Risky Poems

Adrift

Tiny and trembling,
the ant on its leaf-raft,
each ripples a new world....

The rush of the current,
and the stillness of the leaf,
are not the same...

The panic of separation,
and that haunting feeling,
of a colony left behind...

The vastness of the river,
and unknown horizons?
And home so distant now....

The quiver of antennae,
sensing unfamiliar scents,
carried on the breeze...

That fleeting security,
six legs gripping tight,
on this fragile green island...

Whatever the journey's end,
uncertainty reigns supreme,
and the weight of insignificance,
may often overwhelm,
in this unplanned adventure...

Survival is also sometimes,
a silent prayer,
that the universe might hear.

Risky

Our lives were always at high risk in that small town of loonies. 
Ironically, we still take calculated risks in cities;
Where we found our true selves, no longer need each other's pities.

A Risky Business

Love is a risky business,
It demands a level head.
You must choose a partner wisely,
Or you might wish that you were dead.

If you trust your intuition,
It should help you lead the way.
If you go into it blindly,
You can bet you'll rue the day.

But if you meet someone special,
Don't hold back the way you feel.
When your heart is fully open,
Then they'll know your love is real.

Take it from me, for this I know,
Don't turn your heart to stone.
The path will be a bitter end,
And you'll wind up all alone.

A Risky Proposition

It was a risky proposition.
yet they held no inhibition.
Then formed a coalition.
obtained the disposition.
And it became a mission.
to make the acquisition
Ancient gold exhibition.
Had the right condition.
with all inside position.
Ran Into opposition.
Hadn't figured on sedition.
Stan the finger in suspicion
put through the iquisition.
Couldn't explain his transition.
One slug the ammunition
He's a ghostly apparition.
In moldy decomposition.
It was a risky proposition.

Skiing

Skiing steep sloped slaloms one snowy week,
Knowing my courses from every stark peak.
In whiteouts of bitter blizzards bleak
Which lacked hazards to frighten me to freak. 
Nothing was too risky to stop my streak,
Getting ski heroes poled into a creek.

Risky Onerousness

R-abid
E-pidemic
C-ontagiously
A-pplies

C-oronavirus
U-sing
B-rutal
E-nemy's
R-isky
O-nerousness

Topic: Birthday of Reca Cubero (May 23) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Risky Ailment

R-isky
A-ilment
M-akes
E-pidemic's
E-eriness
Z-one
A-s

N-asty
A-ttack
S-ilently
I-nfects
M-ankind

Topic: Birthday of poetess Rameeza Nasim (May 10) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Risky Outbreak

A-void
R-abid
A-ilment
B-y
E-vading
L-ethal
L-ink
A-bout

N-asty
I-nfection's
E-pidemic

A-s
B-etter
A-lcohol
N-eatly
E-rases
R-isky
O-utbreak

Topic: Birthday of Arabella Nie Abanero (April 28) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Risky

D  elusional
A  pathetic
N  arcissistic 
G  randiose
E  gotistical
R  isky

Risky Contact

J-ust
A-void
I-nfection
N-icely
E-vading

B-rutality
A-s
R-isky
C-ontact
E-ventually
L-ets
L-ungs
A-cquire
N-asty
O-utbreak

Topic: Birthday of Jaine Barcellano (April 19) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Risky Opportunity

Viral rabidity 
dark depression closes in
egocentric
and economic
claustrophobic feelings
against overpopulated sick inhumanity,
competing ravenous clans
overwhelming individual rights
opportunities
health
autonomously-held capital wealth.

And then violently
politically explodes
internally devouring,
pregnancy rates collapsing,
eating 
and extracting
and divesting,
abusing and neglecting
our young
and old,
disabled
and vulnerably weak.

Global climate health crises
close in ego-sequestration
rumination
recusing ourselves from communication,
away from cooperative investment,
sharing touch and breath,
remembering what makes our hearts race
and slowly grow too quiet

And then non-violently explode
restoring peace of ease,
setting aside retributive justice against disease
as a secondary effect
of ecological healthy relationships
predicting unprecedented theological wealthy compassion
for Earth's global interdependent analogical climates
optimizing resilient organic wealth
of Earth's most resonant health.

Risky Opportunities

A liberal mind for love
seeks Earth's nurturing nest origins
astoundingly opportune for producing healthy ego-nutritional eggs.

A conservative risk taker,
faced with ego's opportunity
to fly away from mortal risk
to autonomous long-term, or at least short-term, self survival
or fight to WinEgo/LoseEco-Other pyric victory,
thereby sees ego's Win/Win in-between opportunity
to produce future cooperative eco-eggs
of self/other-perpetuating identity,

A narrower, conserving, view
of Earth's universal health opportunities
and a widening interdependent liberal love potential.

We might become both
ego and eco healthier,
more left non-insula nature embodied
and right amygdala co-passionate spirit soaring
to imagine
and support both physical/metaphysical views,
held most lovingly together
as WinWin eco/ego-centering integrity,
symbiotic nonfight/nonflight opportunity
for cooperatively mentored solidarity
in health/wealth mutual service

Negotiations BiLateral
and/or internally BiCameral;
Conscious
and/or UnConscious;
ReConscious memory
and/or PreConscious imagination.

The Wind

The wind

Two palm trees leaning
In silly, yet risky pose
Provoking the wind

Trump and Risky Rugs

Trump and Risky Rugs

Trying drugs that gently on poetry production tugs,
While you start seeing Trump working out the bugs,
Injury in making;
Many more taking,
After he wobbly pulled out the slippery risky rugs.

Jim Horn

Risky Attraction

(form 5-7-5 kawanagi)



 curiosity
 radioactivity
 femininity



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on March 12, 2018

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