“My battery is low and it’s getting dark.” Mars rover Opportunity
I slept deeply under the strawberry moon
had dreams of your fear of traffic
you would not cross the highway
even though the signs were clear
you were lying on the sidewalk
unable to get up and move
while I was at the other side
waiting and calling
I had to go on
alone
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dVerse prompt using a quote from a list. I loved the quote from the Mars rover.
Night of the Living Dead was a scary movie I saw when I was a teenager. It was even scarier driving past a cemetery on my way home that night. The plot line resembles Walking Dead— cannibalistic zombies walking around attacking and eating people. Walking Dead is in the eleventh and final season of guts flying and spilt brains and many ways to slow down, trap, and kill a zombie, not to mention the unraveling of society and its attempt at restructuring.
taking from the past
brings unimagined seasons
fuels a greater fear
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dVerse prompt on a fear that was experienced— my experience with zombies has only been in movies
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
His shadow shouts—
don’t betray yourself
stay inside
it is your alibi
months later
on a nightmare scream
he went outside
when his shadow
could not be seen
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dVerse prompt to use Maya Angelou’s line his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
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