Contemplating travail…
Looks Like
When you work too hard
Burn out looks like depression
Don’t play that last card
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The last card being whatever desperation brings…
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From – Thru the Curves: Thoughts on Right In Haiku – (aWIP)
Category Archives: Fear
Possibility
Contemplating hope, and not…
Possibility
Hopeless not always
Lack of possibility
Sometimes mood’s decay
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Emotion is real. But not always reality…
From – Thru the Curves: Thoughts On Right In Haiku – (aWIP)
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Strikes Are Few
Contemplating learning…
Strikes Are Few
Mostly taking stock
Lots of clinches strikes are few
Young fighters balk
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Good And Bad
Contemplating bad breaks and how they’re made…
Good And Bad
Advantage drivel
Each size and weight good and bad
At higher levels
And conditions same
For both sides of the battle
So who gets the blame
Unless you can choose
To change the rules or the field
Deciding who’ll lose
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Digging Deep
Contemplating life and and reaching…
Digging Deep
Youth will find its way
Lessons of life digging deep
Sometimes in one day
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This weeks is inspired by time spent with a good friend’s family…
In Eye Blinks
Contemplating the contest…
In Eye Blinks
Weapons high they charge
In eye blinks samurai strike
Living fast and large
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Anticipating watching my friend’s son battling at kendo…
To Feel Relaxed
Contemplating fear and the realness of life loved…
To Feel Relaxed
I have stood in fright
And appeared to feel relaxed
Watching my son fight
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What else can I say…
Feel the Strength
Contemplating love and faith…
Feel the Strength
When just a baby
I could feel the strength he had
Never been maybe
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Some worries along the way, and some faltering steps, but always up and onward…
The Killing Shot
Courage, sacrifice, and getting the job done…
The Killing Shot
He shoved the bad guy
Deflecting the killing shot
Job done. As he died…
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A tribute to a best friend I never met…
From – A Warrior’s Tears: Poems Of Pain – (aWIP)
Heroism should be celebrated. Pass it on…
The Way You Act
Contemplating fear and courage…
The Way You Act
When panic is near
Courage is the way you act
NOT, feeling no fear
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From – A Warrior’s Battles: Poems of Struggle – (aWIP)
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