Short Avoidance Poems

Fears conversation
Elaborate avoidance 
Of social outings...

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When seeing hurts most
When avoidance is no choice
Best to just let go...

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be no example

each lived day

of what not to be




... CayCay
July 7, 2019...

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I close my eyes as her knife pushes through me
For if I could see what she was doing, I could never forgive her....

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Leave
Not stay
Turn
And walk slowly away
As if said less words don’t leave
As if blank stares draw each out of avoidance
Overcasting the light that struggles hard to remain...

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Silence the music,
cease the avoidance
Turn all these games into
precious first moments

It's time, don't you think?
to fight the same war
Or maybe it's time 
to stop fighting at all...

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a year feels like forty
a crack becomes a gaping hole
emptiness swallows
hatred fades to bitterness
memories lead to tears
avoidance becomes a gnawing ache
i hate that stretch of road...

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The always amazing and unassuming
flight from confrontation fright
The rude avoidance of acquaintance
with life’s challenges with dances
How can these issues of man survive,
and still claims the balls?...

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She’s fierce with red eyes
Evoked by power of fire
Terror, corruption
Quite a sizzling hot feeling
Avoidance of normalcy

Contest: TANKA ME A COLOR
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich

5/9/2013...

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Sadness

Emotional pain—
A soulful melancholy
A sense of deep hurt . . . 
	Avoid when it’s possible . . . 
An epiphany for change!

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
November 25, 2018 (Tanka)...

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I see him
relentlessly busy
running in every which direction
scattered to the winds
anything to evade
the constant chatter of his mind



AP: 2nd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on November 26, 2022...

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Politicians
Tom’s Take
11/6/2021

Paltry
Opinionated
Litigators
Insider Traders
Term Limit Avoidance 
Instigators
Corrupt
Irresponsible
Argumentative
Nasty Temperaments
Self Centered

All are some
Some are all...

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The soot within rots and stagnates
And all I have become 
Is a garbage of putrid avoidance,
Vague as muddy clay---a leak from sewers
Unless  cleansed by  rising heart 
Free from negative energy.


Rumi Contest  11th Nov 2016...

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  The avoidance, the whispers, the fear
    of fellow Jews now daily I hear

  Do I dare walk around with my skullcap on
    If I see Palestinians, should I run

  Tonight marks the first Chanukah light
    that 21st century Jews crouch in fear, out of sight...

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Has your life
become an anthem
to those things
that you’ve fled
Did denial
and avoidance
leave you once
in good stead
Can you swear
to the heavens
you had
no other choice
Cowardice
and trepidation
the breath
—in your voice

(The New Room: November, 2023)
...

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My heart bleeds
Standing over myself
My heart bleeds
Red pools below 
Like a finger painting gone wrong
Blood everywhere 

Pictures lay out 
Smiling couple sprawled out on the floor
Silent from below
I’m not moving 
I’m alone now in this void 

It’s not suicide from a broken heart...

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You can’t give your best behind Walls
Fearful of taking that leap into one to commit to a life in hand 
Dreams are made possible by openness not from behind walls or unhealed trauma’s
My heart breaks 
I know you’re in denial of your style
Avoidance-
Is not Secure and I’m so sorry you never learned...

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Love, Justice, Wisdom and Power,
cardinal qualities of God,
raining down on us all in a copious shower.

We can embrace them all,
drinking them in, til we're soaking wet.

Or shield ourselves from them,
running in avoidance,
living life in perpetual regret.


John Derek Hamilton       November 11,2015...

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This.Illusion.Of.Separation.Is.Created.By.The.Mind.To.Avoid.Insanity.Yet.Believing.In.
This.Illusion.Of.Separation.Is.Pure.Insanity. Past the veil is a pure reality that is filled with abundance and unity. It contains the most effortless existence. However.We.Would.Rather.Complicate.Our.Lives.And.Live.In.Dysfunction....

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Hot on the heels of need
A feeling like no other
A crawling, spreading sensation
Insides leaking out 
Too painful to show
Too needy
Too sticky 
Repulsive and ugly
Overwhelming urge to hide 
Curl up; defend with rejection 
Soothe with avoidance
The bliss, however temporary, of numbness 
Until
Need is awoken again 
...

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Opportunity presented itself 
I closed my eyes
Learning seemed hard
I closed my eyes
I pushed open a door to my new start
I closed my eyes
Nothing worked out 
I closed my eyes 
Facing my reality 
I closed my eyes 
Losing the worth for which I strived
Every waking moment my heart cried
However hard I tried 
I couldn't close my eyes....

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This is a rap for all yo' gangsters,
Who wish to learn how to prevent cancer

If you see a complete change in mole,
Don't think it's all for a LOL

If you have some lumps and bumps,
Don't take it as a result of stress from that ol' Donald Trumps

If you are receiving alot of pain,
Font just ignore it and throw your life down the drain...

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he is sound asleep
did bury my dead cat (Henry) deep
then will cry and weep

no more reliance
life is full of avoidance
contains defiance

each night seems so still
when we did hear whippoorwill
on our windowsill

God always hinted
wait until He consented
then to church sprinted

we gave God a test
kill sinners who are a pest
help bird build her nest...

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Reflecting on years gone by
Hefty sorrow anchors my soul
Each time one of you left
My heart was left less whole

The world turns and times they change
I am living my new norm
I try to live my best life
Though for you I eternally mourn 

My focus is right now and onwards
With avoidance to dwell
Yet sorrow endlessly haunts me
Despite reluctantly bidding you farewell...

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The sadness inside me clings to me like glue
I saw the love
I felt it
I saw the detachment
I felt it
I saw the avoidance
I felt it
but I love her
She felt it
It hurts to see it sabotage 
Love
To be swiped away like a teardrop falling down
Splinter fragments of Love 
Painfully Piercing my soul
A slow death comes to me
As without love
I am no more 
Blackness absorbs my soul...

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