NATIONAL POETRY MONTH....Day Thirteen

People are just too quick to judge.  I have learned early on in life you first need to know someone before making a snap judgement. Many, and I am one, don't like to tell their troubles and problems to others. Some of us keep a bit of our personal lives just that personal. Why bother others with issues we have when they possibly have their own. 

Many wear a mask of a clown 🤡. On the outside we are happy and carefree but inside we could be hurting.  I never judge another until I get to know something about them; even then I wonder what may be going on they don't want us to know.

This triggered one of today's pieces.

Yes it's Friday the thirteenth.  So I created a short few lines about superstitions and myths. Enjoy. 

Until tomorrow....enjoy the day it's Friday and the thirteenth. 

Day Thirteen Poem

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             FLIP FLOP WALK

              ©. Scottie-ann Murphy

Walk a mile in my shoes

    Lyrics from an old country song

Walk a mile in my flip flops

   after which you can say about 

        me whatever you want 

You don’t really know the REAL 

        me

   Don’t know my personal pain

       What I fear....my troubles....my past

My dreams.....my desires....my hopes

You only know the part of me I     

        want you to seen 

          

You judge people by their outside

  cover....not their inside self

Walk a mile in my flip flops

    I dare you! 

         I double dare you! 

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          FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH 

            © Scottie-ann Murphy

Black cats crossing your path

   Don't walk under a ladder

       Break a mirror....seven years 

              bad luck

     Spill salt...toss some over your 

           left shoulder 

     Bad luck comes in threes 

A rabbits foot is lucky

Pick up a penny from the ground 

          for luck 

      SUPERSTITIONS 

We have heard time and again

Oh the poor rabbit their foot did 

       not bring luck to them....it's 

           on my key chain 

Why seven years of bad luck for a 

        mirror? Why not two?

Will a white cat crossing your 

     path after a black one, reverse 

           the curse?

That penny you bring picked up is 

    lucky as you're a penny richer

Friday the thirteenth....

     Some believe it's curse of bad 

          luck

Others just take things as it 

       occurs 

Whatever happens.....will happen

     It's just another date on the 

             calendar 

Another day of the week