January Stress Poems

Deep in my shrewd mind, a storm rages on 
Dark clouds gather as the wind howls till dawn
A tempest of thoughts, I cannot control
A battle...

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 I needed a job to pay the bills
not knowing what I was getting into.
A telemarketing company if you can believe
selling pieces of Titanic’s carpet...

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Five days of hell
on the phone, selling lies
and pieces of the Titanic carpet.
A sinking ship of a company
with a captain who gropes and leers
and a...

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Ingredients:

~ A pint of stress
~A cup of anxiety 
~A tablespoon of guilt
~A pinch of regret
~A dash of hopelessness
~A sprinkle of self-doubt

Directions:

- Mix all the ingredients...

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Once, so long ago, in love, we did believe
A union was forged, forever to conceive
But shattered dreams and promises untold
Betrayal's wrath, our story now unfolds

With...

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Oh, how I dread the horrid sight
of that nasty slop, what a wretched plight.
Its stench invades my twitching nose
I turn away, but my nausea grows....

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the whats-and-whys
of your omissions
have me pondering-wondering

how can you not know
that you torment me
and play havoc with my mind

sweet dreams do not come easily
when my heart...

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and here we are
in our castle built from cards
one gust of wind and we go
down down down

grand illusions
mere delusions

curiosity getting the best of us
in spite...

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"When days turn longer, warmer- then it's clear.
Our spring delivers magic every year."
            ...

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Forgiving another I'm quick to do,
if forgetting is not also required.
Their echos iterate in an old queue
of actions I, alone, may have inspired.

Forgiving myself for...

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they are not obstacles
they are but opportunities for us explore



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Posted on January 10, 2023...

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Defecation clogged toilet bowl...
courtesy prescription laxative AMITIZA

and found (me) zee papa pooped out,
thus embarrassing communiqué I post,
a reasonably rhyming poetic shout
to air grievances
concerning outsize bowel...

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The Lord is on our side; once again He’ll stem the tide.
Enemy onslaught will subside.  The Lord is on our side.

Our God is here;...

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*Image of Car Stopped On A Side Road.

crossroads - hiku

long stretches
treads on
tired

2022 January 08...

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it’s simple and yet complicated
the feelings freely flow

until it’s time to put to words
and the past comes out from nowhere
 
casting its clouds over lofty...

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