Category: poetry

Stories Of Old 

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Tell me your secrets of old

Of magic times in distant lands

Before my heart grows cold 

Tell me while I understand.

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Tales of the valiant and brave

Princesses and castles long gone

Plenty of heroes and occasional knave

Sit with me quietly and I’ll go on.

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Magicians and jesters 

And all in between

Evil princes that pester

Great kings that might have been.

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Sorcery and witchcraft ate afoot

Watch out where you move and see

One bad step and your journeys’s moot

You be all trapped instead of free.

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Not all witches are evil or bad

Some cast nice magic spells 

While others may drive you mad

With only time can you tell.

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Swordsman and maidens everywhere

Countless battles and wars fought

Treasure and riches beyond compare 

Life and death as destiny’s wrought.

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Persons poor, humble, and proud 

Beginnings so harsh they’re barely alive

Triumphant trumpet fanfares aloud 

Just open your ears and close your eyes.

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Maidens sporting ethereal gowns 

Knights in armor non-discreet

Dressed for battle, many pounds  

A battle ax, now they’re complete.

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The stories are long and vivid too 

Written over hundreds of years 

Knowing them all are a privileged few

Most have gone on to eternity I fear.

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Giants, goblins, elves, and dwarfs

Have their part in the stories as well

Mystical creatures of every sort

Some heavenly, while others from hell.

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Amulets, necklaces, and rings 

There value one cannot comprehend

Golden bobbles and other things

All these treasures make your mind bend.

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Pay a tribute to the oracles for truth

Only in the currency of gold 

Lacking this wisdom denies you, soothe

Or any other answer they could tell.

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Find a place comfortable and soft

Enjoying all tales and their spin

In a warm bedroom or a cozy loft 

Open the pages, and let’s begin…

-AAA 09/27/2024

Ethos Pathos and Logos 

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I am good 

My words will prove it

Just read them.

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Life is hard 

We’ve all been through much

Making us stronger.

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With each lesson 

Bettering our lives and ourselves

Means living happy.

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A rhetorical triangle

Really drives my point home

Love, learn, live…

-AAA 09/26/2024 

FOWC Challenge With Fandango -Acid

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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 “acid.”

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.

CRUEL WOMAN

Her tone, acidic.

Here words were all venomous.

Filled with his torment…

-AAA 09/26/2024

Mastering Life

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When will it be enough

Why must we be so tough.

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Life can be cruel and so unfair 

But it’s worth, beyond compare.

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When we reach, “enough”, we know life’s worth

That’s a big part of our time here on earth.

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The setbacks are the worst 

Likened to unsatisfied thirst.

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Lessons must be learned

Yet the earth must turn.

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Life without strife 

Just wouldn’t be life.

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So when things don’t go your way 

Take pause, meditate, and pray.

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Things can be so much worse

Life’s hardships are not a curse.

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Teaching us what we need to know 

In order to become better and grow.

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Master the lessons and pass the test

And make this lifetime your very best…

-AAA 09/25/2024

FOWC With Fandango -Want

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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 “want.”

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.

WANTS AND NEEDS

I want to live my best life now.

I need to keep my physical and mental health in check.

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I want that ideal love that happens once in a lifetime.

I need to love myself first and trust in divine timing.

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I want to be a successful published writer.

I need to continue blogging, honing my craft, and amassing a volume of material.

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I want financial security.

I need to stay fast, keep chugging away, pay down debts and save.

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I want control.

I need to accept that many aspects of our lives are beyond our control and that how we react in critical moments is in our control.

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I want peace of mind.

I need to accept my past and not mull the future.

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I want happiness.

I need to accept that happiness is a choice and not a destination.

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I want freedom.

I need to understand, freedom is always present: in choices, challenges, and living…

-AAA 09/24/2024

Missy’s MAD Challenge # 008

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http://madmissywork.blog/2024/09/23/mad-missys-challenge-008/

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

  • Should have

MEANS TO AN END

I should have left you

A lot sooner than I did

Was just a paycheck

You never cared about me 

I was just a means to an end…

-AAA 09/23/2024

Back At My Beach 

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The serendipitous tide

Laps water along the side.

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Bubbles rise out of wet sand

If you’re lucky, small sand crab in hand.

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Rubbery kelp floats by bearing odd fruit

Sometimes entangled with our swimsuits

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The salty scent of the ocean is clean 

Adding beauty to all that is seen.

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Gulls fill the air gliding like ships

Ready to feast on any bag of chips.

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The sand is soft support for walks

Just be wary of super sharp rocks.

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Waves crash hard a saltwater burst

If you drink any, it’s instant thirst.

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Transistor radios crackle alive

One playing “I Will Survive”.

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Sea and Ski and coconut fill the air

As beachgoers protect their skin with care.

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This beach was my beach when as a kid

Nowadays it’s undergone such a skid…

-AAA 9/23/2024

Office Supplies Indeed 

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Rubber band be free

When I stretch you, don’t snap me

It’s fair can you see???

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Paper clip don’t slip

Lest my efforts be a blip

Pages lose their grip.

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Yellow post-it note

Display my every quote

To you, I devote.

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My sharp friend, thumb tack

You make things stay with your back

Keeping me on track.

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Just staple it all

Without you order would fall

So, answer the call.

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Please erase the rest

Clean up what I messed

Especially on a test…

-AAA 9/23/2024

Three Things Challenge #M826

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Three Things Challenge #M826

Your three words today are:

WRITTEN

PAPER

ESSAY

DIVORCE SUPPORT 101

She’d written her essay

All the words are down 

She says he says at play 

It’s cringeworthy of a frown.

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The papers are filed 

The marriage is over 

All that misery piled 

All sadness hovers.

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He left to save his life

She watched her lifestyle end

All breakups invite strife 

Resulting in losing friends.

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No one truly understands 

How hard these things are

Unless you’ve lived it firsthand

Only then, would we be on par.

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So if you have a friend 

Or family member 

Have their marriage end

Try and remember 

What I just said…

-AAA 08/23/2024

Satisfaction is Now

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Do today what want to tomorrow 

Your regret is comfortless sorrow.

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Do what you will as you might

Live each day for your delight.

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Take chances turn off your phone

Venture out to nature on your own.

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Get off the grid and disconnect

Then your peace will circumvent.

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All that has gone and all that remains

Needn’t cause you endless pain.

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Live in the now and live in today

Who gives a care about yesterday.

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Tomorrow’s not promised so lower your eyes

Look at this moment and claim the prize.

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As the pain contorted, drops from your face

And you’re filled with peace, gratitude, grace.

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I know your life’s lessons have been hard

But ease up on yourself in that regard.

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The past mistakes shouldn’t be dire

If you deny this then you are a liar.

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Overcome all the obstacles placed

And watch as frustration’s erased.

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You’re better now, than ever before 

And you’re feeling happiness more.

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So, do remember that you did survive 

Reap the rewards of your lessons, alive…

-AAA 09/22/2024

Thank Hank…

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Hank a proctologist was fading fast

His job became a literal pain in the ass

So much to see he’d love to forget

Hemorrhoids and polyps of regret

Now the sun sets on his patients past…

-AAA 09/22/2024

Sunday Whirl Wordle #672

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BWarren is our host for the Sunday Whirl Wordle and you can join in HERE

Our words are:

quivers, limbs, scattered, yellow, twirl, hearts, streak, faint, bags, three, howls, long

DARKNESS CHASING ME HOME

I shiver and quiver as night falls

A yellow moon completes it all.

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Each limb shakes for my fear of the dark 

The daylight fades fast as I leave the park.

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I twirl around fast and sprint home 

My heart jumps hearing three long howls, I’m not alone.

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Moonlight scattered through dark trees 

Streaks of occasional faint light, not enough to appease.

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As I run, the night life all has its say 

Crickets, owls, other sounds, all along the way.

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Almost home now, feet don’t drag

Lest I might end up in body bag.

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My familiar street, I’m nearly there 

At the moment, not else will compare.

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My front door opens, warm familiar light

I fast scurry in and escape the night…

-AAA 09/22/2024

What Do They Know?

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Most astrophysicists know when stars will die

Yet, we cannot feed all of the food poor?

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Some people, can memorize entire dictionaries

Yet, large homeless tent cities are everywhere. 

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Economists can predict recessions or inflation

Yet the political divide has never been so enormous…

-AAA 9/22/2024

Word Of The Day Challenge

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Subscription

Today’s Word of the day is Subscription.

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.

BELIEF IN SOMETHING, LARGER

My subscription

Our prescription

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Precognition

No omission.

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Recollection

Of intention 

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Not to mention

An ascension

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New dimension

Comprehension

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Our protection

Good direction

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Contemplation

Then ovation

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Last, elation

All duration…

-AAA 09/21/2024

FOWC With Fandango -Install

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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 “install.”

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.

INSTALL

Install new mental attitudes

Instill the more positive moods

Move outside your norm

No need to conform

Weather storms

As one should…

-AAA 09/21/2024

Caresses

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“Touch me very softly”, she said

So I caressed her precious head

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Running my fingers through hair

I can hear her gently sigh

Her feelings safe with none to fear

She closes both of her eyes

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She drifts and floats to welcomed sleep

I hold her and her breathing is deep

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She has a dream of a crystal clear lake

And the waters ebb in gentle waves

I have my dream, but I am awake

Receiving the love that my heart craves

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She awakens well rested after a while

And I continue to hold her with a smile…

-aaa ❤️

Originally Published 05/03/2024

Ethereal Cosmos

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True Love When Two Become One by Anthony Falbo

Sweet taste on my tongue.

Overwhelmed by your fragrance.

A million lilies…

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A delicate touch.

Makes me tingle all over.

Softer than velour.

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An endless embrace.

We cannot let go just yet.

Passion won’t let us.

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Breathless long kisses.

Each its own eternity.

Of many desires.

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The heat, relentless.

It’s burning flames lick our skin.

Setting us on fire.

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We both are consumed.

Two hearts beat faster as one.

As we melt and merge.

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We are at union.

We cannot outlast the stars.

We try with effort.

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Our brightness now dims.

Falling fast through time and space.

We now gently rest….

-aaa

Originally Published 05/03/2024