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Dangerous Cargo
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #585 Words: matter, fly, close, right, resist, drive, oil, boat, shoot, speak, preserve, fire Well shoot. I didn’t know the boat was carryin’ oil. Matter fact, I was might boiled up about it, ‘specially … Continue reading
A Wider Sky
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #582 Words: flow, time, serial, sky, rule, open, heaven, within, channel, beneath, urgently, hell Within a flow of time, under perfect conditions, the sky opens wider, and Heaven is harder to rule out. Yet, … Continue reading
Saving the World
Written for: November 2022 PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 12 “For today’s prompt, write a future poem. The future could mean years into the future, or it could be less than a minute. Or it could be a poem in … Continue reading
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Tagged bleak, division, greed, monotetra form, Written for Challenge
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Sales, Sales, Sales!
Written for: Miz Quickly – Day 26 – State of Things “The Rabbit is writing these ahead of time, and has no idea what the current state of affairs might be. Write about something in the news, something that the … Continue reading
Once
Written for: Miz Quickly – Day 29 “Begin with the words, “Once upon a time” Once upon a time the rivers flowed with wine. Marine life was happy then until it all came to an end. Human greed and disregard … Continue reading
Steeped in Greed
Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe, Donna Matthews challenge: A Rondeau “The rondeau has a refrain and rhymes–two elements of many French poems. The traditional rondeau is a poem consisting of 3 stanzas, 13 original lines, and 2 refrains (of … Continue reading
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
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