Tag Archives: fear

Duality

Posted on September 18, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #570 Words: eyes, rattle, word, time, longer, pills, search, know, game, normal, box, sweet What’s your game? I would love to know. You eyes search my face, your sweetness charms me, disarms me. As … Continue reading →

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Unsolved Puzzle

Posted on September 17, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Friday Writings #44 – To Err Is Human “For this week’s optional prompt, I invite you to write about a time when we realized we were wrong about something, and what we did after the realization hit us.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged changes, fear, independent, resolutions | 20 Comments

When Hope Begins to Sink

Posted on July 19, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Friday Writings #35 – Hope “Think about hope and what the word brings up for you.” If you dare to dream you must have hope. I find myself trying to stifle dreams because I feel they are no … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged dreams, fear, shut out | 5 Comments

Downward Slope Without Skis

Posted on June 30, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt (posted by Devereaux and Beth) “Write a poem using the words, ‘life, freedom, rights, regression’.” To have freedoms in your life, you must have rights to those freedoms. When rights … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged fear, freedoms, rights, threats, written from words | 5 Comments

Hatred and Power

Posted on April 26, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Sunday Whirl, Wordle #550 Words: reject, color, suffering, mass, war, cloud, kill, trenches, search, forgive, next, earth They descended upon him en masse. Searched their town under a cloud of righteousness. They would not suffer a man of … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged bias, fear, hatred, peaceful, violence | 2 Comments

Sense of Dread

Posted on April 15, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: April 2022 PAD – Day 14 “Write a scary poem.” A sense of dread when I awake, will today be filled once more with crime? Will bombing continue with vengeful hate? I feel like our world is out … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged crime, fear, pantoum form, shootings, war, Written for Challenge | 3 Comments

Sniffle, Sniffle

Posted on December 1, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Poetic Bloomings2, Prompt #362 Baby, It’s Cold Outside. “Write a cold poem.” I hope I don’t catch a cold, and panic it’s much worse than that. As virus mutations grow bold, I hope I don’t catch a cold. … Continue reading →

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Tears

Posted on November 22, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Miz Quickly – Day 21 – Emotion tears tumble down she fears there is no way out until she can float https://imprompt.wordpress.com/author/mizquickly/

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged Exit, fear, Haiku, sadness | 5 Comments

Fearful of Heartache

Posted on August 24, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #134 “We (heart) Poems” – (Posted by WhimsyGizmo) “Write us something that nearly gives us a heart attack. Come to us with your heart in your hands. Heart us a song, a storm … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged experience, fear, heart, Love, quadrille | 30 Comments

Middle Of The Night

Posted on June 27, 2021 by purplepeninportland

In middle of night, I wake in a fright. Nightmare. Its come back again, and I wonder when to dare close my eyes to light, and banish that sight elsewhere.