Reversals
You said goodbye
Like it would be a grenade in my heart
Waited for the bang
Not realizing I had let go from the start
You thought it would be better
If we were to stay here, both worlds apart
You said goodbye
But the horse had not been put before the cart
You wanted a reaction
You wanted me to cry
You wanted me
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Categories:
reversals, for her, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Reversals of Fortune - 6 Sharings
Reversals of Fortune
I. Most think luck’s just what happens, though love groks luck’s seized
by each seed that sticks (somehow) in less stone-filled ground
(which its siblings blow off or press past). That’s less luck
to my brain than ‘Casino Royale,’ where all know
odds known stacked from the start, so ‘house’ wins (called ‘fair game’).
When fools dream luck’s
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Categories:
reversals, fun, life, science,
Form: Rhyme
Exception
So much sorrow and failure I see.
All are shipwrecked in life's angry sea.
Be it illness, divorce,
rack and ruin perforce.
The exception, of course... will be me.
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Categories:
reversals, future, irony, sorrow,
Form: Limerick
Midstream Reversals
When a plant
an organism
a biological system
is young,
this is nature's season
for segregation and simplification,
specialization.
Time to ego grow internally
toward full flowering
and re-seeding maturation.
Just so,
when a plant,
an ecosystemic planet,
an individual's lifetime,
a nation-state's cultural lifeline
reaches historic maturity,
mid-life crises of climates and landscapes reverse direction,
reverse patriarchal dominance
to patriot-matriotic ecobalancing isms,
so that what had been WinWin ecopolitical recessive
must become species dominant
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Categories:
reversals, birth, culture, earth, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Reversals of Childish Thinking
Instead of listing what’s wrong with the world
Let’s list what we could do to make it strong
Childishly simple is the integrity on which we set our pride
Is it so hard not to lie, steal, cheat, defile with words
That simply are not right?
Treat others like you would want to be treated
We preach to our children
Unadorned ideas
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Categories:
reversals, introspection, life, people, philosophy,
Form: Free verse