Short Take The Bait Poems

Whenever a country in poverty 
but rich in natural resources
is in dire strait 
whatever is done by wealthy countries 
is only for it to take the bait...

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I can’t write
I’ve got no rhyme
I can’t even do this poem
Even though I have the time
Stupid writers block
I know what might help.
Sunshine
Whoops, it’s too late
Coconut moon doesn’t make my mind
Take the bait...

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I'm sitting here in Paradise.
Hoping a fish will take the bait.
Life to me is really nice
despite the fact it makes me wait.
Inner peace is what I'm wishin',
that's what I get by goin' fishin'!


Ralph Taylor
A Nature Verse...

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Myriad objects manifest in dreams
We know not the source, that makes them so stream
If all one, why do we feel separate
Clear light dawns, when we cease to take the bait
Then Gods glow gleams, spiritual heart beams

22-July-2021...

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Children should 
b n bed
One is not
His name is Ned

It is now
Just past nine
And we do not
Think it is fine.

The time will change
And it won't b late
But until then
Just take the bait.

Go to bed
Your name is Ned
Your brother likes
The color red...

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As Earth turns
And Sun burns
Humans in our infinite hubris
Carry on the great tradition of Icarus
Fly fly fly
Right to the edge
Saber rattling as we go
Daring the other
To take the bait
Take to the air
And fly fly fly
Ever closer to the sun

(8/6/24)
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An abomination in your eyes
My rights swept away by your lies.
Call us freaks, spread your hate
Go ahead and take the bait.
When it's over, you're gonna see
You'd kill to be a little like me.
Instead of an evil, vindictive soul
Trapped in your pathetic little boy's role....

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It’s too easy to hate 

It’s going through the motions to tolerate 

Screw tolerance 

Get off your ass and communicate 

Won’t agree on everything 

We were stronger when we chose to relate

When did we fall prey to fools and take the bait?

It’s too easy to hate
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I should never have loved in inequality.
I should never have allowed 
my heart to take the bait
of loving someone as beautiful as you.

But damn it, love is blind!
I suppose it’s by design
for, had I to do it all over again
I must admit 
I would love you
all over again
knowing…
that you can’t be loved.
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Thought tryst in lines just eight
Twirling repeat lines score
Tempts us to take the bait
Till muse tears flow no more
Teasing rhymes, easy gait
Tailored message encore
Tempest wild, touch sedate

19-January-2022
Pleiades in rhyme

7 lines @ 6 syllables each 
PS syllable counter

Write About a Form Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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Be mundane
Don't be sane
Always be lost
Give the cost
Pay for pain
Pray for rain
Suffering is beauty
Dying is duty
Don't say love
Don't look above
Ignore the guilt
Society's built
Accept the hate
Take the bait
Never think
Let yourself sink
Never care
Enjoy despair
Follow the laws
Cut out the flaws
Submit to strife
This is life...

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I love to go fishing,
And I love to date.
I was just wishing,
You would take the bait.

Out on a clear lake,
We were feeling fine.
But my big mistake,
I used an old line.

Was the same line heard,
More than once before.
With her final word,
We don't fish no more.

Now that I look back,
Don't know what to say.
She wouldn't cut me slack,
The one that got away....

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With my white pumpkin I’m going to bake 
A pumpkin pie and say it’s cheesecake
It’s “vanilla bean”
Since it’s white like cheese -
If only they’ll take the bait plate!


Unsuspecting the pumpkin inside -
I tap tap my foot, just take a bite!
With “cake” in their mouths
Their taste buds abound!
Eyebrows rising in shocked surprise! 


11/8/11
Received 4th place in "What No Orange Pumpkin" contest...

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every story has someone to hate
all must rise and take the bait

in the end they always fall
for they can’t outsmart them all

their pride is always their demise
yet in the end they can surmise

that somewhere in the vast
there was a problem they can’t get past

so they come up with evil plans
make inventions with their hands

to destroy the world they detest
which holds the problems to which they contest

they do not want to be shoved 
for in the end all they want is to be loved...

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