Short Cautions Poems

Stray cat entity
cautions me at an arms length
therein food for thought...

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A signal for eros and love
eyes recognizing its beauty
but also cautions for danger
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For all that have been written 
Are more than enough for a bulletin 
With which we all take cautions
Masks on faces turn addictions 
As we all fight for peace 
And pray for all souls deceased
Night has come this fast
Morning awaits a peaceful blast 

Hallelujah!...

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Cautions & portions 
       Obstruction & destruction
       Rules & fools
       Obligation & deprivation
       Nervous & resurface
       Alterations & expectations 
       Voiceless & choiceless
       Isolation & seperation 
       Radical & fanatical
       Uncertainty & disharmony 
       Solitude & disquietude...

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The media's only thing we like sordelco for the pour
Where alcoves only pair theirselves for hocus pocus bhore
When all who watch heir listen more their cautions for alt time
Wear otius ferries for their trelves of cratious varied core

And take what honor's left in them
to traceous torried gore
When all that's left to face in them
is how or right they horror...

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Sometimes, my spirit blossoms like a rose
Opening up full petal to quietly reveal
Its fragrant presence in my languishing soul
And relishing the sweet scent of perfume
Beckons to me come nearer and revel
In its awesome glory.  Cautions me, too,
To avoid its sharp and piercing thorns.

Reimagined May 9, 2021
For "Nature" contest
Sponsored by Regina McIntosh...

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It is a unanimous decision
Shirley is not at our faculty meeting.
We appoint her “in charge” of spirit day – Wednesday! 
Watch out! Her teaching partner cautions us,
but she does not offer to do it.
Neither do the other twenty-six people there.
Thus, we are wearing go-go boots, miniskirts, and tassels
and anyone older than sixty has to do a handstand.
That is me. 
Serves us all right....

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Ambiguity Effect
(Gwawdodyn)

First Version

People tend to select the options 
where chance of favourable actions
are known; over an option with unknown
choice of a good outcome with cautions.
~x~x~
Second Version

People tend to select the options 
where chance of favourable actions
are known; over an option for a good 
outcome with unknown choice with cautions.
~x~x~ >/center>...

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Something inside of me fails,
It says I am undernourished and ill fed,
Something inside of me churns,
It fumes and frets for escape,
Something inside of me feels dirty,
It yearns for clean honesty,
Something inside of me condemns,
It cautions and warns acts,
Something inside of me weeps,
It mourns the end of goodness,
I feel dead as yet live,
As this very thing inside of me,
Wants to stay alive "dead"....

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Within the furthest reach 
Lie those desires
Who's name one dares 
not to speak
So seductive 
So intriguing 
So intoxicating
So indulgent 
Those private passions
Burning at the molten core 
of my soul
Luring me to the very heights
Of ecstasy and intrigue 
The expression of my desires 
Undiluted 
Uninhibited 
Unmoved
Even in their wildest tantrums
Neither persuade me 
nor cautions me
To cease.......

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Do not poke spiders, pythons, alligators or crocodiles! Mommy had said.
Monkey thought she was too cautions, always living way up in her head.
He did not even know what a python was, so he poked a stick at a snake.
Not recognizing his move was not good, until python’s tail gave a shake.
He was being chased around the world now by an angry serpent mean.
“Mommy!” monkey screeched, it was his very last heartfelt terrible scream....

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 Wind-driven, deceptive, mysterious,
cries vixen's pulsating, debauchery
with haunting arias, mesmerizing!
The lighthouse, fearlessly, captivated,
by siren's symphonic orchestrations 
shines brighter, exclaiming calamity!
She cautions vigilant navigators...
fog's mirage masquerades mortality!..


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Inspired by Nette's Contest: The Lighthouse
9/23/14  By Carrie Richards...

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Causative agent of disease
One of several variants to appease
Void of any discriminating abstractions
Interaction breeds human contagion
Distress inflamed in us by slow vaccination

Vaccine does diminish Covid effects
Antigen activity does reject
Chills that instill fear among us
Coughs that grip lungs, with expulsion dubious
Immunizations, please make haste
Never ending cautions are relentless
Ensuring man’s safety is quite precarious	....

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As the waves slow creep ashore
drawn by the lunar tug
approach the castle’s gate

crabs skitter in the moonlit surf
soggy French fries, extra salt
seagulls lean into stiff winds

a sea turtle teases the tide
a distant light cautions all
as cool mist muffles a horn

castle’s will crumble, flags fall
history slowly recede
into endless lunar tides

the castles will rise again
new flags wave in shifting winds
as the waves slow creep away


John G. Lawless
©10/7/2021...

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