Warning Poems - Poems about Warning

“No Warning” He left. No fight. No warning. Just vanished like love was a switch he got bored of leaving on. And I stood there mid-sentence, mid-heartbeat, mid-trust watching everything I believed in turn to static. It wasn’t just the leaving. It was the silence. The nothing. The way he made it feel like I wasn’t even worth ...

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Villanelle of a Metal Queen (c) 2025 by Russ Dodson I just don't know where else to start to tell you of this love of mine she is the beating of my heart these feelings that I must decline I just don't know where else to start the memories both sweet and tart hold feelings that I would enshrine she is the beating...

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My Poem of 2009-10 resubmitted for new members of Poetry Soup. Wake up O Inhabitants of this Earth ii . Wake up before it is too late Wake up before the misdeeds with Nature Takes away with them, the best And the most beautifully nourished and preserved Our priceless and most precious wealth The ice from Mountains, Glaciers...

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Bill prodded his sebaceous cyst ‘Twas massive the size of his fist It spurted green pus His wife made a fuss “Get treatment NOW, I must insist” Blue lighted to the A & E Huge spurting cyst medics could see Bill’s livid butt boil Made doctor’s recoil Needs lancing now, they all agree They bundle Bill onto a table “Don’t sedate him” said his wife Mable I...

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nude iron statues by Sir Anthony Gormley stand on Crosby beach toddler blurted out “look Grandma, there‘s his willy” I burst out laughing!...

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The Warning The Universe is bigger than you know. What you reep is what you shall sow. This hardness of heart Will tear your world apart Helpless we will watch as you go. TAH...

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A student who hailed from Bombay Eats curry for breakfast each day On pakora he’d munch As a snack or for lunch The toilet is where he must stay He suffers from dire 'Dheli belly' Shared bathroom got terribly smelly So he leased a commode Where he’ll unleash his load No studies, he poops watching telly! His flatmate said, “Listen up Josh” Your ling’ring stench means...

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When my ashes are brought home don’t place them on a mantel between the tacky Hummel figurines. Tip them out onto the backyard to nourish the cabbages. I am not coming back, but check the wind once more, I might blow into the house again and the dust-buster will clog up. Do not look for me in the sky, I am not there, nor on or...

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Shines would soon be taken off poetry, When machines replace humans as judges, By then wisdom will have fled human minds, Making AI seem more intelligent. Poems churned out will then be wishy-washy, Since standout ones will have been discarded, As machine junks — confirmed by machines, So undeseving of recognition. As more and more inferior works are praised, At the detriment of...

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My auntie, who was on vacation Was lusting for fast fornication She met a well-hung guy But her foo-foo’s too dry She blurted, “It needs lubrication!” The fella, whose first name was Dick Said, “Stay put. I’ll be back real quick I’ll purchase sticky Jell-O ‘Twill turn your foof bright yellow But ensures my entry is slick!" The Jell-O lube worked really well Dick satisfied my...

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Gunner What has woken you, Gunner? What is it you hear? Can you sense the beat of heavy engines drawing near? There’s been no alert, Gunner, the lads are all at ease. But you know something’s up, don’t you? Won’t you tell us please? I heard that little growl, Gunner, low and in your chest. Is the time right now, Gunner?...

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Our climate is warming The speed is alarming Could this be a warning Our greenhouse gases rise Polluting worldwide skies Now comes a surprise The planet is heating From our carbon burning And we’re still not learning We aim for personal gain And simply show no shame As we play selfish game But now we get the flack Nature’s on the attack The pendulum swings back We’d enough...

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For Jason and his Argonauts, golden wool was theirs to fleece For the British, Iran's oil was theirs to drill and steal In '53 the West led Iran's democracy into a tyrant's peace Now we call the trouble since all part of God's grand will So many harsh lessons are learned in winter's darkest days Only to be forgotten as...

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My dog is outside warning strangers off our property the neighbors, delivery men, me if I walk up the driveway stay away or you will be sorry, says his ferocious bark it is deep, hoarse and fierce sounding He treats us all as if we have machetes and stabbing knives until we get closer…. if we get close enough, he leaps...

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It is Saturday afternoon everybody and their uncle is in Target buying things they will put into garage sales next summer their red shopping carts are full I had brought my friend here to get a shingles shot Since she is ninety-two and has a walker, I parked her at the door I won’t be here but a minute, she tells...

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