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waking up to this

violence here abounds

there are no winners

only innocent bodies

life cut too short for the young

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https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2021/07/06/tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-233-poetschoice/

You can’t prove

Superior might

With a gun

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https://mmastorytime.com/2021/07/06/mma-storytimes-haiku-a-day-challenge-prove/#like-6804

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Bright or dull or even faded

Why do skin hues find you jaded

Outward appearance is overrated

Why does color make humans hated

Is this how the world is fated

Look how long people have waited

For these views to be abated

Cannot just fault what parents stated

Opening your heart has been belated

See with new eyes and be less weighted.

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https://weeklyprompts.com/2021/07/03/weekly-prompts-colour-challenge-trichromatic/

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My heart is all aflutter

When I see melting butter

Has a taste like no other

Love I never fail to utter

I may even start to mutter

Licking lips with no sputter

Clear my plate of other clutter

I want only pancakes with my butter!

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https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/your-daily-word-prompt-utter-ydwordprompt-july-5-2021/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=f14faebe4b76b9d11637b002a7ad7c04&postid=4975&like=1&source=sub_email

A wizened notch in the mother-of-pearl broach only made the contour of such a piece of jewelry more endearing. It must have caused a thousand pin pricks in her clothing, since it was the everyday staple in her wardrobe. Even though her favorite sweater was overgrown and bulky on her withering frame, she would never exchange it for something new. Her comfortable surroundings now were mostly memories, but even those were starting to dwindle. Sitting outside in the afternoon, plucking fading petals from her chicory plant, she was reminded that all life is temporary.

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/wordle-248/#like-22281

curled trickle

bold black bitumen

smooth as silk

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https://mmastorytime.com/2021/07/05/mma-storytimes-haiku-a-day-challenge-font/#like-6715

We, the privileged

Stand in judgment of homeless

With a careless laugh

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https://ronovanwrites.com/2021/07/05/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-365-laugh-and-we/#like-168127

The surprise of fire suddenly rising in the night sky caused a ferocious outcry from the child. The form of the bright flames border was a frightening spectacle only seen in videos. Effervescent sparks drifted into the finery of summer trees, a poor shower for dry leaves. The devastation was too real for the young mind to comprehend, realizing this was nothing he could turn off by removing a game card.

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https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/wordle-508/#like-2479

“The Package” starting Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones, made in 1989.

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