#knowing-oneself

"Be Careful What You Wish For More often than not,a dream come true is a nightmare-in-the-making."

"Before It's Too Late [10w] Life's too transient to waste time hating ~plot revenge now!"

"Steer Clear [10w] Avoid alliances with anyone who's more to gain than you."

"Brownie Mix [10w] + {Couplet} Betwixt hell and the River Styx,I'll be shitting bricks."

"Depression Busy people have neither the time nor the swimming skills to take a divein a pool of depression."

"You Can't Win [10w] Every bitch is a witch;every wife brings you strife."

"Pain vs. Pleasure {Couplet} Pain and pleasure are nearly identical,the difference lies in their temporal perception.Pleasure feels fleeting, pain feels unending;both jolt us at the nerve's first inception."

"Suicide It's ironic that suicide, an act of cowardice,requires you overcome the all powerful instinct of self-preservation ~and thereby it's transformed into an act of bravery.On the other hand, the survivors would argue, an act of stupidity ~which many acts of bravery ultimately are."

"Sometimes Magic is What Disappears [10w] + {Couplet} Love's tragic, not ecstatic;with finespun change, disappears the magic."

"Crying in the Rain If you cry in the raindoes anybody but you know you're unhappy?"

"Six Minus Three Degrees of Stupidation [10w] Three degrees of stupid:stupidstupid squaredstupid stupid stupid"

"Informal HP Survey: Should Poetry Rhyme? O.K., readers, anybody who thinks poetry should rhymeplease tap your caneor jiggle your walker."

"Trickeries, Sophistries and Traps [10w] Life's great irony is that we, the trapped,set traps."

"Travel [10w] The difference between a traveler and vacationer is one arrives."

"Poetry Site vs. Social Networking Site [10w] Hello Poetry is whatever you want Hello Poetry to be."

"Harlem P.O.V. Everything outside Harlem's the boondocks,where hayseeds opt out of Nikes for Reeboks."

"The Fate of Prodigies [10w] Early to peak, early to deal with obsolescence and obscurity."

"Nursing Homes [10w] Nursing homes are house haunted by the living and half-dead."

"Silly String [10w] Life' an absurdity radiating from a spine of silly string."

"The Great Blue of the Great Blue A Great Blue whale mourns her hunted mate.Her heart, once the size of an SUV,lonely rides the empty sea,her heart's now withered to subcompact class,her whys and wherefores, run out of gas."