after Executive Order No. 9066
Taken from their homes
hardly time to pack a suitcase
no pets can come
to this place between Sierra Nevada
and the Inyo Mountains
barbed wire kept them in
shot if you go out
yet in those confines of wire and desert
a community
a school
a hospital
gardens
orchard
baseball field
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NaPoWriMo April 20 prompt to write of an historical event. I visited the Manzanar National Historic Site in California today. A sad event in American history.
Oh to be a rock
still standing as sentinel
past millenniums
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NaPoWriMo April 18 prompt what would you want to be and why.
Known power
perhaps a land of sand
as loud mountains collapse
wind and water her daughter
sinned of trees and stone
whisper of cloud flees
snowed flower
a breeze
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NaPoWriMo April 13 prompt to create a word bank poem.
yellow boat resting
unpredictable ocean
comes out of doldrums
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dVerse prompt to write of yellow
The lions were sleeping from a food hangover brought on by feasting all night on a water buffalo. Two females, a young male and the dominant male were lying near the carcass. On the road we had seen a young male, alone under a tree. The game driver said that lion had been outcast because he had killed the cubs of a female. Another female was now hiding her cubs in the bush to keep them alive.
The driver takes us straight to the carcass. The dominant male gets up for seconds. The ribs have been stripped of meat. The head still there. He is not interested in me today. I watch as he applies pressure from his teeth, his paws.
on the open plain
animals graze and lookout
preying or preyed on
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dVerse prompt to write a haibun about a situation of pressure. I was going to add a photo but kind of gross.
Hold air like water
float
traverse skyward
in a dream
unbroken
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dVerse prompt on AI. This picture came out of an AI program at the Dali Museum in St Petersburg. My childhood dream of swimming in air was typed into the program and this picture was created by AI.
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Texting with my daughter
Oh to be able to taste again
sweet tapas of Malaga
restaurants flung wide open
olives served which we never ordered
but still had to pay for
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dVerse prompt on food. One too many servings of covid right now.
Rain is falling
branches ready to snap
leaves blow everywhere
he waits to go rake
leaves pile higher
at least clear a path so I won’t fall down
little at a time will get the job done
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
Rain is falling
look the sun just came out
grab your rake and go
it might not last long
glistening on tree
how can you take a nap at times like this
it could be the last time we see this sun
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dVerse prompt on a pet peeve— like when my husband doesn’t help raking leaves 🍁 and I sit writing this
Houses for sale in the Algarve
follow the cobblestone to the yellow one
imagine myself speaking Portuguese
eu escrevo em poesia
nadar no Mediterrâneo
cultivar vegetais
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dVerse prompt concerning an imagined house — I’ll take one in the Algarve of Portugal. Translation:
I write in poetry/ swim in the Mediterranean/grow vegetables
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