Failure

By Ali Noel Vyain

A collection of poems about a subject which is too taboo to write about. Yet, it can be defined in different ways and affects people in different ways. We all have something to learn from failures, whether they are ours or someone else’s.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ali Noel Vyain
• Release date: Oct 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781937050986

Ali Noel Vyain

I'm a strange and unusual writer/graphic designer who writes mainly in the urban fantasy/science fiction genres about people who come in different shapes, sizes and colors and may not all be heterosexual.

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Failure

Ali Noel Vyain

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Ali Noel Vyain.

Published by Ali Noel Vyain at Smashwords.

No part of this book can be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner.

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Contents

Definitions

Taboo

Definitions

Reality

Sin

Missing the Mark

Rules

Judgements

The Price of Normal

Success

Failure

Destiny

Marriage

Children

Career

Poverty

Material Wealth

Cars

Boats

Big Houses

Reactions

Strange Child

Idiot or Genius

Plans

Changes

Who’s in Control?

Pointing the Finger

Consequences

Results

Messed Up

Refusing to Pay

Heaven or Hell or Elsewhere?

Homeless

Finding My True Home

Health

Health

ADHD

Diabetes

Sensitivity

Unbalanced

Butterflies

Bees

The Trees Are Confused

Hamburgers or Coffee?

Work

Communication

Applications

Cover Letters

Resumes

Interviews

Jobs

Unemployment

Self Employment

Marketing

Branding

Building Up a Following

Feelings

Held Back

Irony

Kindness

Love

Hate

Confusion

Anger

Fear

Frustration

Selfishness

Respect

Old Age

Aging

Beauty

Attractiveness

Comments

Impressed

Object

Person

Acceptance

Ill Prepared

Who’s Fault?

Who’s Responsible?

What Can I Do?

Run Away

Options

Escape

New Start

New Circumstances

Not the Only One

Understanding

Learning

Living in the Past

Living in the Future

Living in the Present

Becoming an Expatriate

Magic

Magic

Fire

Air

Water

Ice

Earth

Black Obsidian

Power

Seeing

Visions

Witch

Becoming a Priestess

Definitions

Taboo

No one

wants

to talk

about it.

They’d

rather

ignore it

unless

they can

make fun

of someone else.

But never

do they

want

to discuss

their own

failures.

But we all

have something

to learn

from failure.

We need

to discuss it

in a time

when everything

has gone

very wrong.

Definitions

Words

can be

so slippery.

They must be

defined,

but many

fail to do so.

They just assume

we all use

the exact

same definitions

of the same words.

They missed the point.

I know from

all the writing

I’ve done,

that there are

more definitions

and interpretations

than those people

want to even see.

It’s a failure

to grow

and learn

new things.

Perhaps

they could

find solutions

if they just looked

or listened better

to others.

Reality

Can be

many things

to many different

people.

We don’t

all see

the world

in the exact

same way.

Is that

a failure?

Insisting

that my version

of