This is what happens when promises are made that cannot be delivered. I gave you weapons. I gave you training. I gave you a plan of governance. I never gave you peace and stability in your own country. I put your sons and daughters on a plane as refugees. Your wife went too and now in desperation you cling to the fuselage.
change
A Place in the Sun
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
Change
Now it is only a trickle of a stream
where boulder rocks and pebbles accumulate
no hint of water on their smoothness
a dry bed until the hard rains come
gathering a force that pushes land
creates a new course through the city streets
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dVerse prompt on writing a quadrille using the word stream. Also recalling the flooding at Zion National Park and the water flowing through the streets.
Purple Splendor
Rhododendron
blooming
purple in its splendor
risk taken
after a flower
the fade
no longer the showcase
of the garden
fertilize
mulch the ground
prepare it for
another bloom
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dVerse prompt on risk and remodel— garden is beautiful and then it isn’t
Parody on Drunken Sailor
What do I do with a drunken husband
What do I do with a drunken husband
What do I do with a drunken husband
Leave him in the morning
Pray stay I will do better
Pray stay I will do better
Pray stay I will do better
Don’t leave me in the morning
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NaPoWriMo prompt to write a parody . I could go on with this but I am on a road trip.
Upside
So comfortable in my life
eat drink sleep create
ready to create a better way
moving into new areas
really moving
no time to eat
there will be food later
drink water
prepare a bed
with many pillows
tomorrow will travel
towards a new destination
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NaPoWriMo prompt to respond to a poem of choice. My life feels upside down right now, but looking at the new upside. Today was moving day.
Find Peacing
Wouldn’t do it
Couldn’t take
Knee or gun
To anyone
How to make
Policing
into
Peacing
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NaPoWriMo Day 22— “…and that’s all I have to say about that.” Forrest Gump
Bothered by Covid
Young man who administered the shot told me it would be over soon. He was talking about the pandemic. He liked my hat. I told him it was my keep covid off my hair hat. He said good and shot me in the arm.
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dVerse quadrille on the word bother. This is a prose poem quadrille.
Tumbling Hydra
No justice No peace
No bacon No grease
No money No police
No food No obese
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NaPoWriMo prompt for the tumbling rhyme. Current events manifesting a
News Flash
WHO announces the end of pandemic
You do not have to wash your hands
or stay away from your friends
free to move throughout the country
and the world (with your vaccine card)
still be courteous and do not cough
or sneeze
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NaPoWriMo prompt on news I would like to see. Can’t think of anything more desirable than this.
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