image link *warning: content may offend some readers Today’s poem is in the triquain form. we found you violating a child trial by villagers; sentenced to death burned at the stake in a bonfire at the churchyard we spread your ashes over our fields you’ve helped feed us for years we give thanks …
Category: Word of the Day Challenge
Flint: Try to Explain
image link Try to explain to a child the taint in the water when, by its very nature, the child will have no capacity to understand. Try to explain to a parent how a system expects her to accept their choice to cut the children of Flint in half. Try to explain to the public…
Poetry — Peaky Blinders
image link Today’s form is a limerick Peaky Blinders A man with a roving eye’s sneaky so’s not to get caught doing peeky if his wife catches him for him it’ll be grim and he’ll sleep on the couch for a weeky. Word of the Day Challenge — roving
Poetry — Dunes
image link Dunes Wander through woodlands along sandy trails hearing lake’s whooshing up dunes and down vales a shimmering guide orange-pink rivulet reaching the crest to see the sun set Click the link to see a nice youtube video with the whooshing sound of Lake MI: Lake Michigan, water against the shore Word of…
Manifestation Part 3
part 1 part 2 Frozen in distress, no need to repress scream at the sight, Goat Man talk? Fright! “Co-o-o-o-ome Be-e-e-e O-u-u-u-r-r Gu-e-e-s-sss-t” Pulled again without will, my curdled blood chilled As I noticed a red hand stick out of his chest “The party is waiting, their hunger frustrating. You’re the main course, I think…
Poetry — Nuked
image link Today’s offering is in the form of a Minute Poem Trapped twixt free and automaton Angst leaves me wan Some from other None from druther . Pacing the gears of clockwork orange Feel abhorrence Senses shiver Lenses quiver . Wings bound neatly upon my back From will I lack Inertia’s doom Extinction’s…
Poetry — Manifestation Part 2
gif link Manifestation Part 1 It smiled just then, said, “follow me” Nerves jumping, heart pumping, “there’s someone I want you to meet” fear said no way will I go, although I had lost control of my feet. To the churchyard I followed, then swallowed When I heard a blood-curdling groaning bleat “Ple-e-e-e-a-s-ed toooooooo…
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