ivor or ivor.e hogg Poems

What makes an action right or wrong?
Do we decide this consciously?
or do we simply go along
with accepted morality.
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I say with all sincerity.
You can be sure I speak the truth
I’m not the man I used to be
I was a most obnoxious youth.
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No pain no gain, but that’s insane
When you feel pain it’s warning you
that you should really think again.
What it is that you try to do.
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The skunk was not aware he stunk
His only wish was to make friends
forgive forget and make amends
His family motto so he thunk.
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I tell you this in confidence.
Because I know you lack the sense
to treat it confidentially
and you will spread it happily.
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I was naïve I trusted you,
just as you always meant me to.
You were convincing when you lied
but when your lust was satisfied.
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Sometimes when the night is falling.
I can hear them softly calling.
Come and dance the night away
the moon is shining bright as day.
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Consistency and symmetry
combined with meter seem to be
Ingredients of good poetry.
Though modernists will disagree.
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The setting sun imparts a glow
upon the surface of the lake.
In shades of red which come and go.
Some are translucent, some opaque.
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If I should stray too far inland.
I’m stricken by anxiety
for reasons I don’t understand
I must stay close beside the sea.
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