Calculated
We do not learn to be patient.
Or teach ourselves to appreciate,
Each other's gifts.
With a respect or our blessings given.
We wish to use manipulation,
As a source to show our ways.
And we think our children 'cute'
When they begin to place,
Their deceptions on display.
And 'that' behavior is approved...
As being accepted and okay!
And that is calculated!
One that is encouraged,
To be awarded everyday.
We embrace it and become elated.
Calculated.
With anything that is done,
Calculated.
To undermine anyone.
And not having an insight...
To recognize it when it comes.
A calculation to undo,
Those we sought out to dupe...
And conquer,
In a glorious contrived win...
With a calculated ending.
But now finds us the ones,
Who hobble along...
Baffled, broken and stunned!
Calculated in a hidden secret mix.
And preparing to transfix inflated egos.
To experience a flopping...
Shocking to those downtrodden.
Without a clue or a hint of it!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Calculated With 'Come-Hither' Stares
Aligning and finding the mind is attached,
To that Great One who knows...
All that we sow and reap to adapt,
More than we should carry on our backs.
But...
We do because it is what 'we' choose.
Believing our shoulders are for this to be used.
The Great One has nothing to do with that!
Learn to remove those unconscious traps.
Calculated with 'come-hither' stares,
Alluring to seduce with temptations to induce...
Senses of despair to bear,
More than we should carry on our backs.
But do because it is what 'we' choose.
The Great One has nothing to do with that!
Be aware,
Of those calculated with 'come-hither' stares.
Be aware of them.
Be aware of them.
Be aware.
Be aware,
Of those calculated with 'come-hither' stares.
Be aware of them.
Be aware of them.
Be aware!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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It's How I Feel
Speaking plainly
It's not something you and I do…
Not really
Not when it matters
We talk about the weather
We discuss the benign events in our life
I hold back
So you hold back
There's a calculated way we have
That masks some very non-calculated feelings
Feelings that
EXIST
No matter how cool
No matter how calm
No matter how calculated
Our exteriors
How unattached our conversation
They manage to bubble to the surface
Demanding to make themselves known
In some very non-calculated moments
Moments where
You think of me
Or I of you
Where, it's not longer so easy to control
Where something has to be said
Just to be said
To
Me
To
YOU
I admit
I take a step in the direction of being transparent
Only to go back and cover it all up
Hide as much as I can
You were better at saying what you really felt
However I think my lack of reaction
Or circumstances
Have taught you to hide
I admit I miss the way things once were
When you were more willing to try
More open with what you were thinking
More willing to communicate
I know I didn't react
But it always made me smile
Sometimes I feel… you're trying to spare my feelings
Because, perhaps you know, I feel
Something
And, you've simply changed your mind
Sometimes
I wish we could just speak plainly
I wish we could just have an exchange
About
What's really on our minds
If I sit back and look at the patterns of me and you
If I look at all that you do to show me how you feel
Without the utterance of a word..
It makes my heart smile
And, I hope somewhere in our acquaintance
I've managed to illustrate the same
I hope there have been times
I too have made your realize
It's not just you
With
Feelings
poem by Rabia Minhas
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Calculated Misdeeds
Calculated misdeeds
Come back to haunt,
Those flaunting ego wishes.
A shift in deceptions drift!
An upheavel comes to their lives.
And they are quite surprised...
How quick they fall and slip,
Into oblivion!
And there is no avoiding it...
When what had been,
Loosens from their grip!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
quote by George S. Patton
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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
quote by Edmund H. North
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From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.
quote by Carl Albert
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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
quote by Maxwell Maltz
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We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
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When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
quote by Theodor Adorno
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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
quote by Alexander Haig
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
quote by Alexander Meigs Haig
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
quote by Warren E. Burger
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Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
quote by Bill Blass
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Reconciliation
on slow
calculated steps
shall you approach
a door
you knock
there is no hesitation
for a reconciliation
on a remorse
pain shall be
forgotten
and then the door
shall open
the embrace waits
tears fall.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
quote by Erica Jong
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
quote by Eddie Perez
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Larry
How is your life path calculated on my love?
For you have amonument to honour your name;
But, i am Larry in the depths of the sea!
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
quote by Michael Douglas
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Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
quote by George Mason
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