Superstitions Poems - Poems about Superstitions

I once knew a man named Aloysius Hyperbolic as hell, superstitious He avoided black cats And ladders without slats He seemed to me frankly quite judicious ...

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Written 2 December 2023 A Verse Poetry Contest Sponsored by Brian Strand Do`s and Don`ts Avoid thirteenth of Fridays for any new ventures for any new businesses Skip number 13 in buildings in hotel rooms In private hospitals Be careful when driving walking or moving after seeing a black cat crossing the street Sanctify all food during an eclipse before consuming them Don`t sweep one`s home nor clip...

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Toxic feelings & thoughts Like do's & don't, taboos & aught's. Keep vaccinated against them! Like a coveted gem Is the full-suit armour of truth, A balancing against uncouth Of yours & other's reactions, Knee-jerk fears & actions. From whence are they? How do they play? Demons laughing at mind frozen, Stuck-in-the-mud, embolden. There is a bulwark for it all: Jesus Christ's clear clarion call!...

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//Superstitions// I grew up to know; // // // // That a pregnant woman mustn't be on street in the middle of a sunny day, for the foetus her stomach houses might be swapped for spirits from ancestral world. That a grown up lad that...

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What are differences and similarities between suspicion and superstition? One seems rooted in natural and sinister causes. The other in spiritual and ambiguous pauses and becauses. Although suspicion could be about grace, causes of anonymous compassion, yet of a physical and natural curious source-- Probably not metaphysically spiritually resourced. Whether suspicions and superstitions are of negative or positive or ambiguously unsettled intent, may have more to do with what we can hold and invite with an open hand and mind Than what we feel...

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If you step on a crack You will break your mother’s back. When she made us mad. It’s all we had. We would spend hours Jumping on the sidewalk crack. It never worked. So terribly glad. Do not walk under a ladder Or break a mirror. You will have bad luck From there to here. If a black cat walks across your path. You can shudder and...

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An empty chair in a muffled day, starts a self-import and falters on steps. You need the fear, to strike back, when the tracer distribution returns with a ghost. The discount will substract from the truth. I will find the zero at the end of lies. Will I concede to the barter ? Let me first taste the bitterness of victory, become drunk on your hate. Satish Verma...

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Don’t say that, you better knock on wood It’s bad to spread misfortune aloud, in front of others Don’t you know any better? Karma and jinxing are real Hey! And get off that crack, you’ll break your mama’s back It’s not so bad to spread misfortune aloud, in front of others For those who did wrong doing to me and...

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