Short Hedge Your Bets Poems

Lovers touch
Tells so much


Last light here
By the pier


No one comes
Night now sums


Love feels grand
Moon light tends


Prize sure highs
Feel touch sigh


Cool lake breeze
Grabs warm squeeze


We look out
Feel dark shout


No voice yet
Hedge our bets


Curious hearts
Frame love’s art



Leon Enriquez
14 January 2018
Singapore...

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Wit in warm touch
Can say so much


Ooze of pure oomph
Now seeds new bloom


Fun in full cast
Fond fancy blasts


Look deeper yet
To hedge your bets


Joy in clear trace
Anchors fine face


If soul can speak
Glimpse that sure peak


Go deeper then
Beyond this when


Surge in the dark
Finesse that sparks


Moments of joy
Splash of warm ploy




Leon Enriquez
30 October 2017
Singapore...

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Do you bore yourself?

Do you rent the space 
You’re standing in
Owning nothing
But default?

Do you recycle words
Until their utterance fails
Mistrusting your ability
To judge what’s right?

Do you hedge your bets
Never going all in
For fear of losing the very thing
You haven’t got?

Do you count the days
As tedium destroys spontaneity
And all energy drains
From your lifeless form?

Do you bore yourself?

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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Do You Bore Yourself?

Do you rent the space 
you’re standing in,
owning nothing in the end
but default?

Do you recycle words
until their utterance fails,
mistrusting your ability
to say what’s right?

Do you hedge your bets,
never going all in
for fear of losing the very thing
you haven’t got?

Do you count the days,
as tedium destroys spontaneity
and all energy drains
from your lifeless form?

Do You Bore Yourself?

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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