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packing away the memories
floating on a wind balloon
sleeping neath canvas rain
holding tiny hands just made
testing recipes & foods
games around the table
old songs sung new
busy always creating
touching pleasure kisses
filling my life with dragon hoards of treasure time
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Thunderous quiet
clogs hearts
numbs ears
cast-down eyes
refuse to see
frozen fire
ice blood
rising like flotsam
transparent cover
for ignored crimes
That night,
the vast pool of the sky
became our accomplice
in stealing time back
the moon's bright clockface,
handless, held infinite hours
stars spread out
like a sea
of slowed down
s e c o n d s
and when you took
my hand,
it was as if
the universe
p
a
u
s
e
d
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"I have a simple philosophy
Fill what's empty, empty what's full
and scratch where it itches."
(Alice Roosevelt Longworth, celebrated enfant terrible) #Timeisavessel
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Time is a vessel—not a clock, not a line, but a hollow thing held out in quiet offering. It does not move; it waits for you. You can fill it with breathless hours, hands tangled in something warm, laughter spilling over the rim like wine poured too generously— or leave it bare, turned upside down, letting everything slip through until only the echo remains. I have done both. I have filled time until it ached with meaning, until even silence felt alive, until a single moment refused to end. And I have emptied it—deliberately, carefully—watching it drain of voices, of faces, of need, until it held nothing but me. That is the question, isn’t it? Not what time is— but what you are willing to place inside it. Because it will take anything—joy, grief, touch, absence— it does not choose. You do. So tell me—when you are handed this quiet, waiting vessel, do you want it brimming, trembling, overflowing— or clean, untouched, holding only the shape of what could have been?
As I go through my life
I get my time on a slow drip
An IV line of hours
Twenty-four at a shot
All my poor brain can manage
If I forget and try to jump ahead
Or too far back
The flow jams
And I'm mired in confusion
Give me this day
My daily time
And keep me in the middle of the stream
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Sitting here.
Trying to be strong.
Waiting to grieve.
Writing helps pass sluggish hours that still don't seem like enough time.
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A #vessel full of memories
as the seconds tick down
and the moments
become so fleeting
one side of the hourglass
empties to fill the
other side
but nothing is lost
the balance is maintained
it's just the illusion
of time disappearing
into the ether.
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Today's #poetryprompt:
Time is a vessel. I can be filled or emptied. Which do you prefer? Write me a poem about that
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#soft. and #hard. and sharp 😴🗡️
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I was unprepared
Walking into the lions' den
Unaware that I'd been sheltered
Protected by naivete
From silken razorblades
On their tongues
I thought amor vincit omnia
And maybe romance is the exception
Stuffed teddy bears no match for Empire steel
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Hope is not dead
it makes life go on
despite the struggles
it keeps us searching for cures
keeps us teaching the children
it makes art possible
it grows thin green tendrils
through the concrete
it puts marchers on the streets
shouting their belief
in Hope
Today's #poetryprompt:
Combine one soft word and one hard word that should not normally go together (like Leonard Cohen's "daffodil machete")
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Sanity is not
dead, I swear it
Even with people who believe
immigrants eat pets or
starting the costliest
war for no reason
or covering up a sex traffickers
coconspirators for endless
strained reasons,
or being glad people died
I swear it’s not dead
All roads
lead to Rome
they say:
five years
in bella Italia
every Christmas
a trip to see
the Pope
during Mass
cold and shivering
from eight to thirteen
not having a very
happy holiday
but say that
to Mother
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Irony is not dead:
the best of the best
denied a chance
to live to their
potential
the worst of the worst
run amok and
spread their
evil everywhere
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Old ID not dead
We're written off
Pushed aside
Culture tells us
Cover the Grey
Plaster over the wrinkles
The bags under our eyes --
The ones we got losing sleep over you
We are weathered
If we were a pair of $300 jeans
You'd want us
Show us off
We're not dead yet.
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The skies scream
boots crack paving stones
windows shatter
all is not lost
hope is not dead
we carry on
till total darkness
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"_is not dead"
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#hopeisnotdead
#Madrigal
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#MPPrompt - pilgrimage
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_____ is not dead
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we went together
hand in hand
through my past
haunts
mountains & sea
met up family
drove till
blocked by fire damage
we abandoned the cars
helped each other up
& up
past redwood heights
to lay mom's ashes
in the old homestead
meadow
with her siblings
by the creek
they all loved
#MPPrompt - a poetic lie
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...while listening to what I besiege - or do you actually believe me?
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Today’s #poetryprompt:
Write me a poem about a pilgrimage
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