Risks Poems

I Stop Taking Risks

Don't be angry, don't show that long face;
they change whenever they try to cheat,
I stop taking risks and reject this defeat:
distrust could be gone with one embrace!

I stop taking risks regardless of its awful outcome,
waiting is useless hope when it turns into delusion;
how much can be accomplished in the meantime
depend on the right set of
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Categories: risks, allusion, anxiety, dream, future,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTrust

Trust

Trust is fragile, yet so strong
In relations must belong
Of value beyond all worth
Than all the gold on the earth

Trust has high inherent risks
Often puts one in good stead
Should hidden motives exist
Relations eulogies read

Trust, like an old China plate
With hundreds years of use
E’en by King Henry the Eighth
Will always fail to abuse

Flip the plate high o’er
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Categories: risks, character, integrity, relationship, trust,
Form: Rhyme


Dave Risks Early Grave

Let us at Risk-Taking Dave
Lengthily rave 
For choosing to live in a cave
Also, The Choice of a Gorilla
That could demolish a stout slave
And wrestling Victory not release to a Godzilla …

To Risk-Courting Dave
Now in Echoing Cave
To improve on His high Octave
Mention that he’s risking an early grave
For not being The Muscularly Brave
That termites his fresh
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Categories: risks, character, death, desire, violence,
Form: Rhyme

Risks

Every bodies afraid of going into business
what happens if the company goes bankrupt 
does that mean I'll lose my home and everything else
to the debts of a bad investment

People can start limited liability companies 
companies that are seen in law
as being their own entities
company's where shareholders lose their shares

but as entities of the own in
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Categories: risks, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative

Risks

RISKS
Scarred hills, risked mine shafts, dark and deep. 
The plonk of a stone,  dropped into water, far below.
Kids drifted to sounds of the gold-rush, pick and windlass.

But inside our school, Sir recruited afternoon classes into 
battle. We piloted Spitfires, strafing Messerschmitts. Bingo! 
The plane aflame, out of control. Drifting down, down. A spiral 
of
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Categories: risks, 3rd grade, adventure, courage,
Form: Free verse


The Dilemma

THE DILEMMA

TO LAUGH is to risk appearing a fool.
TO WEEP is to risk appearing sentimental.
TO REACH OUT FOR ANOTHER is to risk involvement.
TO EXPOSE FEELINGS is to risk rejection.
TO PLACE YOUR DREAMS BEFORE THE CROWD is to risk ridicule.
TO LOVE is to risk not being loved in return.
TO GO FORWARD IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING
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Categories: risks, change, emotions, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTherapeutic Risks and Opportunities

WinLose risks
probably never disappear
for WiseElder
Left-Right codependent Bodhisattvas
messianic co-arising
ecological egotherapeutic healing
and WinWin holonic integrity wholing.

Deep learning bilateral compassion
to meet our basic needs
economic ecology
through more democratically mature
Ego-EcoPositive political fashions
and, yet again, WinWin designs.

Immature competitive adolescent strategies
become automatic normals
re-acclimating double-binds
of WinLose dissonant compromises,
accepted practice for now,
waiting for WinWin raptures
and resonance
in fullness of time.

Resonant resilience of life systems
might become
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Categories: risks, culture, games, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Belonging

If you must feel like flying
And they recommend you walk
If that smile you're wearing 
Is their most wanted look
Then, gather your books, your cat, your sweater
We are leaving this place
Than become a disaster
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Categories: risks, flying, freedom,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Vaping Ain'T Worth the Risks

Vaping Ain’t Worth The Risks

To vape or not to vape, perhaps say  the venerated Shakespeare …
If only he were alive this day , he might also got to make a choice…
Back in his Victorian times, it was probably just tobacco and pipes …
What is obvious is this human weakness is still spread far and
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Categories: risks, abuse, addiction, anxiety, community,
Form: Free verse

The Risks of Love

THE   RISKS  OF  LOVE  


It was a hostile land in those days, singing
Of our dream of a house, clinging 
To something we could believe in,
Rooted in the soft rocks so that even
The breath of the earth itself was muffled.
Precarious, tenacious, cliff-edged  -
Dwelling there for three score years of nights
And
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Categories: risks, love,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberTaking Risks

Willingly lorded by uncertainty
in a town where danger robs
all for just a good reward
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Categories: risks, adventure, people, philosophy, power,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberRelationships Between Ethnicity and Health Risks

Certain diseases seem to be more prevalent in some races than others
So with no other issues in your family health care history
You still may have risk factors for several diseases
Just by belonging to a particular ethnic group

African Americans
Have an increased risk for diabetes
Insulin resistance
Have the highest heart-disease risk for high blood pressure

Asian American
Have an increase
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Categories: risks, care, christian, environment, faith,
Form: Light Verse

Taking Risks

I’m climbing too high
And I look down below
To see I’m on top of the world
Of the love I once knew.
I never told you
That I was afraid of heights,
But I never needed to,
Because you took away the fright.
But I feel like I’m going to fall
And break once again.
I need to stop climbing
And maybe descend.
But your love
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Categories: risks, best friend, courage, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRoulette' Wheel - Taking Risks

Taking risks


Ride for a fall, we enjoy and relish,
Idea of taking risks in life why not cherish ?
Play with fire, have your heart in front,
Even if you expect to be burnt,

Put your head in lion's mouth,
It's time to prove you are worth,
Dare take the bear by the tooth,
Leave everyone surprised by your youth,

Take a leap
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Categories: risks, courage, crazy,
Form: Rhyme

Weigh the Risks

I never planned on saying goodbye
If I had it my way we'd both have wings to fly
I never planned on making you cry
But not letting go would be living a lie

Neither of us know, nor could we tell
If falling in love would turn out that well
But what could I do, I watched as you fell
Wishing
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Categories: risks, absence, fear, loss, love
Form: Couplet

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