Category: poetry

Where Did We Go Wrong? Everywhere…

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Politics of hate 

Currently no debate 

Cacophony of rhetoric 

Fractured nation state.

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Differences aside 

Drop foolish pride

Look for commonality

We’re the same inside.

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ANTIFA or QANON shrews 

No lives and nothing to do 

Create insane conspiracies 

And pass them off as news.

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What happened to compromise

Creative thinking and improvise

Using our mere brains 

Rather than buying into stupid lies.

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What happened to science and sooth

Instead there’s heresay by the uncouth 

Spatting of myriads of falsities 

And passing them off as factual truth.

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These past few years idiocracy has boomed 

With the real facts buried, entombed

We’d better find the common truth fast 

Or as a society we are doomed…

-AAA 10/13/2024

QOTD: # 208

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What have you been putting off doing? Why?

I won’t lie I’ve been putting off seeing the doctor.

After I had a extended lapse in my visit to the dentist. My most recent one was quite the worst. I had to have four teeth pulled than an implant put in one of the most traumatic dentist visits of my life (I posted about that in here earlier this year).

I know it’s dumb and irrational but that first trip in while is always the worst.

I fear they’ll find something more wrong with me, and I’ve had a decent share of that in my life already!!!

But not everything has to be the worst like all fears I’ve had in my life. I’ll get over this one too, soon, very soon.

I will go soon, we all have to. Knowledge is power and self care, crucial to happiness and longevity.

-aaa

My Last Poem, Or Is It?

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My last poem 

For this warm October Friday 

My day complete.

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Just until Saturday

Then I’ll write some more

So don’t worry.

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I’ll be back 

With many more creative ideas

On Sunday too.

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On that note 

Have a wonderful weekend everyone 

Live it up.

-AAA 10/11/2024

Kitten Smitten

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Pit pat 

Little cat

Split splat

Just like that.

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Pounce pounce

Skip and trounce

Little ounce 

Jump and bounce.

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Fling a string 

Fun it brings 

Purr and sing

Angel wings.

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Flip flop 

Cannot stop

Pitter pop

Restful drop.

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Shadows fall 

Curl into ball 

Kitten dreams call

Rest then crawl.

-AAA 10/11/2024

What?

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Potato Baroque pudding pops.

Slimy sturgeons.

Purple pineapple parakeet.  

Amuse

Day and night do not have any letters in common.

I’ve been arrested by the dream police.

Cacophony of reconstituted pickle relish remains untouched.

Everything related is unrelated.

Time is everything and nothing simultaneously, occurring forever…

-AAA 10/09/2024

Words Of Old

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Words of old 

Are all told by many 

With such experience.

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Great legends unfold

From hero to penny ante

With frequent recurrence.

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Cowardly or bold 

There’s no limit to any

Shallow or dense.

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Read and sold 

These stories are in plenty

Providing a recompense…

-AAA 10/09/2024

I Was Disgustingly Yours

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I once was yours 

In that vain 

Endless chores

Pouring rain.

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Hateful notions

Thrown at me 

Lackluster devotion

In an empty sea.

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Promises given 

But never delivered

Agendas hidden

Coldness shivered 

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Heartless mental abuse 

At your very hands 

In my pain you’d amuse 

Making other sticky plans.

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Inside was out 

And outside in 

Matriarchal clout 

Cold ice within.

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You though you were clever

That I’d eternally chomp at the bit

Until I saw never, your forever

Then I wised up and quit.

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Less and less I look back 

All the lessons have been learned

I greatly suffered from your lack

Someday, your karma will be returned…

-AAA 10/09/2024

Fall Harvest Bounty 

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The crops are ready

The time is now

Work them rocksteady

Get off your plow.

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Grab all the baskets 

Fill them to the top 

Work and be tacit 

As you harvest the crop.

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Time is of the essence

Make your work fast

Only with your presence

Can this bounty last.

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With aggregate need 

You tussle and toil 

So that many will feed 

From this fertile rich soil.

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Grab the trucks

And your van 

Load them with your bounty 

As fast as you can.

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For hunger grows 

In this small town 

God only knows 

This horrible noun.

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The trucks are gone 

With food in tow 

The fields move on

With new crops to grow…

-AAA 10/09/2024

FOWC With Fandango – Birthday

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http://mymindmappings.com/2024/10/10/fowc-with-fandango-birthday/

Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “birthday.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.

And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.

EARTH DAY BIRTHDAY   

Earth Day 

Was his birthday

He shared this occasion

With some ovation.

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Some elation 

And celebration

Pomp and circumstance 

Some songs and dance.

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Cake for all 

Relatives call

Sharing fun 

Under the sun

Until the day is done

And next year, a better one…

-AAA 10/09/2024

Word Of The Day Challenge 

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Withdraw

Today’s Word of the day is Withdraw.

This word is the contribution of our co-administrator of the Word of the Day Challenge blog, Alice, from The59club.blog.

If you want to participate, create a pingback to link your post. Not sure how to do that? See how to create pingbacks here. Please note that for the prompts that I publish, the comment box will now remain open for people who experience trouble with pingbacks. However, I won’t guarantee a quick response to actual comments, that would be left here. If you have questions, or ideas you’d like to submit, please use our “contact” page.

WITHOUT A GOODBYE

I withdraw my claim on your heart

A claim you never would accept 

I knew this from the very first start 

At the realization I softly wept.

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Generosity for you was just a word 

Mind games and tricks emptied my soul

It boggles the mind of all that occurred

Continuously under your control.

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Why were you so cruel

I guess I’ll never know 

Playing me for a fool 

That’s how it would go.

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I imagine your shock and anger 

That I had the gall to leave 

Your mind, filled with rancor 

For losing my money, you’d grieve.

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I doubt you learned a thing 

With all the pain you wrought 

Another was your king 

You just were never caught.

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Smoke your cigarettes 

And bide your time 

Karma will find you soon I bet

Repaying all your emotional crimes…

-AAA 10/09/2024

Love Is Many Things

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Love is the ideal 

Playing it all by feel 

Satisfaction like a meal

The feelings are real 

Almost stronger than steel 

Loaded with appeal 

The heart, is its seal 

Let me turn the wheel 

No room at all for zeal.

❤️

Love is not wrong 

Hear it in a song 

It’s great to belong 

Even in a throng

Am I wrong?

❤️

Love is pure and true 

Like a sky full of blue 

Fun for me and you 

And I’m not quite through.

❤️

Love is never cruel 

Not played like a fool

Or used like a tool

Or worse yet a mule

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Love with your passion 

Not a passing fashion

With mutual attraction 

Not a separate faction

Or reduced like a fraction

That’s at least my reaction❤️❤️❤️

-AAA 10/08/2024

The Deepest Darkest Infinity And Light 

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We are all drifting 

At one hundred thousand miles

An hour in space

Deep dark space with many stars

Far far too many to count.

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But trust me they’re there 

A billion pin pricks alight

Warming up the cold 

expanse in all directions

Is there really life out there???

-AAA 10/07/2024

Missy’s MAD Challenge # 010

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http://madmissywork.blog/2024/10/07/missys-mad-challenge-010/

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

  • At that moment

KNOW YOURSELF

Knowing who you are.

Will help you at that moment,

you feel any doubts…

-AAA 10/07/2024

No Words Just Actions 

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Suddenly she’s upon me.

I can hear her softly breathing.

Fast and steady her breath is her want 

And I will satisfy each and more. 

It’s dark but I can make the outlines 

of her face and body as she straddles me.

She kisses me with the passion of a starving person receiving a hearty meal. 

I return her kisses in kind and kiss her neck.

Flames of mutual desire ignite and rage on all night…

-AAA 10/07/2024

Women Are Superior

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Women are superior

To all of us men

We simply are inferior.

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From fawn to mother hen 

Women are smarter

Rare exception now and then.

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Their chromosomes for starters

They have two X’s

Genetically they’re just hardier.

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That’s why they’re the fairer sexes 

They’ll outlive us all

For some men, it vexes.

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But I don’t mind at all

Without them there’d be no birth

Men having babies, humanity would fall.

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An unpopulated earth 

We can’t bear the pain

Or appreciate the worth.

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Women are stronger in that vain 

They can handle a lot

What drives men insane.

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The instincts they’ve got 

To care and love 

For their children they’ve fought.

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They’re blessings from above

Some say they came from a rib

Patience and peace like a dove.

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They often change you in your crib 

They wash you and sing you songs

When eating they change your bib.

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In childhood righting all your wrongs

Giving lessons and advice

In caring arms where we belong.

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Their gentle souls are quite nice

Patience, virtue, complexity, smarts

I’ve seen exception, three times or twice.

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But generally they have amazing hearts

Capacity to feel all feelings there are

And the wisdom each imparts.

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Walking, and talking, or in your car

Passionate and unafraid

Even with emotional scars.

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Their will obeyed

It’s the least we can do

They are not maids.

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Or a cleaning crew 

They accomplish much more

Than us men can do.

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So know the score

I place them on a pedestal

Now and forever more…

-AAA 10/05/2024 

Nero’s Lesson 

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Art, Untitled (Blue) by Pinchas Maryan

Leaders that hate 

Leaders like Nero 

There’s no debate

They’re absolute zero.

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Compassion lacking

Hatred up front 

Cruelty gobsmacking

Insanely blunt.

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War is hell

A hell they love

Their people aren’t well

Poverty they shove.

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Propaganda and lies 

Political machines

Mother and babe cries  

And all in between.

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Murder or revolution

Will make them retire

A simple conclusion 

Like Nero and the Roman Empire.

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Ché, Pott, Castro, Perón

Lenin, Stalin, Pinochet, and Hitler

Men content to be alone

No exceptions, a stickler.

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Death before compromise

Led to bitter ends 

Only now can we surmise 

What tyranny portends.

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Societies fall, it’s no riddle

As the world turns

Nero and his proverbial fiddle

Playing as his Rome burns…

-AAA 10/05/2024

The Hard Honest Truth 

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Facts as they are 

Nothing but the truth

Lessons leave a scar.

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I know it’s uncouth

But life is quite hard

You want some proof?

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Well in this regard 

Look in the mirror

And look real hard.

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Only then you’ll care

And make concessions

For life it will scare.

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When applying its lessons

Many with some pain

Save your confessions.

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For the criminally insane

You know yourself

Just use your brain.

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For knowledge is wealth

The memories are here

No need for stealth.

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Get your life in gear

Get off of your phone

Stop shedding your tears

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Sabbatical out of your comfort zone

Challenge your every skill

Remember that you and you alone.

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Can swallow the ‘red pill’

End all your strife

Using your sheer will.

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Finally get a life

While you can

Find a new wife.

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Lend a helping hand 

Share your mistakes

At will, your command.

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Show that even when life breaks

And things go off unplanned

Doing all that it takes 

Only then, you’ll understand…

-AAA 10/05/2024