Tag Archives: neglect

The Neglected Building

Posted on November 22, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #579 Words: spin, whirl, creep, slack, stain, crack, curl, grip, light, lord, loom, glimpse, wonder Cracks creep alongside muddy stains. Lighting is poor, occluding curls of dust allowed to whirl into rusted corners of … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged building, landlord, neglect, strike, tenants, Wordle | 7 Comments

Neglect

Posted on January 29, 2022 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Friday Writings 11: Feast or Famine (posted by Rommy) “For those of you who would like a prompt to work with, may I suggest writing about what comes to mind after reading the phrase “feast or famine”.” What … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged animals, destruction, neglect, starvation | 19 Comments

iron gates

Posted on April 29, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Written for: The Twiglets #174 – “through iron gates” What will I find on the other side of iron gates? Cold to the touch like the bars on cages in the zoo weeds twist on brown grass neglect shows sorry … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged cold, escape, Haiku, limerick, Micro-poetry, neglect | 2 Comments

Lack of Care

Posted on January 21, 2019 by purplepeninportland

Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #387 Words: calls, wild, world, repenting, knees, walk, lonely, pebbles, love, air, trees, despair We need to take a knee, protest and repent our treatment of the wild, their lonely calls of despair, trees … Continue reading →

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ocean life

Posted on February 19, 2018 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Haiku Horizons – “vanish” Blue ocean life we turned our backs and you disappeared https://haikuhorizons.wordpress.com/

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged Haiku, Life, neglect, ocean, vanish | 2 Comments

In A Cold Place

Posted on February 12, 2018 by purplepeninportland

Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #338 Words: hazy, home, earth, rasping, holy, poverty, saint, crazy, frozen, rope, folded, gusts Poverty entered every fold of their cold lives, freezing lines on faces into tight frowns. Wind gusts whistled through insufficient … Continue reading →

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Disaster

Posted on January 27, 2017 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads: Get Listed! For this challenge, I have selected a few distinctive words from each poem. Use a minimum of THREE words (or derivatives) in a new poem on a subject of your choice. … Continue reading →