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coffee not cutting
mind awash in yesterdays
brain fog continues
shaking off those memories
midnight even, no relief
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Word Craft Poetry
Category: Uncategorized
MLMM Wordle
What madness here as I bless the taste
A sugar sludge, deliciously made
I let it pool lavishly on my tongue
Thoughts of diet widely flung
Always in the hot fudge dream
Not imagination but sweetest cream
No butterflies or tiny pixies needed here
Vivid reality enjoyed in ice cream cheer.
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Fandango’s Who Won the Week
medical students at the University of Michigan walked out in
protest of a keynote speaker with anti-abortion beliefs.
Screenshot by NPR; Video: Brendan Scorpio
In total, he guessed, 35 to 40% of the audience took part in the walkout.
“The overall message that the students wanted to push was that reproductive rights, abortion, is health care,” Scorpio said. “Reproductive rights for anyone who is able to give birth are incredibly important and should be something that’s allowed to everyone in the country.”
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dVerse Poetics – Hot Night
Write a poem on any topic in any poetic form, that includes at least one of the flavors of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream in the list above. You must use the words exactly as they appear in the flavor name. No words in between them; no changing the tense of the words or making them plural or possessive. You may however, add punctuation before, between or after the words in the flavor.
Sipping his urban bourbon nightcap hoping for a better day
Possibly a cool brittania
He had walked through the urban jumble that morning
Sidewalks so hot they buckled like wavy gravy,
Feet sticking slightly in the dastardly mash
Feeling half-baked from the season’s heat wanting solace
A cool late night snack might soothe
“This is nuts” he thought, longing for Miz Jelena’s sweet potato pie or a sugar plum
Instead deciding no sleep would come, chose a coffee coffee buzzbuzzbuzz, settling with a book.
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Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge
From a children’s perspective
Sunk in a theater seat
A Disney feature is seen as a treat
The hero or heroine aptly displayed
Beautiful always, the images made
And when back home in reality, they think it’s a dream
A dreamlike culture made for them to believe
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https://godoggocafe.com/2022/07/26/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-july-26-2022/
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Enter your name and direct link to your poem in Mr. Linky.
Follow the links to other poets. Read, comment and come back later as the prompt is open all week.
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Native Americans
Babies wrapped in buffalo robes
Their eyes wrapt in horror
Wild-eyed as the only loved ones they’ve ever known
Violently fall, struck down by rifle bullets or ropes wrapped around necks
While previously unknown white men exercise their soldiers’ “right”—
Eradicate the brown people
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Six Sentence Stories
The Headache
She added the bookmark into the pages of the weathered leather volume to remember what she needed to do next. The last didn’t take as long as she initially thought. The planning however, which weapon to choose, and how to secretly procure it, took the most time. They say poison is a woman’s choice but that was so overdone. She needed something new, if there was such a thing. A cell phone rigged with an electric probe to quietly enter the ear and then disappear back into the phone worked perfectly.
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https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2022/07/24/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-222/
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 420 PRIZE and Wait.
prize of love
always worth the wait
patience gift
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What Do You See?
At last she found it, seeing it real, there before her—not a dream any longer, but real! She dropped her sandals and as she stepped into the warm liquid, lifted her skirt a bit. Then feeling perfectly at home in the environment, she sank down, fully under the water. “Just drift” she said.
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http://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2022/07/25/what-do-you-see-144-july-252022/
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