January Jealousy Poems

Addiction is not a pretty word
But when it accompanies love
It has a different connotation
I want to add love to addiction
Or augment addiction to love
To make...

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Minding other peoples’ affairs or businesses
Some villainous pundits or vile hyenas are the best
In simply doing just that, comrades. They ignore
Their own problems. They leave...

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You often find in strangers
what’s missing in yourself
The plus and minus forces
their magnet strongly felt

It’s easiest to outline
and trace the empty space
Of what’s filled in...

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Let’s take a long walk
So we can have a long talk
About everything under the sun
And anything on earth, hon.

Let’s take an afternoon walk
Baby, we need...

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Victory neared but I had all but given up
Memory had slowly begun to abandon me,
Ivory towers no longer satisfied my needs
Trajectory found me kneeling on...

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Sister, leave him— do it now 
He’s cut your sails and your hair 
He’s burned a hole in your bed 
In your forest, in your...

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“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
? Sean Covey, The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens


She listens...

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turkety,  lurkety
Saul, king of Israel
green-eyed with envy shouts,
“I’ll cut your throat.”

groundless, irrational
obsessitivity.
David, the next king squeals,
“I cut your coat.”

January 4, 2020

Contest:  'Double Dactyl...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Note.....this is not autobiographical., PR hardly me!


I am so livid with jealousy, I hide behind a mask of humanism.

I make 75',000 dollars a year, but...

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WARNING: THE CONTENTS OF THS POEM MAY BE
DANGEROUS TO YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING

(Photo of the Two Lovers is available on contest site),

As any physical...

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*Image of David and Saul issued by Public Domain as it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1926.
Saul's Spite...

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I am in competition
with no one
with the exception of
myself.

Sometimes I think
life would be easier
if I were
dumb.

Maybe
if I were ugly
people would be
nice.

I
wish people
could see my
heart.

Perhaps
they might
actually...

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white snow looking for
whispers of a maple leaf
chatting with your braid

the braid turns purple
asks you to move to fire place
the snow brownish black

look at the...

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brother elbowing for some attention
an inkling of jealousy
her being too darn cute



AP:  Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on January 8, 2018...

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