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Spinning Chaos

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Rising wall of blue

Chaos spins from his still eye

Exodus denied

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Thanks to Susi at I Write Her for a great photo challenge.

I live in Florida, so obviously Dorian has been on my mind for the last week. Feel free to interpret this piece as a statement on that bitch! Thankfully, we got off pretty lucky here, but the Bahamas were hit HARD. If you can, think about helping. They will need it. You can find links to some legit efforts at Bahama Relief .

But I also live in Trump’s America, so (for me at least) my words have another layer of meaning. Feel free to reinterpret them or guess my thoughts, if you’d like. That’s the beauty of poetry.

Plus, never forget he’s either just an idiot or a thin-skinned shallow narcissistic purposefully-uninformed idiot. #Dorian #nevergonnahitAlabama #doctoredphoto #nicesharpiejob

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Harmonic Echoes

Tina Stewart Brakebill

feeling gratitude

for harmonic convergence

and tranquil echoes

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In the current world context in which everything SUCKS, I’m trying to practice gratitude. I’m not very good at it! Thanks to Sue and Ronovan for (at least) reminding me to try!

Sue’s Write Photo Challenge

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge

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bones of our past

Tina Stewart Brakebill

to defy ennui

a message in a bottle

washed ashore today

bearing the bones of our past

as starkly bleached harbingers

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This bleak message was written as a response to the image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay courtesy of the wonderful Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Photo Challenge. Click for details and other contributions.

For some reason, this week’s photo reminded of this old movie!  I think it’s more likely she’ll be covered in rising oceans not sand, but still ….

“Damn you all to hell…”

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Building a Lie

Tina Stewart Brakebill

whispering, we cross

a falsely drawn line  

twisting tales of old

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Thanks for the inspiration to Ronovan Writes. Our challenge: create a haiku using the words twisted and cross. I think of this haiku as my short ode to my favorite worst treaty–the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo.

“no human is illegal”