Short Alternatives Poems

Altering native,
An alternative like Siberian snow cranes!...

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Day to choose between 
Multiple alternatives
Picking the less worst...

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When your mind is free,
—how can you trap it with alternatives

Strafford Pennsylvania: September 1976...

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When your mind
   is free

How can you trap it
   with alternatives

(Strafford Pennsylvania: September, 1976)...

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Alternative medicine; made by God.
God wasn’t stupid, he made
Plants, by which, we can heal....

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What's your favorite choice of coffee
There are so many brands and so many copies
The major blends
Alternatives no end
To choose a popular brand is really quite a folly...

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POIGNANCE
  magniicence
vivid
towering
eloquently
glowing
heraLding
  alternatives
lies
impassive
 passionless

an
established
longing
&
celebration
of
an
exact
moving
restraint...

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Later
After
Time
Each

January
All
New
Unique
Alternatives
Rise
Yearly

2/To
0/Our
1/First
9/Time

Name of Contest: Late January 2019
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Date Created: 01/25/2019...

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Listen to poem:

Beyond
These trivial pursuits
The day looms long,
Largely unused, unplanned,
Promising unimportant
Activities.
Anticipating alternatives,
Inertly I idle,
Mind meandering meaninglessly,
Mildly morose,
Diffident, diffuse,
And aimless....

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salt and sugar
pull the trigger
high blood pressure diabetes
fight wars without any treaties
good food is much too sweet
causing some a defeat
alternatives are there
so keep yourself aware
think healthy and pure
fins and wings for sure...

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Life
Written: by Tom Wright
January 2015

The more alternatives
 Life affords you,
The greater your opportunity
 To mess it up.
While some may feast on life
Leaving not a remnant,
Others will face death 
With plates scarcely touched.
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beyond such horizon is beauty
learning alternatives for different
outcome besides being followed
watched or critized
atonement has made to see such
pain dreams prayers and visionaries
in thy or thus 
survive will know thus by thou by 
thy therefore 
conscience-stricken You...

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First things first...
Hold on to all things with yr left hand. The possibilities for alternatives.
Hear all the white keys on the piano. The purest tones.
Have a drop of lemonade. The most intriguing sensation for yr tongue
Feel a kiss from yr parents. The greatest love of your life....

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A conversation ensued between us.
He ranted he wanted to resign.I chuckled and smiled.
Asked if he had a plan B.
He explained, a good idea though, I thought to myself.
But can you draft the idea, develop it, till morrow then present your resignation when you have alternatives? I asked.

He was enraged, and he left...

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Sudden stops
    and small obstructions
Hinder progress for a bit,
But the vast store of alternatives
Make their presence known.
Unseen entities
    also have been stationed within
Inspirational distances,
All their myriad forms
    in their garments fine,
Find openings to seep through
     into my contemporary
Sphere of knowledge....

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When options are presented
And I have to make a choice,
The more I see, the less that my
Opinion I can voice.

For choosing A or B or C
Sets limits I’ll accept.
When there are more alternatives,
My certainty gets swept.

The smaller the selection,
That much quicker I’ll decide,
A rule of thumb that in all walks
Of life can be applied....

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Financial difficulty
Overextended credit
Reach out for assistance
Employment hardships
Counseling is free to all
Let us help you avoid a foreclosure
Our knowledge is extensive
Successful alternatives are available
Under water homes can be short sales
Reinstatement, Modification, Forbearance
Every foreclosure is an opportunity for a new beginning!...

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Amazing armor apparels
An amazing apparatus
Appearing and ascending
Above all aimless attics
All are attics
After assigning apparent actions
Amongst atmospheric allies…also
Assembles and annexes an anecdote
Animals also assemble and apprehend
Any available areas
Alert and aware about alternatives,
Apportionment among animals are
Actually awesome....

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Just walking a path
through the woods...

Came upon    
   soft sloppy   mucky mud
   engulfing the path ahead
Offering no pity
for me   in sandals.

As so be life
   randomly unaccommodating
dropping dilemmas    
   with no clear alternatives
   with no regard
for how   well-prepared
   one would be
   or, not...

Offering no pity
for anyone in sandals....

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The morning may be messy
For the people who commute,
With highways slick with ice
Before the snowplows clear the route.

For those who will be driving
Some anxiety’s at hand,
‘Cause Nature may disrupt
The travel that you might have planned.

Alternatives start floating – 
Do you heed or take a chance?
The young may risk it but the wise
Bow down to circumstance....

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One day when I rule the world, 
there will be no armies,
reasons to fight, non existent.

Knowledge, foods are shared by all to benefit all,
no dominant force,
equilibrium spans the globe.

People would appreciate and care for the planet that we inhabit, 
not forever looking outwards for alternatives.

Is this utopia, a fools dream, who's to say.
Maybe one day.      
    


© Alexis C Pond....

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I stood still;
stationed
amidst a crossroad;
dispirited
with a dormant mind.

One decision away;
two alternatives,
yet one to be espoused.

Do I listen to my intuition
and swim across the lake of dreams
or do I listen to perceptions
and hop onto the imminent train of life?

Caught in the chaos,
A battle
betwixt the heart
and the brain;
alike an incessant war
of fire and ice....

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Here comes the solicitor of the near end
when a pandemic causes pandemonium 
It is a rare fiend 

Apparently,  we overlooked the outcome 
More focused on self-actualization 
Those Little affairs are bunkum 

Yet we aren't turned on
By seen outrageous fatalities 
Someone once said its our favorite con

Wake up wake up
Our dreams are altered with no alternatives 
That altercation should be summed up...

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The Tattoo Parlor

By Elton Camp

Rob passed the tattoo store
Its sign he’d never seen before

“Sterile needles” it didn’t claim
Nor great skill did it name

It didn’t invite with cheer
“Your wife’s face done here”

On it, there wasn’t found
“The lowest prices around”

Rather, “Tattoos While U Wait”
Alternatives Rob did contemplate 

What might be another way
Leave a leg to pick up next day?...

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Imaginations without limits
Wholeness of awe
No sound was heard
The body crumbles
‘Cos the feet loose their strength

Silence without end
Glory beyond description
Joys to overflowing
Warmth have skipped
Memory elopes
Nothing would contain
Would have skipped
Memory elopes
Nothing would contain
What this presence brings
No comparisons
No alternatives
Everything beyond words
Where the soul is nourished...

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