Short Double Check Poems

Double rainbow 
Double check 
Zodiacal Light 
With baby birds...

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Slight bumps in the road to make us stop and double check our work and make us learn from it...

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Within each activity, just be still ~
Double-check if we’re aligned with God’s will

03-September-2022...

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Let us raise a toast
Exorcising the ghost
Fear-anger-desire
Love now our inner fire

Double check rancour
Onto which ego anchors
Emptiness magnetised
Divine bliss self realised

31-July-2020...

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Desire, the jinx, be watchful, heart
Double-check each impulse
Path is simple, add love to cart
Feel within bliss beat’s pulse

Softening attention
Follow love’s suggestion
Release our mind’s tension

We fall, we sink
Desire, the jinx...

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make a plan with zest and zeal
reinforce it with imagination 
just before it becomes an obsession 
release all desire bubbles in space

having paused the cause of movement 
double check for possible after burn
just in case the writhing snake
raises its venomous head...

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Thoughts not so quick, as mindful eye
Nipping them in the bud
Desires decry before heart’s sigh
Lest fears stain soul in blood

Double-check, doublethink
Before ego can blink
Love’s indelible ink

Jiu-jitsu trick
Thoughts not so quick

22-November-2021
Quietus ...

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Wear a wristwatch, for you may die in your sleep,
a timepiece, one with an alarm you can set.
Best not to wake up dead still locked into that last dream,
for sleep is just death pretending to be coy.
Try to dream of being at least partially alive,
aware enough to double-check.
          if death is asleep or not....

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salt flats
stretch for miles
in grocery stores
chip isle, frozen foods
seven and thirteen, respectively
reflect their shine
of white light
enticement

all organisms dried up,
fifteen per cent more, but lacking
in this pre-packaged
wasteland
where nothing ever grows
or dares to walk without
a list to double check....

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This is a warning to all my facebook friends
Double check your posts before you press send
You see I did not do this & a friend I did offend

My post was meant to say, “ you are looking Good”
Instead it said ,”you are looking Old”
Now my friend has blocked me thinking I was mean and cold

So next time, don't be like me and press send
Without double checking if auto correct changed your words
Now you have offended and have to make amends...

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They put up a sign on the highway
Which pointed the way to a bridge,
Replacing the prior one, thinking
Perhaps it improved things a smidge.

But yikes! No one bothered to proofread;
The name of the bridge was misspelled.
If I were the person in charge, well,
They’d censor the words I’d have yelled.

It boggles the mind to imagine
How something so stupid occurred.
A double-check would have made certain
Such nonsense would have been deterred....

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I’m staring at my notebook
Whose pages I’ve perused
To double-check a topic;
My muse is quite bemused.

For lately I’ve been empty
Where always I’ve enthused.
I don’t know why poetic themes
Have slowed and barely oozed.

My confidence is sagging;
My ego’s slightly bruised.
I need a jolt of energy 
To somehow be infused.

But meanwhile as I struggle,
Where once I blithely cruised,
My muse just sits there mocking
And I’m really not amused....

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Green dress on my lady
Shimmers in the bright sun
I buy all her new clothes -
I did not buy this one

She has always loved blue
This isn't blue I see
Double check confirms green
Something seems wrong to me

I admit green looks good
It gives her eyes a shine
Someone else has seen that
And trespassed upon mine

Or maybe she bought it -
Took it as her own task -
I admit I love green
But I'm afraid to ask

11-30-19
Contest: Green Dress
Sponsor: Julia Ward...

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The orange juice was being sold
At quite a nifty price.
I bought a few containers,
Feeling proud, not thinking twice.

But something made me double-check,
Since looks would not suffice,
And that is when I noticed
What I don’t think’s very nice.

Each orange juice container,
Looking normal, to entice,
Was a bunch of ounces smaller,
So I offer this advice:

When a bargain is presented,
You can always roll the dice,
But from corporate America,
There’ll be no sacrifice....

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