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.
What if I had never married, the thought haunting my memories. My children say, “But then you would have never had us,” and I know they are right. How one lack of an event would make them disappear, and I think of Marty in Back to the Future. Haunting thought that it takes a lightning strike on the flux capacitor to make the future what it is.
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NaPoWriMo April 19 prompt to use haunting in a poem and then change haunting to hunting.
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What if I had never married, the thought hunting my memories. My children say, “But then you would have never had us,” and I know they are right. How one lack of an event would make them disappear, and I think of Marty in Back to the Future. Hunting thought that it takes a lightning strike on the flux capacitor to make the future what it is.
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.
Noise and confusion
when wildebeests congregate
for the great migration
zebras roam along
find safety in the millions
they are coming for greener lands
from Tanzania to Kenya
across the Mara River
where crocodiles wait
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NaPoWriMo April 15 prompt to be inspired by a stamp
Ready for more water when out on a desert hike and I forgot my Yeti. The dog is panting and I have no water to give him. I make the dog some shade with my shadow and keep walking back.
Ready for more open roads with no closure signs, no road work ahead, no traffic jams. May the roads be paved and not bumpy. That everyone will use caution when there is a storm.
Ready for more good weather in the desert and in the mountains. Blue skies with tuffs of cloud, a breeze and when it comes, a gentle rain.
Ready for more songs of peace on the radio. Peace between nations and peace in the heart of humanity.
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NaPoWriMo April 14 prompt to write an anaphora.
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.
You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?
So many ways to go
from Washington to Florida
driving and camping
Interstates 10 or 20
Cochise Stronghold to San Antonio
or on the Freedom Trail
40 and 70
standing on the corner in Winslow Arizona
see the Grand Canyon
or smell the bourbon in Kentucky
80 or 90
side trip to Yellowstone
Black Hills and the Badlands
or through Wyoming and Nebraska
pronghorn sheep and flatland
América the Beautiful
van life
Where would you go on a shopping spree?
I’d pack my bag and go to the airport
take a ride on Air Portugal
(the stewards are very handsome)
and when I land in Lisbon
I’d get me a car
to drive to the Algarve
straight to Benagil Beach
(the lifeguards are very handsome)
where I’d buy me a house
and stay for awhile
that’s why I practice my Portuguese
What’s your favorite candy?
It’s hard to think of chocolate when I’m detoxing. Melts in your mouth, smooth and lingers on the tongue. In Ghana I ate the cacao from the tree.
The boat from Crete to Santorini made almost everybody sick, except for an old man, book in hand, who read the whole way. The three young men behind me had smoked their pot and were calm as calm could be out on the sea. A youth soccer team at first enjoyed the ride then moaned in agony. It became a mass hysteria of barfing and prayers that we make it to the end.
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dVerse prompt — boat
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