The Bag Lady

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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http://fivedotoh.com/2022/07/24/who-won-the-week-07-25-22/

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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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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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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http://dversepoets.com/2022/07/25/quadrille-155/

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/

prize of love

always worth the wait

patience gift

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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/

https://rugby843.blog

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This is a hard question for me because I am extremely protective of my family, but when it comes right down to it—no, I don’t think we have the right to kill someone.

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I am always grateful for my family—my oldest son’s recovery from cancer, my far away son who’s trying to grow a garden in unprecedented heat, and my daughter and grandkids close family who help me in multiple ways. I do realize how privileged I am. Life for me is good♥️

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https://sparksfromacombustiblemind.wordpress.com/2022/07/25/share-your-world-7-25-2022/

The flickering reflective line from the bright sun danced on the waves, almost seen as a bundle of dropped stars. So radiant the sight, my eyes were immersed in a temporary blindness. The sandy beach was a perfect meander among driftwood and sea contoured stone, and the taste of salt was felt on my tongue. The false drama of a floating ghost ship appeared; only a mirage in the sun shone water. I wondered what idol ancient beachcombers imagined as they also visioned the ocean’s portraits.

https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2022/07/24/wordle-562/