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Incautious Poems - Poems about Incautious

Premium MemberOn Leadership

...To show total lack of 
compassion and mercy
makes a person
completely unworthy
for political office.
It is no place for
the reckless or incautious.

A simple request to have mercy
does not i...
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Categories: incautious, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGhosts of Christmas Past

...Ghosts of Christmas Past

I do not fear the ghosts
of my Christmas past.
My yearly visit with each one
is a gift
a present
for this one day

I drive out to Lantzville Beach
and bring my dog...
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Categories: incautious, christmas, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLife Thrown Away

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    Of ocean’s roar, dark tales are told
      Of swimmers dragged into its fold 

    Incautious choices, foolish-bold
      Ne’er seen again, their bells have tolled 

    Of hairpin turns ...
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Categories: incautious, life, natural disasters, ocean,
Form: Couplet

Sans sixth psychic sense

...Sans sixth (psychic) sense...
poise zen dystopian rant

This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
United States st...
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Categories: incautious, abuse, america, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme

Findings

...Your bones are scattered in a boggy field -
it happens all the time.

Time is your pocket handkerchief,
your shattered wristwatch,
your best evening pants,
all reduced to insect dust.

Hundre...
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Categories: incautious, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Sad Is the Incautious Hunter

...The target keeps shifting
brains fly around, bad ideas rain down.

There should be no limit of 'takes'
for the hunting season,
for the sky is thick with dumb notions.

Some are just silly, som...
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Categories: incautious, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Time For Small Poets

...This is an age of blood;
an interesting era,
corn and potatoes rot in the fields
or are sold into slavery.
Money walks inside a Viking helmet,
Mars is rising red with anger.

This a time for p...
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Categories: incautious, poetry,
Form: Free verse

My Dream Vacation

...MY DREAM VACATION

Sharing juicy oranges on a dusty Spanish pavement
The cloudless sky offers no respite from the relentless sun
Free of time concerns, we cycle to our next ad-lib adventure
Guid...
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Categories: incautious, best friend, vacation,
Form: Imagism

Blue Ridge Nights

...Above the Blue Ridge hills
flights of stealth owl
glide in from the moon.

Strange how a jungle is never quiet
but these Tennessee woods
sleepwalk along moccasin paths
watched over by the velv...
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Categories: incautious, poetry,
Form: Free verse

They

...Imagine they find your bones
in a boggy field -
it happens all the time,
speaking of which,

time is your pocket handkerchief,
your wristwatch,
and your best evening pants
all reduced to inse...
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Categories: incautious, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShe Was Staring At Me

...Though this she'll deny
  I caught her incautious eye
staring at me, yes she was
  unabashedly

'Twas but a moment I grant
  the evidence scant
My word against hers
  in no court of law assur...
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Categories: incautious, confidence, relationship,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberA Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I

...(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions ...
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Categories: incautious, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberSelf Actualization

...SELF ACTUALIZATION

       Simple, Smart, Straightforward, Sophisticated.
       Energetic, Enthusiastic, Efficient.
       Lively, Lovable.
       Faithful, Friendly.

      Assertive on ****...
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Categories: incautious, introspection, self,
Form: Acrostic

An Elegy To a Fish

...C  aught and snared

A   nchored to a sharp hook

R   ash choice of "food"

P   roducing its' own demise


(rash in incautious of what it chooses to ingest)...
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Categories: incautious, animals,
Form: Acrostic

In a Garden In May

...beneath all the war stricken tumbleweed burrows
lies a maiden
of faith

her longbow is golden with platinum arrows
and somewhere to someone this woman belongs
her present is tainted with hints ...
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Categories: incautious, allegory, romance, war
Form: Free verse

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