Category: poetry

Missy’s MAD Challenge #013

Anthony6 Comments

Missy’s MAD Challenge # 013

Every week, a creative prompt will be offered for you to unleash your imagination and artistic skills. 

You can share your response in the form of art or any creative expression that the prompt inspires.

There are no restrictions and no deadlines, so feel free to take your time and enjoy the creative process.

Remember to label your response with #missysmadchallenge. 

Your challenge for the week

  • Staring at his/or her reflection

Is He Me?

Stare at the mirror

His reflection staring back

Does he know himself

The old man looks back and nods

Some, familiarity…

-AAA 10/29/2024

I’m in WordPress Jail

Anthony49 Comments

WordPress automation 

Gave me a bad reputation

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I “like”, subscribe, and comment too much 

They feel I’m using that as a crutch

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Truly Fair or is it not 

They say I’m like a BOT

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So since I’m classified as slime 

I cannot “like or subscribe at this time”

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I hope that you won’t leave me

As they will not reprieve me 

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I love the words we write and share 

This mutual respect is beyond compare

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I feel very disappointed and angered, a bit

This treatment of me makes me want to quit

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But worry not, I won’t, I’ll continue to write

The words that come to me day and night 

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I’ll comment much and share my love

Which is truly all I’m made of.

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Just please take this with a grain of salt 

If I don’t “like” your works it’s not my fault 

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Thank you for reading, allowing my vent

And appreciating  all the time we’ve spent

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This, my mild protest, not too exciting 

But even if they tie my arms, I’ll keep on writing…

-AAA 10/30/2024

Halloween Delight 

Anthony6 Comments

Leaping lizards 

Jumping frogs 

Chicken’s gizzards 

And polliwogs.

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Dancing spiders 

Soaring bats 

Shadow gliders

And black cats.

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Greenish bubbles 

Cauldron boils 

Toil & troubles

Darkish oils.

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Incantations 

Spoken loud 

Much elation

Costumed crowds.

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Parties roar 

Not contrived

Children soar

So alive. 

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Moonless night 

Candy to eat

Some will fright

Trick or treat…

-AAA10/29/2024

Life Shining Bright

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Your life is shining so bright 

Hard to tell if it’s day or night.

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You’re a bright shining star

Just for being who you are.

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You were made in your own special way

Embrace your ‘inner weird’ in work and play.

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Being you has been a series of feats

As each evolution the self completes.

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Life will pass you, in the blink of an eye 

Live it well as you can, before you die.

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You’ve got all of this and much more 

Life is the game and you know the score.

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Living your dreams and blazing a trail

Taking control of your life without fail.

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Challenging yourself and all you know

With each lesson you further grow.

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Don’t look back unless with a smile 

Negative dwelling cramps your style.

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Adages say “things happen for reasons”

Some short, while others last seasons.

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So just sit back, smile, beaming with pride 

Fasten your safety belt, and enjoy the ride. 

-AAA 10/28/2024

Regret

Anthony3 Comments

Reach me, hold me,

touch me, scold me.

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Tell me I was wrong

Say it or in a song.

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Let me know how to fix it

and I’ll cook, stir, and mix it.

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Please don’t leave don’t say goodbye

it will hurt too much to cry.

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Words “I’m sorry” can’t say enough

take them in before a rebuff.

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Forgiveness is love’s mere boon

here on earth and beyond the moon.

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Taking mulligans is hard to do

try taking three, one, or two.

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Forget not what holds us dear

someone warm and caring near.

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Pride is razor sharp and slanted

so don’t take lovest ones for granted.

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Fall deep into the lonliness chasms

Nothing felt but a hear that spasms.

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Think of the other and not just self,

or end up will you on a shelf,

without love and by yourself…

AAA 05/20/2020

Hang In There Sky

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Hang in there sky, everything is going be ok

because I know tomorrow is a fresh day.

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Hang in there sky, I promise it’ll be good

Life will unfold for you the way it should.

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Hang in there sky, I really care

I know your life is beyond unfair.

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Hang in there sky, the world’s gone mad

Men of the world seem selfish and bad.

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Hang in there sky, I say it a lot

To remind you of what you’ve got.

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Hang in there sky, you’re beautiful to the core

With heavenly bodies and so much more.

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Hang in there sky, I know that life is cruel,

but all who have wronged you are forever fools.

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Hang in there sky, don’t you cry

Let space hold you and let time fly.

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Hang in there sky, for in the end

You and the stars are my dearest friends…

-AAA 08/26/2021

Hostaged 04/10/2020

Anthony4 Comments

The dream is over buried and dead

from all things seen and read.

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Life now a tangled mess

doctors/politicians do their best

alas I confess

its the hardest test.

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To contain the strain that beats in brains

just insane as money drains.

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What can we do what can we say

boarded up inside homes drying clay

and at the end of a day

its not a new day.

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A few more weeks we stay apart

this affair breaks my nimble heart.

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stabs like steely knife

wondering about the ways of life

at home with kids and wife

humbled nations share true strife.

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Awake from this nightmare soon

pay and plead and beg for boon.

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Let it end end today

is for now I pray

nothing left to say

but pure dismay…

AAA 04/10/2020

What Would You Say?

Anthony7 Comments

What do you say to old you from an earlier day?

What do you say?

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What do you say to memories that won’t stay away?

What do you say?

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What do you say the way you used to play?what do you say?

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What do you say how your exes stray?

What would you say?

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What would you say if it was you and not they?

What would you say?

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What would you say if you could forget that day?

What would you say?

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What would you say for the answers you pray?

What would you say?

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What would you say if you’d let old dogs lay?

What would you say?

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What would you say as your hair grows gray?

What would you say?

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What would you say if she decided to stay?

What would you say?

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I know what I’d say I want peace today and leave the past so far away.

That’s what I’d say.

-AAA 05/20/2020

Roses Stained with Love

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The nightingale sings  

With blood stained wings.

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Love forlorn trampled on the ground 

Pins could drop in the absence of sound.

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A student shakes his weary head 

Not knowing of the song or dead.

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The ultimate price for loves delight 

Vanished before the very next night.

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Money and stature are all that moves 

Hearts and minds and bodies too. 

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I am Wilde’s student and the nightingale too 

I’ve loved many times and was always the fool.

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I’ve tried to change take the cynic’s route 

That just isn’t what I am all about. 

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The world doth spin and sky stay blue 

For the loves we have that are false and true.

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Be true to thein self the prophet cried 

Which means I’ll love until I’ve died.

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Cry not for me, or student, or the crimson bird 

For one day I will be appreciated and heard…

-AAA  08/12/2021 

Can Anybody “Like” Blogs in WordPress?

Anthony58 Comments

WordPress is broken

It’s not letting us “like”

Hurting our numbers.

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Please, fix this

Our blogs are our life

This is unacceptable.

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I have “liked”

The same posts, five times

They’re not showing.

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What’s going on

I wish that I knew

It’s very frustrating.

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I have cleared

All my web browsing cache

But nothing changed.

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I have tried

On my iPhone and laptop

Still no dice.

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Are we all 

having these same issues, or

am I alone???

-AAA 10/23/2024

Missy’s MAD Challenge # 012

Anthony6 Comments

http://madmissywork.blog/2024/10/21/missys-mad-challenge-012/

Every week, a creative prompt will be offered for you to unleash your imagination and artistic skills. 

You can share your response in the form of art or any creative expression that the prompt inspires.

There are no restrictions and no deadlines, so feel free to take your time and enjoy the creative process.

Remember to label your response with #missysmadchallenge.

Your challenge for the week

  • It was time

Time to Go

It was time to go

Way past time to go

My heart told me so 

It had teetered to and fro

But her actions did show 

That I didn’t matter long ago 

My intuition let me know 

My inclination no longer slow

To continued manipulation I said “no”

It was time for me to grow

Take away her control

So I did go…

-AAA 10/21/2024