"Get all the brie
From the pantry"
Carol said,
"And lay it all out
Nicely there about"
Her typical Sunday spread.
She, a mountain
Of a woman
No man could cross
And I her pupil
No mentor her equal
She was a tempest tossed
Firestorm
Warm
I miss her still.
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Well thank you. I promise not to overuse it in #TheRiffOffGame at least. Just when it serves a purpose
I was going for a newspaper vibe, it doesn't quite match what I was trying to come up with but I guess that's symbolic lol
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A little awkward wording. I wanted to pack it with more examples of debate fallacies but I lost my resin of thought. Anyway, enjoy!
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Do you have the time?
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The concept of time has me feeling so inspired so I'll probably write a longer piece at a later time (lol). I can feel the energy percolating in my mind around it. But I still loved writing this piece and I thought that next line would be fun! 💕
Salvation is found within
Recognizing the limitations
Of external validation
We will only ever be
As beautiful as what we can
Call ourselves in mirrors
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Salvation is found within
Recognizing the limitations
Of external validation
We will only ever be
As beautiful as what we can
Call ourselves in mirrors
#poetry #TheRiffOffGame
This one ended up giving off proverb vibes so I leaned into that.
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Forever will be always
Forever we'll be, always
For, ever we'll be, all ways
For we will ever be, always
We will always be forever
Will always be forever, we?
Always be forever, we will
Be forever we, will always
Forever we, will always be
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Read left three, then right two. The follow up line is "Forever will be..."
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My fears,
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Also @malformed-poetry.bsky.social 's #poetryprompt
I kinda wanted to just make it two #quatrains but I thought "my fears" was too wicked a starting line for you.
Also, unrelated debating if the hashtag should be #TheRiffOffGame like we've been using, or something like #poeticrelay ? Hard to say. Anyway, I might return to the prompt again sometime
Garden of memories
Sharpen your shears
Peonies bloom
For a number of years.
I am the marigold
You the angel’s tears
I will grow anywhere
You may cut away
My fears
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In artifice
His words devised
New methods and lies
To tear her reality apart
Thread by thread
And put his own
Inside her head.
Little did he know
His world was no
Larger than a pebble
Inside her mind
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Dinner is almost ready
flirting with flitting
olfactory sensations
fittingly flutter into hunger
the candlelight dripping
red wax in a puddled mess
a makers mark of puzzle pieces
dousing tech bros in A1
ground machinery beetles
in artifice
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Best wishes and all that to you and yours 🤗
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Sorry this one's depressing, I tried to turn it around but I got lost in my spiral
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Slight nod to inspiration from Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles".
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Our democracy
demolition of the autocracy
supposing aspirational
if perhaps just a bit far fetched
cravings from this oligarchy
lest they poison us with
stomach smallpox laced oxy
wouldn't be the first time
historically attacked
by a fictional hysteria
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(I'm tired and had no idea what I was doing with this one.... So here it is anyway! 😅)
Gone and lost it
Rights ripened then rotted,
Tossed into the garbage pit.
Seram wrap what's leftover
As SAVE has shit
In the kitchen of
our democracy.
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As more lined up to
The sound of applause
Confused as they were
For what was the show?
Before they could ask,
She sang the ABCs
Except not in order
Rather perplexing
Determining she had
Gone and lost it
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I think it wants two more stanzas in the middle, it feels rushed. But I'm tired so this is the best I have right now.
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Vigilance is the way
Vigilantism is what
I actually meant to say
Get the forks and plates
We're eating good today
Quickly before they
Try to run away
Bait them with stocks
Even their yachts
Together they'll flock
Right into our maws
#poetry #TheRiffOffGame #anticapitalism #eatthewho
Courtesy of #TheRiffOffGame.
#poetry, #poem, #survival, #PTSD
Courtesy of #TheRiffOffGame.
#poetry, #poem, #education
Welcoming your bravery
Sweet voodoo child
To the beauty and the pain
Life holds all the mystery
Between the palms
of small hands
A face yet to touch melancholy
Anger, fear, or joy.
Silence is my vigil and
Vigilance is the way.
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She is lost in the storm
Crackling thunder
Pulling her far under
Sky, a relentless ocean
Bombarding waves
Drowning in the indigo
Felt first, then seen, afar
Extended hand
Waving from study land
Come, my friend, to safety
A cuppa herbal tea
Welcoming your bravery
#poetry #TheRiffOffGame
Perfect storm rises
Lightning cracks under my skin
Depression rolls in
Ash clouds towering
Rain drenched horizons stretching
Within and without
My clouded vision,
No sight beyond the torrent,
I am lost in the storm.
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