Short Admonishes Poems

with bold eyes sky sparks
                                    angry light admonishes 
                                    clouds' tear hisses quick...

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Leong (one of my roommates) squirms up to me at breakfast, in the cafeteria.

“May I ask..,” she said, looking around like a secret agent getting ready to make a dead-drop, “what contraceptives do you use?”

I thought this an odd question from someone who just broke up with her long-time boyfriend but, hey, I’m an open book.

“Isolation and despair,” I replied, which got me an eye roll.

“You’re never serious!” She admonishes me....

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As blue skies fade out of view,
mortal eyes look up to see
a glimpse of divinity.

Cerise tints the horizon;
as ribbons of crimson light
adorn the fringes of night.

And as clear crystals of ice
color cottony clouds pink;
a scarlet sun starts to sink.

An ebony umbrella
morphs into a veil of stars;
high above Venus and Mars.

And in the still of twilight;
silence admonishes sound,
as the day slowly shuts down....

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Destroying, devastating, and demanding, 
However we forget to cherish
What we take for granted.

The earth can feel the pain. 
The forest can feel the apathy of human beings. 
The ocean is almost choked by our waste.  

The Australian fire
Punishes the world, 
Admonishes the people 
To care 
To protect
The continent we live on
We breathe in and out. 

Preserving, appreciating, and protecting.   
We should recycle garbage, 
And conserve water....

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