Short Balancing Act Poems

A balancing act
Critique with no disrespect
Too easy to fall...

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Self-analysis…
a balancing act
on the edge of disaster

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)...

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Stay in middle of road
Not failure... or God!
Work... play
Alone... socializing

Makes complete life!...

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happy or depressed
life is a balancing act
so easy to slip...
moods that fall can rise again
wait for tomorrow's new day...

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L ovng and lenient
I ntiuitive and idyllic
B ashful but sometimes brazen
R omantic and reasonable
A lways seeking answers...

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A wondrous balancing act
Everything falls into place
As two parties meet halfway
That is compromise



Date written: 07/03/2019...

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Balancing his largeness on a ball
His wideness rampant, his legs not tall
Making us smile with his balancing act.
He’s like tweedly dee, and that’s a fact....

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Life is filled with many ups and downs
The trick is to balance the smiles and frowns
It's certainly not easy
It can make you queasy
Perseverance is a must to avoid being drowned


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Overwhelming fear
Paralized by dread
Insecurities
Doubt abilities
Future not very safe

Darkness pervades
Can't see future
Lover leaves doubts
Balancing act

Love assures
He takes hand
Surrender

Leader
Alfa

Male...

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what forms shapes of thought
that understanding exists
between opposites

contradictories
languages and their meanings
negated and cleared

that understanding
exists between opposite
forms and shapes of thought


stan sand...

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The pointed tip of a knife in a balancing act?
Sharpened on the cutting edge waits on his finger,
Playing with time as the butcher looks on undecided,
When his next prey will come to challenge this fine blade.

Ages have gone by since it tasted blood in this house,
Possessed by ghost man and his ever present knife....

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Money hogs keep wallowing in filthy waste while the common folks suffer, from 
taxitis...we need a taxectomy!!

A Budget magician---mathmetician!

A balancing act---A balanced budget.

Frugal McDougal---A pennywise/wisecracker.

Cut the governments check...stop the spending!!

~~Inspired by Carolyn Devonshire!!...

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Listen to poem:

in the far distance
serenity on the surface
his strength precarious
he harbors within more
questions than answers
as he ponders the intricacies
of his balancing act
of the silence deep within
of the roar of this silence
he can no longer subdue



AP: 2nd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on May 28, 2022...

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My love is on a rope
A string from my heart
That dangles around my neck
A noose of love
That when pulled too tight
Strangles my trust

Walked like a tightrope
I tiptoe around your lust
A balancing act 
From above
If I fall there’s 
No net or glove

So I light myself on fire
And walk out on the wire
Waiting to see
If you truly love me...

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A brisk wind rattles thin branches.
A small bird adjusts its stance
feathers ruffle just enough for stability.
it gives no attention to 
this balancing act.
The bird is a wind-sailor, it has sea-legs
though it has never seen 
the wind or the sea.
Nevertheless,
it thoughtlessly has adjusted the focus
of the universe once more....

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Now, I try to lay me down to sleep.
On one foot? Hardly, is this a treat!
I see my leg scars laughing at me,
Like some drunken sailor lost at sea!

How did this happen, I ask myself!
Was I thinking of my dead husband,
Ralph?
There is no answer, for one leg Pangie!
This balancing act, hardly poetic, I call,
scroungy.

                12/6/2021...

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Speaking about what happened unambiguously
is too hard to do for several reasons.
People are fragile beings,
they need to be protected from too much.
It is a balancing act, 
walking the sharp of the blade wearing socks.
So instead you wrap words in colours and images.
In rhyme and hidden clues.
In music and dance and friendship.
Knowing it will be understood....

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Poems don’t flow freely as 1, 2, 3,
Inspiration ain’t always sweet as candy;
Creativity is the balancing act between heart and mind,
It’s the gripping stunt to strip the soul under the spotlight.

Often misunderstood as child’s play, 
But the arts has brought more peace than guns, tanks and planes;
Jesus walked on water, Moses split the sea,
Even God opts for creativity!...

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To Shaman Aboriginals
"Dreamtime" was the virginity
Of the earth
Before the dirt
Was soiled by humanity

Using crystals or their bare feet
They harness the earth's energy
To channel the grid
Over which we live
To balance and restore harmony


(Austrialian Aboriginals) 

Received 11th place in "The Shaman's Way" contest
Received 12th place in "5th poem on the soup" contest...

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Just in time for Halloween
 a big, black cheshire cat
 tip toes along the tips of the fence.
A balancing act
 executed with expertise and precision
 in every cautious step.
Until
 my dog, the guardian of the yard
 spots and challenges the talented display.
Then
 plunk, slip, plop, scatter, thrash, run.
The cat is gone
 with only the echoing bark
 of the guardian's voice
in failed pursuit....

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I watch the squirrels on the wires up high,
I call those lines sidewalks in the sky.
They sit sometimes watching the hussle below,
Every one in a hurry with nowhere to go.
They walk the wires and climb down to the ground,
Find there food and turn back around.
There balancing act none can compare,
As they walk those wires way up in the air.
Moving around,way up high,
The safest route,the sidewalks in the sky....

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which road will you Choose

there is only Three

each day all three Paths will confront you

i Caution you to ponder each course

  Good      Self       Evil

They will Beckon your Hearts Desire

your Soul intuitively perceives each outcome

Yet 

You are Master of Your  Own Destiny

     Love      Oblivion     Darkness

       Beware of Your Own Charm
 
              Mindfully Balanced

                     T R U T H...

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Annoyances add up so fast
That sometimes you might be aghast
When life does prolong
All the things going wrong
And your stress level can’t be surpassed.

For somehow when nits multiply,
Even calm people cannot deny
That each problem presents
Such a knot that prevents
Peace of mind and I’d like to know why.

I guess life’s a balancing act
And the odds against joy have been stacked.
If you’re happy one day
It gets taken away;
That’s a guaranteed bona fide fact....

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She tried to please everyone who made a suggestion.
Pretty soon her balancing act was filled with congestion.
She was standing on a horse juggling six or eight knives.
A wristwatch, a magazine, and six bunnies, or maybe just five.

Trying to please everyone was unbelievable work.
Ribbons were in the air along with flowers that gave a jerk.
She kept balancing and juggling, into the night trying to please.
A bunch of carnival helpers who were stuck on flat out “tease”....

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Alone.... in a small boat... on a vast ocean            
With her one hand, she holds the rope to a kite      
The other, she holds the chain to an anchor     
Desperately she has a tight grip on both          
Trying to keep the kite from pulling her up
way up, too high up beyond reality    
and the anchor from pulling her down, way down  
way down deep, to the bottom of the ocean		
A balancing act to keep herself afloat 		
Afloat... in a small boat...on a vast ocean...

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