Your three words today are:
ELUDE
ELUSIVE
EXCLUSIVE
Elusive Tercets
I am not obtrusive
You’re just elusive
Eluding is you play.
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Is it abusive
Or your exclusive
To do it each day.
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It’s not so conclusive
For me to conduce it
Without any delay.
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You’re not submissive
And I’m not dismissive
So let’s call it “touché”…
-AAA 12/04/2024
What else do you need
Glaciers retreat every year
Ocean temps are up.
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What else do you need
Droughts all seem to last longer
Famine runs rampant.
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What else do you need
Rain seems to fall much harder
Than it did before.
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What else do you need
Once in a century floods
Occur more often.
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What else do you need
Stagnant air is hard to breathe
Making many sick.
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What else do you need
Massive brushfires scorch the earth
Death and destruction.
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What else do you need
Hottest years on average
In these last few years.
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What else do you need
Whether our fault or the sun’s
It doesn’t matter.
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What else do you need
I’m just not sure at this point
I think too late…
-AAA 10/03/2024
What do you do?
What do you do when your dreams don’t come true?
What should you do?
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What do you feel?
What do you feel when the world is too real?
What should you feel?
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What do you say?
What do you say at the end of the day?
What could you say?
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What do we give?
What do we give with just one to live?
What should we give?
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How do you dream?
How do you dream when your life is serene?
How could you dream?
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How will you be?
How will you be when no one can see?
How should you be?
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How fast do you run?
How fast do you run when you’re running from the sun?
How fast could you run?
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How do you love?
How do you love like a star up above?
How should you love?
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What do you want?
What do you want just a quick little jaunt?
What should you want?
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How do you play?
How do you play just a roll in the hay?
How could you play?
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How will this poem end?
How will this poem end, my dear friend?
When I say it ends.
-aaa
I’m losing my cool
It can’t be helped
Played for a fool.
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That’s how I felt
Irritated inside
Like a fresh welt.
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Damn my pride
Such a waste
Nowhere to hide.
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As I leave post haste
Trapped in the lies
I can’t just cut and paste.
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Yet, you gave me your thighs
I do not know why
To lows from such highs.
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Makes me cry
Foolish tears
Why’d you lie?
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I guess it was fears
Of what may come
And where your heart steers.
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Now I feel dumb
For buying it all
As well as numb.
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Like I’m 2 foot small
Reduced to nothing
Kneeling, I crawl.
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There was just huffing
No love to be found
All the while your McGuffing
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When I wasn’t around
You found better
And left me on the ground.
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A Dear John Letter
Without a sound
I deserved much better…
-AAA 09/13/2024
Can’t keep my eyes open
I’m in dire need of a nap
Up early, and I’m still coping.
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I feel slow and thick like tree’s sap
Only caffeine can get me through
Feeling dried out like a pen without cap.
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A latte or Monster Energy will do
Wake up juice is needed now
After consuming this magic brew.
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I feel light and airy in my brow
Really getting my second wind
Moving with determination and how
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My tiredness earlier doth rescind
Meetings and projects, so much to get done
As I finished them all, I happily grinned.
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Knocking out task lists is always fun
Satisfaction, at the end of my day
Now once and for all, my work is done
I’m not a Jack, dull, boy, it’s time for play…
-AAA 09/12/2024
Songs will sing
Hope they bring
Lessens stings.
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Music soothes
Life behooves
Feeling grooves.
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Beats will fall
Touching all
Standing tall.
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Sonic sound
Always around
Lost and found.
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Steps and twists
Shaking wrists
Late night trysts.
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Playlists built
To the hilt
Nothing spilt.
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Journeys fun
Or a run
In the sun.
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Music wills
Life instills
Bitter pills.
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Negate hurts
In efforts
Like desserts.
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Play your tunes
They’re your boons
When consumed…
-AAA 08/31/2024
The days roll by
One after the other
Take pause and sigh.
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Uncertainty like no other
Haunts us inside
Like a firmer friend or lover.
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Give up your pride
Eat some humble pie
And go for a ride.
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Each nanosecond rolls by
An eternity in each
Wishing and be could fly.
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Placing hardships out of reach
Landing upon happier times
One some warm sandy beach.
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We never stop paying for past crimes
Punishing ourselves for those mistakes
Get what we deserve on karmic lines.
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So take all those breaks
Parlay them into happiness
And avoid all the flakes.
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Finally you can impress
Upon yourself
Gentle peacefulness…
-AAA 08/28/2024
You can be free
You be you I’ll be me
Then you will see.
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Life can be fun
More than a ton
Much, before we’re done.
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Just be a little brave
Not quite a knave
Just yourself to save.
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Chart your course
By car, foot, or horse
You will endorse.
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Live your bucket list
A life of endless bliss
With your own twists.
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Forget all of your past
Your lessons learned at last
And tests have been passed.
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Live in the now
No sweat on your brow
Or slaving on life’s prow.
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Find a true love
A person above
When push comes to shove.
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That also in the end
Is a very good friend
With strength to lend
A compromising bend
And your heart to mend.
-AAA 08/01/2024
Mocking the trees
Won’t make you more
So let it go.
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Like sky and breeze
You cannot change the score
Trust me, I know.
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Like bird to bees
Nature’s implore
Must ebb and flow.
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Accept with ease
Close this door
And know your role…
-aaa
Anthony’s Crazy Love and Life Lessons in Empathy 