Short Suggestions Poems

Do not tell me, please
how to cut the celery
I do things myself...

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Ideas I need,
Give me topics for Haikus,
Down in the comments....

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God's ten commandments
    written in stone for Moses --
         more than suggestions

12/30/21...

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Crying embryo,
Pray that your mother has strength
Thwarting suggestions.

© July 16, 2010
Dane Smith-Johnsen...

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the
  ungraspable
     imagined
suggestions
 of
   simplicity
isolated
   latent
     haunting
the
eye
...

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Simplicity

Seems to be

Resisted by many

Believing that

Simple suggestions

Sound like magic..

Well..?...

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Prescott Bush proved his moxie
as war-profiteer proxy
with brother Harriman
since shame can't bury them
when suggestions turn Nazi....

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no more destructive

 criticism ~ positive

  suggestions only  



--Collaborative effort between Susan Gentry and Gershon Wolf...

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I want suggestions she tells me
She is a colleague at my work.
I finally make some reluctantly.
they won’t work, she says. they won’t work!...

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Dear
Google: 
please do
not turn into
another wife … 
At least allow me 
the time to complete a 
sentence before you start 
to guess & make suggestions...

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But maybe you should…..
I feel myself close down.
I despise advice.
I give her some suggestions.
Hope to annoy her
I can be a hypocrite
But not every day surely...

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Pain knocks on my heart again
I don't want to be it's friend
I run to try to lock it out
But some how
It found a way in through my soul....



*Any title suggestions?*...

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I'm in a major slump and can't get anything done.
I appear to have lost all of my self motivation.
Does anyone out there have any suggestions?
At this point I'm open to anyone....

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I offer my thanks where thanks is due
And offer suggestions to others
The former is given to yours and you
The latter to our governing brothers


Happy Thanksgiving
  2016...

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They teach, "Curiosity killed the cat"
Is there a good explanation for that?
   In school don't ask questions
   Don't dare make suggestions
Live your life just as blind as a bat....

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Depended On and Relied

On you we often depended on and relied;
Listen to suggestions that were supplied;
You I did see,
Instead of me;
Would always feel so much better inside.

Jim Horn...

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Hip hop panda is worn out from dancing.
He sits down and sighs, giving no more prancing.
We give him some tips, some pointers and suggestions.
He turns away from us, for he does not like directions....

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So you don’t love me,
I won’t cry, these are not tears.
So you don’t love me,
You  took your pleasure at will 
Laugh, it really meant nothing.





This is my first go at this form..suggestions?...

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The fragrant garden’s
	jasmine suggestions, 
	gardenia’s pungent complement.
	Listening silently to music
	of insects in the grass,
	sometimes more rapid, sometimes slower.
	Silently listening to the music...

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the
dog barks
oh so loud  
in his domain                     
and wakes up people in the neighborhood

* My first real attempt of a Tetractys poem. Please feel free with any suggestions if not correct :)...

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Suggestions

All words suggest

Nothing and

Everything

Vastness may suggest

Nothing

A wheelbarrow may suggest

Everything

Yet all words 

After it is said and done

Suggest nothing at all.....

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When I write I write in tens
Ten poems per session

Some are insanely silly
Weirdly enough, understood by many

Sometimes commenters write me ten sentences
With suggestions

When I have only written a two-line missive...

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His spider web eyes
Delicious amber caramelized
Persuasively lively
Quick with playfulness
Surrounding with curiosity
Open to suggestions
Offering her Shangri-lah
She steps into his arm gladly
Eager to begin her forever dance...

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Leaves brown and broken lay upon the ground,
Reminiscent of my scarred heart.
Slowly dying day after day.
Winter winds blow; shredding what's left.
These leaves will never be reborn.
And I...there is no salvation for one such as I......

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Soft, like solitude, silent and still
Soothing away the sorrows,
Grumbling, rumbling, suggestions
Muffled by mystery, our history –
Trembling beneath the shadows,
Quivering in life’s strange insurgences

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