I bless those who enter the fray
a mother praying nightly for safe return
now fights against sex traffic of child
in a country with a written law
helping law keepers to better know it
protect those who cannot protect own self
want to end slavery in our lifetime
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dVerse prompt to write a Kwansaba (seven lines, seven words per line, no word over seven letters)
All the guests
have left the house
Christmas is over
the goose was cooked
stewed in its fat
pennies weigh heavy
in the old man’s hat
all I have left to do
is to bask awhile
in the aftergloom
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dVerse prompt to write a poem using a word from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. I choose aftergloom.
Dark too early
add gloom of cloud covered night
hanging on to the day
with cold in hallways
feel the draft
time to tinsel the town
with flashing lights
singing angels
bright stars
Gloria chorus
in excelsis deo
Handel’s chorus
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille using the word tinsel
When I got too haughty, my mother would say, “Who do you think you are? A Floradora girl?” I hardly knew the meaning of a Floradora girl but it was the tone of which she spoke it that made me pause my behavior. I knew she had a doll named Floradora. I didn’t know Floradora girls were also beautiful women who danced in a chorus line in the musical of the same name. Perhaps her mother had said the same to her when she displayed an air of arrogance.
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