Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Spinning Chaos

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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Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

bones of our past

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…”

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

Burning in Plain Sight

as we spin a tale   

the beauty of youth turns foul

burning in plain sight

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Thanks to Colleen’s Poetry Challenge for the opportunity to shout into the wind about climate change!!

Today’s challenge was to write a poem using synonyms for the two challenge words. I used “beauty” for pretty and and “foul” for ugly.