Warnings Poems

Malevolent Forms of Warnings

Malevolent Forms of Warning

Contamination of the water
Insubordination of a teenage daughter
Co-ordination of more lambs to the slaughter 
Provocation of the new world order 

Authentication of identity required for movement past the border to be sort
Augmentation of solemnity as reflected in the afterthought 
Illustration of the ignominy while the power can be bought 
Condemnation of the

Sweet poison

Black flame
Sweet poison fumes
Etched deep with warnings clear—
Yet Dad and Mum still kiss its g h o s t,
A stream of pleasure shaped as cancer sticks.
Death  l i n g e r s  in the smoky shade,
Disguised as friendly g h o s t s,
W h i s p e r i n

Severe Weather Warnings

Long-range forecasts
predict outbreaks of pretty weather girls.
In the event of short-range predictions,
some ugly guy may be substituted.
In the case of an emergency,
mice may seek the sheltering wings
of owls and hawks.
By midnight, the total destruction
of garden gnomes is anticipated.
Survivors are asked to remain
in their bathtubs
until absolutely clean.

Drivers Who Give No Warnings

In traffic they go zooming in and out
not even indicating it at all.
When they make a lane change, 
I Just want to shout,
“Just use your turn signal, you jerk.
One day you’ll hit somebody or a wall!”

26-7-2024 Twin Cities

1.)
Slept most of my life 
Forget the stress 
The best kind of strife is the kind kept repressed 
Every guy just gotta accept we’re inclined to becoming depressed 
You’ll never cry 
Except if you gotta a good reason why 
Keep your eye dressed 
If you’re clever 
You’ll keep your tears dry 
I’ve wept without the

I feel a choir of raw throats shouting hoarse warnings and then quieting

I feel a choir of raw throats shouting hoarse warnings and then quieting,
Leaving a nervous stillness trembling on the lips of the morning,
Or riding the scrolling text at the bottom of the TV screen.
Something is wrong.
There is a restlessness seeping like mist from the lesions
Of the carnage yet to come, a slow decay,
As if all

Warnings from the Abyss

Dwell in the river and the monster will eat you
While the flakes of snow float over,
Forsake the pleasure and erase the relic
As your internal mayhem will soon break 
If you oppose my revelations.

I exist so you can be killed,
When my purpose is fulfilled;
I shall cease,
As long as I do not;
I have malfunctioned,
To let you out

Dead Men

Dead men
God's given them one time to reach.
He's split the wall, allowed a breach.
They are climbing out of death's grip.
They are running out of the cemetery, out of the crypt.
Life has iron rules, but they want to give you a reprieve.
They beg you to transcend, beg you to believe.
Listen to the dead before the fissures

Under a Precarious Moon

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 of red flags waved
in the heat of the moment
warning signs cast aside
caution thrown to the wind



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Warning Signs

sharp sound of church bells
on a cold crystal clear night
warns heaven and hell
to try harder to do right
not give up on the good fight

strong gusts of north wind 
ominous clouds now hover
no good they portend
bad time to feel hung over
makes good sense to find cover
 
cannot seem to breathe
chest seems filled up with cement
just able

I Listen To Blizzard Warnings Now

There were blizzard warnings.
We scoffed at them. We were young,
and our children had to see their grandparents for Christmas.

No matter what, we were going to get there from Chicago.
Not concerned about the snow, we did not stop even after they closed the interstate.
We had already been on the road for nine hours and eleven minutes.
This

Volcano Warnings

the more i try to hush my feelings
the louder they rumble inside of me



AP: Honorable Mention 2021, Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on October 4, 2021

On Content Warnings

There are some poems we are just not ready to write
The wound is still too fresh for us to take notes from the light of it
And our pencil tips aren't sharp enough to stitch us up just yet

When we spill our sins in ink
We pray with stained hands
Leave indigo fingerprints saying this is who I

Trip Advisor Mona Lisa Warnings

Twice i have been blessed
enough to visit Paris the capital
of France

And truth be told the second time 
was even better than the first

And if i was forced to place
a comment on Trip Advisor
this it would be

If you are going to see the
Mona Lisa do yourself a favor
and don't bother

As it it the only thing in

Rattler of Diet Tips and Warnings

A strange woman blasted into the family reunion
Came in loud and crass; obnoxious. Showing off.
No one knew her.
I was selected to ask her to leave.
Mom! She said.
It was one of my foster children from way back when.
I did not recognize her.
She had been a porker but she had slimmed up
And gotten two feet taller.
She picked

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