Short Alternately Poems

wrapped in summer's
aura of haze
an almost full moon
alternately
bursts forth and withdraws
withdraws and springs forth
plays 'peek-a-boo'
with this nyctophiliac...

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When a volcano erupts, it can blow your mind
The most spectacular event but scary most find
Living's our top priority
Have it on good authority
Alternately, breathing shallow is also quite fine...

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Judging our tensile strength

As she furiously reams 

Nibbling away at our armor

Undeterred by wishes or dreams

Alternately pushing and pulling

Rending our world with her blast

Yanking us apart at the seams...

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Nothing really ends alternately,
reversing the life story endlessly.
Dressing own life with a passionate dream,
comes the selfishness reincarnated as a being.

The dramatic flows comes to an end,
gap between them is so wide to paint.
remembering the story is so much to take,
forsaking the past as their story becomes a fake....

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daughter, Emily says
"pa,
grape
peach
strawberry
Take and eat it with ma
doesn't taste good"
listening to our conversation
my grandson Daniel
He looks at us alternately and shakes his head
As Emily meets son Daniel
she asks
"Are you going to eat strawberries?"
Then eyes twinkle
Daniel says
"huh"
Then my daughter Emily told me
"Daddy, leave the strawberries here"....

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The routes we choose are choices.
The paths that take us to our destiny.
To save our life, we must make intelligent decisions.
on the choices we ultimately make.
We can decide to be courageous and resilient,
Or just go along for the ride.
We have the option to be kind and sincere.
Or you could be truthful and act selfishly.
We can decide to learn and be sage,
Alternately, go the stupid route and unlearn
...

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