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Bad Inhabitants! Bad!
BAD INHABITANTS! BAD! (For Jingle’s Blog) After years of neglect the elemental truth is this: We have failed as stewards of our planet as guardians of the seventh generation to come Our rain is acid...
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Healthy Food, Healthy Life
HEALTHY FOOD, HEALTHY LIFE (for We Write Poems) The prompt was about cooking, but I got stuck on ingredients! Amy HEALTHY FOOD, HEALTHY LIFE Don’t eat Red Dye Number Two Skip the yellow, green and...
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Harvest of Sight and Sound
For this Sunday’s prompt, we were asked to write about the harvest season. I gazed at a picture of Riley playing in fall leaves during her first Autumn, and the words fell like the proverbial fall...
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THE DEEPEST FURROW (metamorphosis)
At Poetic Asides, we’re still writing a Poem A Day. Today’s theme? Metamorphosis. I promised Robert, no cockroaches! ——————————– Someone once said, “Before you’re 30, you look like what God made you....
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YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW (Sun Scribblings)
YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW Last night slumped in an armchair A barely lucid lump of woman Juiced up on cough syrup to quell the oncoming bronchial nasties This morning, hastily dressing for church...
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City Snow at Evening (Sun. Scribblings)
Sunday Scribblings wanted to hear thoughts about December. Long ago and far away, I was a Manhattanite… CITY SNOW AT EVENING Central Park in December At dusk the sun has dipped below the stark skyline...
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Madison Midnight (ode to a blizzard)
BIG NEWS! Just found out I am one of 49 poets chosen for Poets United’s first Anthology! I am thrilled to be part of such an inspired group of poets. I’ll give you info when it comes out… but for now,...
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Creation Circles
Creation Circles Circling dew-drenched winds Particles settle, drawn into a core Water seeps over to shore and upward to the clearing sky A sphere, then Slowing moving, a circular wholeness takes shape...
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Frickin’ Frackers
Welcome to my 600th post!! Of course, it must be a rant… where would I be without political commentary disguised as poetry?! Thank you, all my wonderful readers, for keeping me honest and challenging...
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I Made A Bu-Bo
Portrait by Edward Lear, poet and artist I Made a Bu-Bo (and other nonsensical blather) Snickering up on the biggest owl on the entire Gaia Marble, the Eagle Owl (some are longer than, some are...
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The Autopsy
The Autopsy Fluids drained systematically First cut delicate Then deeper, probing for what’s needed to harvest Skin ravaged Insides filled to the gills with pills Pharmaceutical to the cuticle The...
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