Beautiful Warning Poems

Another shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie,...

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A warning

National day, every country has one, when they are allowed
to wave their flags, get drunk, and indulge in latent xenophobia 
When the people (otherwise...

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Once walked upon this magnificent.great 
innocent earth.
Two sexes:men in slacks and women who 
wore dresses, and lovely skirts.


These couples married and created large,
families.
Worked hard, their...

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Nor shalt one mortal soul of my tale.telling.
Of my majestic life in the wondrous sea!
Dare not pen of my alluring, mystical fate
Elst,the painful curse of...

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Our beautiful world randomly hurled
Mother natures belt
Reminding us we’re weaker
From her power dealt 
Hence we must respect her
And never should we doubt
That if we disregard...

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Angel


My eyes
Inseparably focused 
On the plain, colorless canvas
And yet
Still ideating
A bright, elucidating palette,

The golden curls
Falling over the strong, pensive face
Shown glancing 
At something unseen,

“Oh,” I...

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WARNING: Saguaro

I wandered e'er so stiffly, speaking to loneliness,
Got dead to desire at the start, deaf to silence,
This remained an arduous journey of despair,
Beneath a...

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I am not a
“pretty little thing”.
My mind is dark
and my voice cracks when I sing.
 
I am not beautiful;
I have wanted to kill
more times than...

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Traveling life's murky waters,

Were these brave men.

My friends in dark jungles.

Dying for many who did not care.

Malaria and typhoid our worst enemies;

Still then, that occasional...

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"A Goodly Warning"
 by Rachel Heffington

O! Time is a faerie-maid, dark is her dairy laid:
Larders of mem'ry and amethyst lore.
But one kiss from her lips
On...

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People warn me
That as a girl,
I should be careful
Of dating guys
That aren't white...
Me being a white girl,
That is...
White girls, to them,
Are a status symbol;
Haven't I...

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Walk with me,
in this lonely world,

where hearts are casually broken,
and kind words rarely spoken.

Take my hand,
on this highway of brittle glass,

where love is traded like...

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