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.
peace
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
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
Coming In
My daughter loved the book of poetry Where the Sidewalk Ends. She took it to bed. Nestled in those pages was the line “If you are a dreamer, come in.” by Shel Silverstein.
I remember the dreams I had for me and I remember the dreams I had for you. Not just ordinary ones like getting a good grade in school or going to a fine university, living in a two story house or taking a trip to Greenland. Not the dream to be a poet or magician or architect. My dreams concerned paradigms, broader in scope than world peacekeeping or disarmament. I dreamt contentment for us all, lack of greed and pride, love of the human race, coming in together.
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dVerse prosey prompt on Shel Silverstein quote from his poem Invitation.
P is for Peace
Protesting the protestors’ protest
Right on time
Of protested protest
To put the pro
Easily back in protest
Start the test
To see what brings peace
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dVerse prompt on protest poetry. During the Vietnam War protests we were sewing P arm bands. P was for peace
What Season is This?
What season is this
wear a mask for groceries
or you will get sick
What season is this
watch lawlessness on tv
in the name of change
What season is this
where travel is restricted
all over the world
What season is this
when people defy rule
to loot for big screen
What season is this
who saw Jesus statue fall
in mobocracy
What season is this
without fear of authority
that a way be made
What season is this
we stay away from people
end humanity
What season is this
worried for our liberties
while some hold rifle
What season is this
wayward disobedience
taunting the police
What season is this
welcome truthful dialogue
no taking of sides
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dVerse prompt to write a series of haiku — I am baffled by what is going on in the USA
At the Checkout Stand
I masked up and went to the grocery store. It had been three months of home delivery. Now I was on my own. I went early and social distanced most of the time.
There was lots of produce and salad dressings. Flour, not so much. Yeast, no way, but still hopeful. There was bleach and a few hand soaps. Alcohol on the bottom shelf, way in the back. You had to bend over to see it. Plenty of eggs and cheese and milk. A few boxes left with Aunt Jemima still pictured with perfect pancakes.
The checkout clerk wore a mask and asked me if I had found everything I needed. I hesitated; she waited for the answer. “Do you think we will ever have yeast again?” I asked through my mask. She thought I said, “Do you think we will ever have peace again?” She replied and finished with “only if people will do the right thing.”
trust the food supply
find more even in a siege
in summer we feast
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dVerse haibun prompt on a shining moment
Death
MIND body spirit
brought together
glows through
the portal
of what we call death
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dVerse prompt on portals
Fill the Day
Fill the day
with discernment
new language
& the Spirit
create a spa
for the mind
& the skin
purification
of the pores
& receptors
of the brain
take in the sun rays
& maniacal rains
stand under heavens
& weepingly smile
My God
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deVerse quadrille on the word fill
Name It
a dream came
there is power
in a name—
in the naming of a thing
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