Category: poetry

Saturday’s All Write

Anthony3 Comments

Saturday morning 

And it’s time to hustle 

Without warning 

Must use my creative muscle.

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Placing some prose 

From mind to phone 

Plenty of those 

Quiet, here, alone.

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Coining a phrase 

Or three or four 

Whatever the case

I must write more.

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My Friday views 

Are often low 

Why all readers less choose

I guess I’ll never know 

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All the while

I’ll get it straight

Write and file 

Until I’ve done eight.

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Micro poems 

A haiku or two 

A Clogyrnach gem

Or Dizain in view.

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Then I can relax 

Free of sorrow

Have a few snacks 

Or write for tomorrow…

-AAA 10/05/2024

NICE GUYS FINISHED LAST UNTIL…

Anthony17 Comments

What am I good for?

That’s a great question

I’ve been asked before 

With a little concession.

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Why am I so sensitive?

My ex-wife of asked 

As if it was preventative

“Be a man” I was tasked.

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But what if I was every bit a man?

As a less sensitive contemporary

That’d violate all your plans 

As you made me feel less exemplary.

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What if I knew all they did?

In passion and love as well

But you never accepted my bid

Preferring to treat me like hell.

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Do nice guys finish last? 

The truth is we pretty much do

Until the world wakes up fast

Excepting our point of view.

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Are we to be counted out? 

Absolutely not 

As our loyalty is devout

Only then not an afterthought…

-AAA 10/04/2024

Street Lights, Yesterday and Today 

Anthony11 Comments

When street lights turn on we take a double 

Remembering in childhood of the trouble

We could never ever be late 

As our parents would wait 

As we turned the nob on the front door

It’d be a welcome or punishment for sure 

I had my first watch at that time 

Always checking, to prevent this crime

Many calendars later I’m far older

As the street lights up I bravely soldier

Out for a night on the town or a drink 

Walking the boulevards, pause and think

Growing was easier but curfews did stink…

-AAA 10/04/2024

QOTD #200

Anthony2 Comments

What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?

To answer today’s question of the day, I’ve decided to flex my creativity. I hope you enjoy.

TIME MARCHES ON 🕰️

Fifty years was old, until you reached it 

Honestly, novel, unless you preached it.

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Expensive just a word until you’ve spent it 

Money quite abundant, until you’ve lent it.

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Time everlasting until it’s all gone 

Criticism lambasting but you carry on.

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Twenty, quite young but no so long ago 

It was a milestone age for us you know.

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New music trends and all our ovations 

Now audible on Classic Rock stations.

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Naps were sacrilege at our youngest age

Now at age fifty-two, they’re quite the rage.

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Nostalgia floods us with TV shows passed

Now streaming on services, mind surpassed.

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Fast food we ate up at eighteen in a flash 

Now more like reconstituted tasteless trash.

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Movies that were amazing in our youth 

Seem lame, older in our own the truth.

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Our politics change like underwear 

We became informed and started to care.

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World events touch us like never before

Educated, experienced, we know the score.

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In youth, growing old seems such a change 

In reality, considerably more is rearranged…

-AAA 10/04/2024

NOTHING 

Anthony9 Comments

Nothing is what you gave 

Nothing is what you are 

Nothing for us to save 

Nothing even now, afar.

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Nothing is what you’ll do 

Nothing is what you stand for

Nothing left for me to do 

Nothing but closing that door.

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Nothing is what you had in your heart

Nothingness you steered me to 

Nothing from the very start

Nothing but relief, now that we’re through…

-AAA 10/03/2024

What Else Do You Need?

Anthony7 Comments

What else do you need

Glaciers retreat every year

Ocean temps are up.

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What else do you need

Droughts all seem to last longer

Famine runs rampant.

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What else do you need

Rain seems to fall much harder

Than it did before.

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What else do you need

Once in a century floods

Occur more often.

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What else do you need

Stagnant air is hard to breathe

Making many sick.

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What else do you need

Massive brushfires scorch the earth

Death and destruction.

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What else do you need

Hottest years on average 

In these last few years.

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What else do you need

Whether our fault or the sun’s

It doesn’t matter.

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What else do you need

I’m just not sure at this point

I think too late…

-AAA 10/03/2024

Unanswered Questions

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What do you do?

What do you do when your dreams don’t come true?

What should you do?

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What do you feel?

What do you feel when the world is too real?

What should you feel?

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What do you say?

What do you say at the end of the day?

What could you say?

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What do we give?

What do we give with just one to live?

What should we give?

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How do you dream?

How do you dream when your life is serene?

How could you dream?

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How will you be?

How will you be when no one can see?

How should you be?

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How fast do you run?

How fast do you run when you’re running from the sun?

How fast could you run?

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How do you love?

How do you love like a star up above?

How should you love?

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What do you want?

What do you want just a quick little jaunt?

What should you want?

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How do you play?

How do you play just a roll in the hay?

How could you play?

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How will this poem end?

How will this poem end, my dear friend?

When I say it ends.

-aaa

Journey To Your Self

Anthony8 Comments

Don’t sweat the small stuff

Our life is very long

Take each lesson even if rough

In stride for one day you’ll be strong.

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Take each opportunity

That comes your way

Don’t get caught up in scrutiny

Make the most of every day.

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Just keep going

You’re always in motion

Crushing your journey

With your inner devotion.

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Someday you’ll move miles

And on others just inches

Do so with a smile

Even when life pinches.

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Always experience grace

With general gratitude

Move at your own pace

Exhibit a positive attitude.

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This journey is important

It’s where you become the best

The steepest climbs are potent

But you will pass this test.

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Now give yourself a hug

Because you’ve nearly made it

Feel your heart and pride tug

For the progress you created…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/11/2024

Cali Shakes Again…

Anthony6 Comments

Here we go again 

Another earthquake 

Will the shaking end 

If not, a lot will break.

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What does the future boast

Will the quakes get worst 

Will inland become the coast?

All these fault lines were cursed.

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Be it Malibu, Bakersfield, or Highland Park

Ontario, Corona, all over the state 

I dislike earthquakes, especially in the dark

Everything will get broken at this rate.

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We call ourselves “earthquake country”

Because of the regularity here in California

On our toes, we always have to be 

Price to pay for such beauty and euphoria.

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Ever since I was a kid 

We get these things occasionally 

Everything in the house would slide and skid 

Momentary instability.

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With everything moving everywhere

I really don’t enjoy them, honestly

It really can put on a scare

With such massive entropy…

-AAA 10/01/2024

Success And All That Comes With It

Anthony2 Comments

Eve of distinction

Tomorrow will be the day

You just see.

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Day of distinction

Has finally arrived just now

Enjoy it all.

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It’s your time

You’ve worked so very hard

You deserve it.

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Bask in accomplishment

Stay you and stay humble 

No matter what.

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Stay within yourself 

Don’t get drunk with success

It’ll destroy you…

-AAA 10/01/2024

Missy’s MAD Challenge # 009

Anthony3 Comments

http://madmissywork.blog/2024/09/30/missys-mad-challenge-009/

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

  • She should’ve left…

NO GOODBYES

She shouldn’t have left

Without saying a goodbye

She shattered my heart 

Into a thousand pieces 

All left are the memories…

-AAA 09/30/2024

MUTUAL PASSIONS SATISFIED 

Anthony5 Comments

Soft tender temptation

Heat under a warm blanket

Anything can happen.

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Endless long kisses

And much much more happening

Almost too much.

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Riding waves together

Waves of unbridled passions abound

All being realized.

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Reaching our peak

Then restful tendrils of relief 

In interlocked arms.

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Together we sleep

The deepest satisfying rest possible

With many dreams…

-AAA 09/29/2024

Terza Rima Friday Night 

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It’s Friday Night

After a crazy week

All is in sight.

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As I try not to freak

It’s all under control

As long as I don’t speak.

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Digging myself out of this hole

Is never very easy

Trying my best to go with the flow.

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Sometimes my words are cheesy

Other times they have their charm

Be it tranquil or somewhat breezy.

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Never want to cause alarm

Or even a scare

I haven’t checked out of the farm

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I know you would care

Because you’ve shown it

And that you’re aware.

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That I’ve grown from it

And I’ve matured too

I can silently sit.

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Contemplate a memory or two

My life has been so long

I don’t always know what to do.

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So I put on a favorite song

As music soothes my troubled mind

And I play it all day and night long.

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Always gets me out of a bind

Or a writer’s block case 

Often words, I’ll suddenly find.

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Right in front of my face

Obvious and my choice 

It’s a shock I ever misplaced.

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I’ve definitely found my voice

Using words instead of screams

Now I truly can rejoice.

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Relaxing as it seems

Until the next challenges arise

Using all within my means.

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It’s no surprise

To live in an ideal

As I now surmise.

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Laying back after a meal

Dabbling in my poetry

Writing tercets by feel…

-AAA 09/27/2024

Ten Minute Texas Thunderstorm 

Anthony5 Comments

Midnight darkness slowly, gradually fills an increasingly less silent sky.

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Thickening cauliflower clouds with dark bottoms rapidly blow by.

Alternating warm and cool breezes rise and fall directions. 

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First a single delicate drop tickles my right cheek like a kiss from the sky.

I run for cover as the impending deluge finally arrives in violent bursts dancing to the music of whispering winds.

Then a brilliant blinding white flash with a concussive answer of thunder punctuating the watery torrent…

-AAA 09/27/2024