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Tag: choices

The Hour is Late

Unopened doors in neverending halls / I know I have the choice to alter clime

choices, ennui, villanelle

The Gambler

He took the news while looking bold;
He chose to bet instead of fold.

bluff, cards, choices, crime, gambling, luck, poker, punishment, reward, risk, rondeau

Everything’s Alright

That skip in Jesus Christ Superstar will always have a special place: If you try, you’ll get by – try, you’ll get by – try, you’ll get by – try, you’ll get by… Everything’s alright, yes, everything’s fine…

#freedom, Bop, choices, Freedom, options, polyamory

hold my umbrella

Ain’t nothin’ gon’ bring me down

choices, dry, making the best, options, wet

it may cost your soul

You can, of course, make choices, and…You can, but it may cost your soul.

choices, consequences, good and evil, hypocrisy

wave goodbye

Great Waves of contradiction meet in foam, the after-spray falls cool and wet on your face.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2021, choices, Go to the limits of your longing, rilke

wrong turns?

I now own my road
And revel in its
redemptive reality.

And that will make all the difference.

#napowrimo, choices, regrets, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

crying eyes cast downward

This canvas was not meant to be pierced.

authenticity, choices, damage, integrity, repair, wellness

Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh…No, Not Yet.

Just what would that look like, a day with no “no”s?

#FFFocus, choices, consequences, Freedom, responsibility, rules

both/and – #SoCS

Today’s prompt looks like a choice of two options. We were simply given “above/below” and told to write a stream … More

binary, binary thinking, choices, dimmer, non-binary, SoCS

hold on tight

factory-installed

choices, cliff, despair, determinism, fate, free will, hope, Thelma and Louise

Opting In – Part 2

It turns out that “in” is not where one should always opt.

choices, consequences

Sonnet XIII – “Alexa, Dim the Lights”

When given option One or Two – try Three.

binary, choices, dark, dim, light, non-binary, options

Choosing a Ring – #SoCS

My Ring doorbell chime still has a witch cackle from Halloween. I should probably change that – or not. There … More

binary, choices, tertiary, unbroken

side-effects

I forgot this part

#haikai, #haiku, #tanka, being, choices, feelings, hurting

poison ivy

stepping in the poison ivy /
i only felt the cool of green /
it wasn’t ’til much later /
that I felt its bite – so mean.

burn, choices, delay, itch, poison ivy, weeding
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