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Love/Anti-Love
Written for: Poetic Asides 2019 PAD November Chapbook Challenge – Day 26 “Today is our final Two-for-Tuesday prompt day. Pick one prompt for your poem today, or write a poem for each prompt, or write one poem that works with … Continue reading
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Tagged ache, American Sentence form, greed, Love, stubborn, Written for Challenge
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Favorite Son of Kim Jong Un
Written for: Sunday Whirl, Wordle #422 Words: pressed, evil, orange, tidy, saw, bone, trump, lies, hands, deny, grift, collude Denials of collusion, but his tidy hands did grift. Under orange mop, confusion reigned. Evil, lies–without wit. The Press is bone … Continue reading
For All You Greedy Leaders*
Written for: Poetic Asides #495 – “This week, write a “For (blank)” poem.” self-serving, climbing ’til your knuckles bleed to grab that last dollar. Power pours green though pores of your skin, yet still you sin, insidiously trying to divide … Continue reading
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Tagged caution, change, greed, leaders, revolution
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Of Tea Parties and Mad Queens
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 … Continue reading
Uneven Halves
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Weekend Mini-Challenge: “Just One Word” – Halved (Imagined by Marian) Learn your math now, or you won’t know a whole from a half. http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/
Sacred Spell
Written for: Sunday Muse #67 Jagged piece of glass in palm of stone. Mysterious section of green landscape untouched for years. A piece of forest has been torn away. Greedy fingers try to pry it open. If they succeed in … Continue reading
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Tagged doom, forest, greed, mysterious, spells, Written from Art
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King of Mendacity
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #366 Words: spoken, control, turn, term, terrible, idea, aware, span, audacity, granted, probe, deal Aware of audacity that threatens to span another term granted to a wheeler-dealer turning a country out of control, no … Continue reading
No More Blood
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~War and Peace
