infected
With the disease of impatience.
I tremble with disgust
When shaken by a fierce gust of wind
Engend...
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Categories:
ill advised, encouraging, poetry, write,
Form: Personification
The Unsupervised Stop Sign
...Alone with our thoughts, with no witness in sight,
soft whispers of our conscience wave a red flag,
contracting consciousness that we feel contrite.
Soul’s truth impulse continues to prick and nag...
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Categories:
ill advised, love, muse, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
The Hots
...i got a ghostly
mostly moist handful of you
i got a mind
that's top heavy with you
it spills over with you
leaks you
I pant like a Parisian poodle for you
my baggy saggy heart
is packed to ...
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Categories:
ill advised, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Blaming You
...I wouldn’t blame you if I died
I don’t blame you that you’ve lied
Heck, I wouldn’t even be alive to see the day and the beautiful skies
I wouldn’t blame you if you wanted to cry
Or if you d...
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Categories:
ill advised, conflict, dark, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Youtube Computer Networking Tutorials a Dog Send
...Youtube computer networking tutorials a dog send
Ideal to peruse the vast treasure trove
of lecture material
pertaining to aforementioned title
on the webbed wide world
especially gratifying t...
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Categories:
ill advised, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Is This Life
...6/27/22
Still an Atheist
I'm a hypocrite for saying this
But don't ever think it's wise
To drink and drive
Looking at it with different eyes
Looking at it with different minds
Looking at i...
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Categories:
ill advised, dark, deep, life, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Earth Life, a Hard School
...Earth life, a hard school, dark desire cesspool,
Senses externalised, all objects sized,
No wonder then, we behave like a fool,
Truth dawns, when by Holy Spirit baptised.
Ego controls thoughts,...
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Categories:
ill advised, spiritual,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
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