Bitter pill to swallow?
Hot coals
we walk
Along the path
Set before us
Did you call?
I did not answer it
You,
made this happen
All of you
Short timers
we all are
now
Did you even think about it?
45 to
Make it great again,
huh?
Yeah, hell no
Look again, hard
At all the lies
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Will this kill us
Wanting, to know.
It all seems senseless
I want to know
Define:
How this happened?
Burnt earth is happening
Soon
Killing fields are
The ways of man
who have no clutching
of their gut
Women who hold
their stomachs deep feelings in
Their wombs from
where life springs.
We [women] know how awful
And are not
distracted by greed
Whole,
Holes
Bullets fly in the air
Who holds
The guns?
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She crosses the lines
And thin boundaries
In the effort to disguise
The spirited dust
Behind her eyes
That so blinded
Just for a time, held
An embrace of
the darkening sky
Held deep,
no definition of clouds
Clear air blows in the
Feelings, stirring up
She breathes deeply
Sucking the air right out
of your chest
when she
looks at you,
choking, the corruption
Of the tissues
the self
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[another day late poem]
Weathering the storm
Watching
The killing of a democracy
While easy enough for
Elected officials who
Do not listen to their
Constituents
[Resistance is a popular
Movement]
It is all the hope
People are strong
Enough to do
so
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Round about
a way
Not straight
true north
Nor west
Places that never
belong to anyone
Well, they should
not belong to anyone
They need to be free
As we need to be free
Not encumbered
She smiled, with
her blue eyes bright
As she twirled
a bit of her hair
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January 6th, 2017
Day 6 Poetry Challenge
Uncertainty
From deep within
Layers of Euphemia
delicate like a woven silk
Aging parchment
Covers hide scars
Of pain,
weighty desires
of peace
She wanders
Tracing maps
Fingertips
framing out
new places
in her disturbed
mind
to go
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John Reed
Words Marked in Red
Red dahlia ranunculus
Are fussy in the front hall
But there it was in all it’s glory
Red
Reds
A Communist or Socialist
A revolution at a time people
arrested trying to get rights
For Labor Unions
Red tides
Have we reached
into the same bucket of time
For Dissent?
A matter for rich or the poor
People need to take action
It begs the question
How and what
Nonviolent tactics the best
Red
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Day 4, January 2017 Poetry
Neegan: “I will shut that shit down.”
“…it sucks that moment you realize you know nothing.”
I lit sage
Walking through the dwelling.
Winding my arms around
smoke billowing, cleansing out
all the negative energy in this space.
I want all this transitory shit
outta here;
I will resist
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Day 3 January 2017 Poems
Tweets ought to be
birds singing
Yet, we sigh,,, some
Unconvinced vernacular.
Those that believed, |Still|
Others, set in their ways;
For change, ought not
See,
See,
Have
Seen
the disruption.
1930s come, go.
1950s come, go.
2016 come, go.
We bargain, we fear, we rage
“We” in the mixture of the
larger audience needs to
reach into the bowels,
the sanguine parts
And twist,
Bloodied
we turn
Build voices
quiet resistance
less than a number of ticks
How many 140?
Tick, tick, tick-
tock.
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Grit
The ether formed,
her lips and mouth
|small words|
a whisper
that enlightened
just few who
listened for a mere
second in time
What happened in her life
to cause this isolation
From love, dreams
Or is it grit
that caused the chasm?
Leaning into it that chasm
taking small sips from
the pool of water
|Drowning in the silence|
Dark chasm
Musing on silences while
The chalk paint scratched
Fingers dug the ground finding
Crystals shining
She died quietly without
fanfare
or any persons sitting
around her bed
in compassion and caring.
❤
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