To remember, is not to forget. The place in Hiroshima, ground zero. The place in Nagasaki, ground zero. Sometimes referred to as the hypocenter. The place where the bomb lands.
For Hiroshima, the hypocenter of the attack was Shima Hospital, 800 feet away from the intended aiming point at Aioi Bridge. Now there are smarter bombs. Are any more deadly?
unleashed on the world
weapons of mass destruction
will it ever end
from Psalm 50
God said
every animal of the forest is mine
the cattle on a thousand hills
I know every bird in the mountains
insects in the fields are mine
While walking
Jesus looked beyond men
landscape freckled with many animals
sheep and cattle
were His
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dVerse prompt for quadrille with the word freckle
It was the end of summer. The family had spent a few weeks in Iowa where my mother was now in hospice because of cancer. Both grandchildren spent time at her bedside and played with cousins, saw aunts and uncles and enjoyed the rare occasion of the whole family being together.
My younger sister would be the nurse. She had the training. I was worthless and returned home so the children could start school. In a few days I got the call. I booked a ticket to leave the next day. The children wanted to know why I was going again, since I had just been there.
When your mother dies, you go there.
Last night I dreamt I was the moon and I was the woman in the moon. I was the woman on the moon after a successful voyage with my rocket-fueled mooncraft. The moon was both in me and around me. I had always been the moon. Blood moon ran through my veins. Wolf moon always started a howl. The moonlight was penetrating from my skin. I was aglow.
I set up cycles that few could understand so they made me a goddess. Being content with that, I never asked to be worshipped. I never asked for those sacrifices. All I ever wanted was for you to see my beauty, to witness how I would fade away and come back and pull on your oceans.
In all of my fullness you must beware. I am the source for lunatic. Do not look long on me.
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dVerse prompt on a prose writing of 144 words based on the poetic line by Alice Oswald which is in italics.
Taking the ferry from Friday Harbor
smooth the water with no whales today
from here nothing looks poor or in squalor
chains of islands into Fidalgo Bay
til we rest at the dock to end our stay
kelp glows with light on these waving sea weeds
a seagull picks up a crab as it feeds
it is time to depart this vessel now
leave behind frivolous desire and needs
return with new vision and a plan for how
How to clear the woods of branches and twigs
arrive next spring to burn them in fire pit
weather permitting we’ll see how life rigs
hopeful of future accept what we get
there is so much work and no time to sit
thankful for still being able to move
thankful there is totally none to prove
enjoy indépendance of off the grid
no power creates a new kind of groove
complex arrangements are better left hid
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dVerse prompt to write a dizain – 10 lines 10 syllables each line
ababbccdcd
double dizain – do it twice
If frogs are indicators
my pond is doing fine
tadpole
frogs growing legs
salamanders
losing their gills
When glaciers move and melt
calving
dead ice
some disappear completely
that they once existed
cannot be denied
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dVerse prompt on climate change
inspired by the Carrington event
predictable
sunspot
shattering storm
swirling gases of hydrogen and helium
ready to flare
predictable from prominences and filaments
from millions of miles away an aurora borealis is made
beautiful auroras that spanned into the Caribbean
when the sun touched the earth the newspapers said
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dVerse prompt to write a sun quadrille
Adapted from a longer poem
