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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

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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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Today’s #poetryprompt:

_____ 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

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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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Too much to do
too little time
so many appointments
the calendar on the wall
the clock is ticking
away the seconds
and the minutes
of a life without pause
no time to breathe
or pause and reflect
just keep on going

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"Brutus is
an honourable man"
his supporters
obviously thought so
but Julius Caesar
found out that
such was not
the case.

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I didn't eat those cookies
Didn't take more than my share
While you were out
Rearranging what was left
Hoping you wouldn't notice
That I'd get love from cookies
Not criticism and ridicule
If I eat the cookies
Will I fit in?
If not my clothes, then this family,
This world?

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Medieval visions
distorted by wishes
not science
Barnacle geese begin
glued to rocks as barnacles
beavers have fish tails
just look at the scales
Dolphins too are fish
you may eat all as a dish
during Lent & still
be of good Catholic will
back then
before science

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Skylight of the mind
casts bright vision
of love, joy, & sharing
but dusky shadows too
of fear, rage, & hurt
Gazing through
that hole in my mind
would you come to understand me any better?
or be as baffled as before?

I have never broken— not once, not even quietly in the dark with my teeth sunk into a pillow so the world wouldn’t hear me unravel. I have never loved someone who did not love me back in the exact same language, with the same urgency, with hands that never hesitated. I have never stood in a room full of people and felt like a misplaced object— something set down temporarily and forgotten. My body has never betrayed me, never carried the evidence of time or memory or survival. I have never rehearsed conversations that never happened, never built entire futures on a single look, never mourned something that was never mine. And when the night comes, I sleep— easily, without ghosts, without echoes, without the quiet, persistent ache of almost. This is the lie: that I have lived untouched— unmarked, unmoved, unmade by everything that ever tried to take me apart.

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#MPPrompt - another attempt

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Hazy Heads Not empty, but full of naught. © Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree

Hazy Heads

Not empty, but full of naught.

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My aura
is like a spring morn—
in my wake
the flowers bloom,
buds opening
like a bright smile

the waves calm
when I walk by,
lightning pauses
forgetting to strike,
and thunder,
instead of rumbling,
decides to sing—

I am lightness
incarnate.

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...these, I can be irenic, too.

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