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Four Years
Written for: One Woman’s Quest II VJ’s Weekly Challenge – Repercussions Four years of fear, watchful eyes and ears. All the truths we thought we knew, shatter into lies, and hatred. We wait, bated breath. Can we heal, unify, feel … Continue reading
Your Life
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #323 Playing Favorites #6 ‘“Playing Favorites” is as simple as choosing a favorite poet/poem (world famous or just famous in our own little garden) and picking a line or title of one of their … Continue reading
Lose The Smirk, Get To Work
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar: Protest Poetry (posted by Grace) “Write a Protest Poem with a theme (e.g. voting, social justice, peace & war, violence, women’s rights, human rights, environment, pandemic, etc) in your blog. This … Continue reading
How Truth Feels
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Truth (in honor of Gandhi’s birthday) Your Challenge: Write a new poem in which readers can experience truth in action. (posted by Susan) There is a problem when a person tells so many convenient lies, … Continue reading
truth, art
Written for: the Twiglets #136 – “truth is art” Art is not necessarily truth. Sometimes life imitates art filling it with vigor and vibrance, or dragging it down to a low place of death. Truth is a perfect clear water … Continue reading
Substitute Truth for Lies
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #393 Words: smug, memo, truth, corrupt, delete, mock, catch, hope, note, born, fire, liar Catch that smug-born liar, and memo him the truth. Send a note, and hope it will set a fire under … Continue reading
If Truth Were Tangible
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Truth If truth were a color would it be the golden light of sun, moss green of Mother Earth, or true blue as a loyal friend? In the end, if you see these hues, they … Continue reading
underneath
Written for: Carpe Diem 1398 – Purity (Rumi) Purity: A certain Sufi tore his robe in grief, and the tearing brought such relief he gave the robe the name faraji, which means ripped open, or happiness, or one who brings the … Continue reading
This Poem Is A Rumor
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #332 Words: light, nothing, ditch, vine, mighty, silver, boil, lost, tell, middle, rumors, seams This poem is a rumor, a whisper of light and loss traveling up silver-seamed vines, growing from nothing but colored … Continue reading
What??
Written for: Poetic Asides #411 – Write an information poem. The poem could be about delivering information, sifting through information, or receiving information. But remember: Not all information is created equal. And not all of it is reliable. And some … Continue reading