Short Avert Poems

Temporary loss
Need new plans to avert flaws
To get to the top....

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I exude grandeur-
but just when noone's watching
please avert your eyes...

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I felt you 
avert your eyes
cool
as the shadow
cast upon my face
when a cloud
crosses the sun

Entered in You Broke My Heart contest
17 02 11...

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We walk.
We walk past,
and we walk by.
Eyes alert,
ready to avert.
Blind to 
the man on the grate.
Wizened man,
seeking warmth,
in our midst,
separated by the stigma of his stench....

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*Image of Proverbs 7:4-5, KJV Bible Quotes by ArtStation.

Proverbs 7: 4, 5

Counsel with the known women who careth for thee,
Avert from the unknown women who flattereth thee.

2019 May 29...

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Scanning the sky, searching for intelligent life
     seeking creatures who wish to live, not die

   Finding earth, advanced civilizations gape in disbelief
     ~ avert their eyes, stricken with grief...

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My wife and I sometimes have words
But I never get to use mine, so I talk to the birds
It's a little known fact
Intelligence they don't lack
And as long as I feed them, arguments we avert...

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Watch out, don't spell “part” backward, it's a “trap”
Many men have succumbed, ended with a lawsuit in their lap
We must stay alert
Such trickery to avert
Whether part or trap, it's a costly handicap...

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Smell the burning rubber.
Hear the screeching tyre. 
Watch in awe as the wheels fly off 
and the chassis catches fire.
Then avert your eyes.
Say your au revoir.
The casualties are packed in tight
Limp inside the car....

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Gaze is hidden in shadows
Shimmering off a shallow sea
Eyes cannot avert
Like honey on the tongue
Hard candy sucked to a sheen
Warm flow covering a gravelly bottom 
Cannot soften the core 
Vanity is all that is offered...

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Indigence and torch light might be beguiling to a visitor
When he aches for his anguish to deter
Chase tension and scrutiny avert
Yet enduringly rubbing shoulders with them hurts
Amounts to additional burdens and strains exerts....

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The reminder, the shattering of my drinking
 glass
This put paid to my sleep as a
 gloss
It was only the relationship that was
 broken
Though my heart had me earlier
 fortoken
I have since gathered myself to avert more
 loss...

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Written: November 15, 2023 For Line Gauthier Contest
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finally reached
your sensitive soul
gravity pulled us down
fate tore us apart
we wrapped our love in foil
to avert its spoil...

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I think of you often.
In the morning, late at night,
but those thoughts go unvoiced,
the mortal touch goes unfelt.

It’s easier to keep to myself,
to avert my gaze deliberately.
it’s safer to keep ravenous.
It’s simpler to bamboozle with silence....

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A young woman had a panic attack
A side effect of British Railways
My wife and I went to her aid
But I struggled to avert my gaze 
From her heaving chesticles
“Big breaths” my wife instructed her
I was still staring at her puppies, said
“No, but beautifully pert would be fare”...

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Hijack


Strategy employed in a hijack
You cannot tell or crack
Each time, new clever tricks
That are a plus to statistics!
Criminals, they say, are ahead
Is it not alertness that is dead?

Mistrust even your shadow
And avert this baleful blow!!


JM

03rd February 2014...

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Your world is only dirt and hurt. Nothing more can I assert.
Another Bontsha the Silent,* from it my life I avert.
1.19.2022

* Read the short story "Bontsha the Silent" by Issac Leib Peretz to realize what you do to one another so that you may find salvation!


No comments, please!...

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The reminder, waking me from 
my reverie, the shattering of the
 cup of glass
This put paid to my revered sleep
 as a gloss
It was only the relationship that
  was broken
Even though my heart ?? had
  me earlier for token
I have since gathered my self to 
 avert more loss.

Written May 2024...

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I have crashed! Oh, God, alas!
A nosedive straight into the dirt-
To the center of the Earth,
But the High was worth the hurt...
Though my Hopes were deeply dashed,
Though my Dreams unduly smashed,
My Life before my eyes has flashed-
No time to change, to quell- avert!
(And no more strength left to exert)...

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I AM IN THE RACE
VERY EAGER TO SEE THE FACE
DIFFICULTY AVERT ME TO WAVE THE CHASE
DISBELIEF CONFUSE ME TO ABHOR THE TRACE
BUT PASSION OF LOVE GIVE ME THE PACE

THE WILL OF MAN LESS FADE
BATTLING UP HIS SPADES
CALLED JOURNEY THAT REPEATS GRADES
TWINKLING STARS BRIGHTENING MADE
THE PASSION OF LOVE REVEALS THE MAID...

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I enjoy walking in the rain,
I enjoy wet
much like men do, yet do not love it
sorry mother- I’m being vulgar again- avert
your eyes now, dear sweet innocent thing
for I did not come from rain but pure man-made sunshine, yes?
The cogs and bolts of it all, no cinnamon red
just the grey, in which you dressed yourself....

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The splintering sound, the shattering
      of my drinking glass
     This put paid to my sleeping beauty as
      gloss
      But it was only my relationship that was 
      poorly broken
      Even though my heart had me earlier 
      fortoken
      But I have since gathered myself to avert
      more loss...

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This red skin, whipped by the harshest wintry wind,
feels colder than the snow of Iceland; 
wry thoughts on a gelid night 
won't relieve my plight!
January
flee,
don't disagree!
Running and panting
to avoid an avalanche crumbling,
I take giant steps to avert danger... 
while this red skin burns deeper than my anger!...

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Seagulls cast aquarium swirls
Translucent panacea coats the day
Cloudy church  ammonites lear
A child within a Man
has choices to make
he is hastened by the wind
Cold Waterfalls
with Autumn Wheat chaff
Put your best foot forward
Unwrap your plans
To touch the earth
and see the fathoms glow
Avert your glance
to the unsprung mile...

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Tears flow like a river when I am mad
I don’t know why, being mad does hurt
Intense pain always makes me very sad
Tears flow like a river when I am mad
Or when someone I love treats me bad
It’s the kind of thing I try hard to avert
Tears flow like a river when I am mad
I don’t know why, being mad does hurt.

Written August 23, 2022...

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