a happening of mine to which I added an outline
NOTE: THE ABOVE IS A RECENT CHANCE ARTWORK OF MINE - created purely by a chance happening to which I added an outline to show a face
Did you roll the dice
Knowing it was your vice
For to take a chance
It had some romance
So did you go for it
Confident that you had the fit
So in the end you just smiled
No sense now to be in denial.
© Paul Warren Poetry
Take a chance and enter silence
Hold still on sacred ground
Resting flow of thought violence
Let throb of bliss astound
Within our heart, dwells God
Tip toe therein unshod
Wonderstruck soul is awed
To advance
Take a chance
an open door
and love awaits
out there somewhere
AP: Honorable Mention 2023
COULD YOU TAKE A CHANCE?
If you would take a chance on me
And trust me to be true to you,
I’d never let you down you’d see.
If you would take a chance on me
My love would always constant be.
I’d never look for pastures new
If you would take a chance on me
And trust me to be true to you,
To know who we are, plunge into the void
Take the chance dear soul, trusting God alone
For too long we’ve been by false pride decoyed
To know who we are, plunge into the void
In time stretched stillness, desires are destroyed
We’re living light, not its shadowy clone
To know who we are, plunge into the void
Take the chance dear soul, trusting God alone
24-December-2022
Chance Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Julia Ward
Take a chance the new employee said; the entire room laughed.
She is the Evel Knievel of our company, someone informed him.
As a newcomer, he was arrogant and a tad bit mean.
He never got to meet the real me, so he never knew.
I take a chance every opportunity that comes my way.
I am the one who invests in the craziest things imaginable.
I stick my neck out, daring the guillotine to come down.
If he had not been so pompous, he might have gotten to know me.
But he was a misogamist, and I have no room for these people.
So I did not get to know him and he did not get to know me.
He is really great once you get to know him, someone told me.
Additional proof that she is the worst judge of character I know.
DARE AND TAKE A CHANCE
A few years ago, I could hardly wait to retire and just relax and get away
from the hustle and bustle of a hectic, flustering, demanding state job.
However, my mind that runs a hundred miles an hour would not let me
relax to challenge myself, gain more knowledge, be creative for life is a
daring adventure and creating yourself and in doing so dare to live your life
at it’s fullest and take a chance to create your own happiness for it is a choice.
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Your goodliness and Godliness parades around in my head
and makes me scoff.
I used to be that way too but the devil came by with her enticing ways.
She had such a convincing spiel, I followed her gladly.
Understanding now that the sinner part of me is more fun than not.
Do you want to be stagnant? Stale? Left in the dirt?
An old maid or worse?
Your prissy ways and persnickety attitude
is going to cause you to petrify.
You will never experience the little death if you remain on this track.
Come play with me, hear the pipes? Frolic and dance; the time is ripe.
You deserve to live; eat from the fatted calf, drink some red wine.
Stop standing in the mirror of others, nurture your wanton side.
Lust and love, that’s all there is baby, and money and greed.
Let yourself have a taste of the life you crave, the good life.
They who pressure you into purity are jealous of your youth.
They want you to become moldy, green, yesterday’s bread.
Do not waste your talents, your hunger is vast
You are voluptuous, adventuresome. Taste some life my friend!
Let me help you by leading the way.....
kismet came to me in the form of a guttersnipe
I could not hate it
nor did I want to
what is it you are after? I asked.
The guttersnipe laughed.
Are you so tainted that you do not recognize a friend?
I felt ashamed.
It had been a long time since I had a friend.
At least ten years.
I do not want to be hurt, I told her.
Your walls are high, she admitted
But isn’t it time you took a chance?
And so I did.
And she hurt me.
And I began calling her mean names.
And now I am alone again
Building a thicker wall
Taller with spikes
around my heart.
Oak wears green taffeta
Dancing in March's brisk breeze
Sometimes shakes ill at ease
Are oaks in Africa?
Looking at Aquila?
An affair with Altair gee !
Oak dances with redbud
Changes partners with speed
Forsythia now is freed
When she see this wild dud
A philanderer, stud.
Tulip puts on brown tweed
No need for spring's light clothes
In the midst of her throes
Sponsor: Emile Pinet
Contest: Hexasonnetta
Date written: 03/23/45
Nonsense just for fun!
Take a Chance
Take a Chance on Lucky Lane
Yet the Road You'll Pave is Clear
Next to Do or Die there's Found
For the Show of No Go Around
Take a Break like it's Recess
The class has "Catch Up Time"
But the Bully has a Big Black Eye
And say hey "That Kids Not Mine!"
Take a trip to "Way Back Then"
The Girl and Boy Don't Have a Care
Just an Each Our Own, No One Else
For a Day of Truth's with No Dare
The Page is a Path for the Exits
But the Deal's not in a Dream
There's Always in Nowhere Else
With No Rainbows on the Scene
Down Lucky Lane there's
The "Haves" and "Nots"
It's a Ride that has No Strife
Yet the Dead End Street
You'll find You're On is
Not a Highway for a Life
How often do you regret,
Questioning what you suspect
To be an opportunity missed,
Wanting to do over, you wish
Another chance,
To improve your circumstance
Please let me try,
I won’t let this one go by
Without fear,
It’s perfectly clear
With fear,
Success is no where near
So why do we hesitate,
Is it cautiously to investigate
To insure we don’t fail,
And end trapped on the regret trail
Maybe you’ve used the “timings not right”,
But really you would like
To abandon all care to the wind,
For your hopes you have pinned
On a new plan or adventure,
Opportunities now with its tenure
You never know which moment will change your life,
Or the opportunity that comes around just right
But everyday you have that chance,
That person in you, to enhance
So others see,
The real me
Living without regrets,
Taking all I can get
That I want and believe,
Will only improve me.
there would be too much
anguish in just one touch-
for in loving him,
my heart would ache…
a slight chance to take
he would brisk my arm
and i would sigh-
gaze into my eyes as if
i was the most beautiful
woman he had ever seen
(prancing in fields of emerald green)
i left bereft that day in early may-
ceased my yearning to be near
an honorable man
-the ONLY man for me-
but there would be too much
anguish in just one touch…
adoration reveals tribulation-
my soul forsaken in a chance taken
________________________
February 9, 2020
life is tough
can be rough
if you need to dance
must
TAKE A CHANCE
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