Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Smoke and Mirrors (posted by Gospel Isoceles)
“As we think about our own place within this complex construct of empty rhetoric and doublespeak, optical illusion and obscure motives; let us also remember most importantly, that writing poetry is a clear and simple form of rebellion against a world that is anything but clear and simple.”
Accept the unfathomable
–a tea party with hare and hatter
–a white rabbit worried or late
–liquids to drink and cake to eat
that will cause you to grow or shrink.
What to do about a mad, red-
faced queen, who it seems,
must have everything her way,
chopping off heads of those
who disagree. Selfish, spoiled,
should be boiled in oil, but
you cannot get close enough.
So you write about her collapsing
queendom in poem, on banners,
with organized marches. Sooner
or later, stupid loses.
Hard-hitting last line!
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Has to be. Thanks, Fleur!
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Most welcome.
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Promise? We can only hope.
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or, wake up and find it was all a nightmare.
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Oh let us hope (s)he will lose… let us hope
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I’ve learned never to say, things can’t get any worse.
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I love that opening line especially, could be my inner motto.
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Thanks, Paul. An inner motto could be interesting.
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My pleasure 🙂
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Alice in Wonderland
Syndrome Lilliputian
People Sizes me and
Everyone else Hmm..
That doesn’t Happen Any
More i Dance And Get Bigger Hehe..
True Men
Who Ballet
are at least
6 Inches Taller on
Their Twinkle Toe Dancing Stars..;)
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Now there’s a fact I was unaware of!
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Hehe it’s
Interesting
Being so tiny
And Large
On the
Dance
Floor too
Celebrating my
275th Dance Week
Tonight as the College
Folks are 4 Decades
Younger now
Still
Huffing
And Puffing
To Keep Up
With my
Cheshire
Cat
SMiLes
All that will
Be Left of the
Ashes and Star
Dust of Dancing
Closing in on 12,000
Miles of Public Dance
In 6 Years Cheshire
Cat
Will
Dance and
Sing so Happy
To make it to
60 Next June hehe..:)
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Well, even a Cheshire cat has nine lives.
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Haha
i Hope
As I’ve used
8..;)
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Wow, good one, Sara! And way to champion the written word.
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Thanks so much, Amaya!
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Fingers crossed. (K)
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Cross toes just to make sure!
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stupid loses… but takes a lot with it ~
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Have to agree with you on that one.
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Interesting and engaging direction you’ve taken with your perspective on Amaya’s smoke & mirrors prompt Sara well written. Yes, stupid loses, but certainly keaves a stain.
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Yes, we have to count on that as compensation. Thanks, Rob!
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