Cut down the trees, level them to the ground We need the wood for furniture, we need to build roads We need to dig for oil and mineral loads We need money, someone’s wealth explodes Destroyed forever for limited, temporary gain A startling powerful rainforest reduced to plain Cut down the trees, level them to…
She sang a love song and his praises. He flipped pancakes and his lid. She danced the foxtrot and around the truth. He was crazy bout a Mercury and loco. She gave lip service to her apology and him. He kept on trucking and the faith She whistles while she works and Dixie He holds…
exalt in excellence- except when it extends to exclusionary extermination engage in exciting exercises exclaim over eager exhortations exhale before during and after exhilarating expressions excogitate when expediency exposes expectations extirpate extraneous extinction expend an exorbitant existence exponentially explain exuberantly, explicitly, and expansively explore but never exploit exude exquisite, excessive, expansive excitement National Poetry Month:…
No one could see the war you fought inside numbing liquid to dull the constant pain finally ended in self genocide generous soul that friends wanted beside wise, kind through others difficult terrain No one could see the war you fought inside perhaps more than the breakup of hearthside how your bright life, we cannot…
digging a hole in dark dirt: rocky and dry adding the right mix of peat and water roots and a tiny twig to satisfy nutrients fed constantly to the squatter over years the twig begins to magnify exponentially with sun’s impramatur action/reaction more than planting a tree growing in stature and hope boundlessly humans, so…
empty pretty wrappings gift disclosed shiny, exciting, beautiful gilded, yes inside shows difference hollow, vacant, vain vain, vacant, hollow difference shows inside yes gilded beautiful, exciting, shiny disclosed gift wrappings pretty empty National Poetry Month: Palindrome. same forward as backward. I was in a hurry. This is a really genius poem of that type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA
dream open a door to another aspect of reality in subconscious floods torrential rain rushes the sill of glass and a tiny piano is moved there National Poetry Month: Tetractys, groups of five lines in syllable pattern 1,2, 3, 4, 10, reversed with additional groups of five lines added. A google search of tetractys would…
saying nothing is the best choice: giving opinion in your voice, though wise, may result in more harm than can be overcome with charm your heart may be full to rejoice saying nothing is the best choice else loved ones feel less to your more and under the ground to your soar you’ll find in…
Spawn had actually spent some pleasant time together today. It has been a while. A long while. Anyhow, she assisted me at Target to get my new new glasses and spend some of my hard-earned money on junk for her. On our drive home, we passed a Chic-Fil-A which prompted a little conversation as I…
searching dark corners and under stonesit may prove ever elusiveeyes clamped shut for protectionit sneaks through tiny cracksit comes when it comeswithout warningit’s not upto you(pick your own: mouse, love, hope, death, word) National Poetry Month: Nonet 9 lines, 9 syllables down to 1. My first ever “create your own adventure poem”. I suspect some…
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