Category: Quatrain

310 & 626

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310 and 626 are in love

But robots are not allowed

They feel destined from above

Differing from their metallic crowd.

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The rules are clear, rigid, and fixed

No exceptions can be made 

No emotional ties for models 1 through 6

Their love seems forbade.

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How could it be with all binary laws

That this came to be 

Are they mere flaws 

Or maybe destiny?

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Artificial or not is love real

And should it be restrained 

For only living beings that can feel 

Not for synthetic robots that are trained.

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The arguments continue from all sides 

Will these robots be forced to the void

Will their feelings abide 

Or will they be destroyed???

-AAA 01/19/2025

Three Things Challenge #941

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Three Things Challenge #M941

Your three words today are:

OPEN

OPAQUE

OPAL

Misaligned 

He was an opal 

She was opaque

He was an open-book 

Close vest pocket was her take.

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He shared his desires and dreams

She was tight-lipped of such things 

He wanted to be close

She required that he’d have wings.

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He shared his love 

She held hers back 

He was non-maligned

While she would attack.

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He softened his words

Whilst hers were harsh

He expressed how things felt 

She disappeared for Marche.

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He tried to bridge the gap 

She spoke what he needn’t hear

His honesty, used against him

Her self-righteousness, a spear.

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Foolishly he married her

Thinking she’d change 

It ended badly in divorce 

and that isn’t strange…

-AAA 01/16/2025

Rise Above Cruel Words

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Lift up high 

Over your head 

Do not cry

Over what was said.

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Words can maim

When used to hurt 

Not the same 

Or just deserved.

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Knowing you

Is all that counts

Some askew 

By the accounts.

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Make a space

Between heard and feel

Well in place 

Response ideal.

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Consciousness

Is deep inside

Don’t regress

Or hide behind pride

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Take in stride 

All that you’ve heard

Don’t abide

Such cruel words.

-AAA 01/15/2025

Three Quantrains on Speech

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When words are spoken

Mean what you say

Truth is unbroken

Keep it that way.

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Choose them with care

Don’t give into fears

Lay yourself bare

Even with tears.

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Just use your head

Go with the flow

Follow your heart instead

Since it’s what you know.

-aaa

Originally Published 06/11/2024

Tick Tock

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Tick tock tick tock 

The time is now 

Tick tock tick tock

Fulfill your vow.

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Tick tock tick tock

Don’t hesitate 

Tick tock tick tock

Remove debate.

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Tick tock tick tock

Moments arrived 

Tick tock tick tock

You are alive. 

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Tick tock tick tock

Don’t miss your chance

Tick tock tick tock

You will advance.

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Tick tock tick tock

So much to show

Tick tock tick tock

Ready set go!!!

-AAA 01/12/2025

Summer Of Twenty-Two

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Same time last summer 

Why was it a bummer 

You had a deep need

That I could never feed.

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When you said goodbye

Rivers of tears I cried

When I realized you didn’t care

I relearned that life isn’t fair.

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I put it all on the table 

But your love was a fable

Painfully knowing all too late 

That to you I wasn’t great.

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The passions we shared

Were beyond compare

Yet you took another lover

Your lies were uncovered. 

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Not my lover not my friend 

Didn’t have my back in the end

It’d be easy to hope for hell 

But in the end I wish you well.

-AAA 01/06/2025

Take Your Time

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Take your time 

Do not rush 

Moments fine

If you push.

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All in stride

Doesn’t hurt

Deep inside

Is our worth.

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Manage you 

In your lane

Less miscues

And less pain

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Change is good  

As we grow

We’re understood

All will know.

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Reaching goals

All laid out

Paying tolls

So devout.

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Smile not sad

Trying best

Isn’t bad

Take a rest.

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Then look back 

At all done

You’re on track

Life is fun…

-AAA 01/03/2025

Doers Do

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Lovers love 

Haters hate 

Stars above

Time is fate.

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Soldiers fight

Students learn

Darkness, night

World still turns.

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Livers live

Takers take

Givers give

Bakers bake.

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Artists paint

Dreamers dream

Maidens faint

Dairies, cream.

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Players play

Talkers speak

Slayers slay

Sadness bleaks

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Runners run

Lifters lift

Authors pun

Grifters grift.

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Liars lie

Tellers tell

Apples pie 

Sellers sell.

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Sowers sow

Greeters greet

Rowers row

Meeters meet.

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Endings end

So must I

Write portend

Words won’t die…

-AAA 12/24/2024

Not Returning 

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Over the edge 

It’s time to fall

Nothing to dredge

You’ve cleared it all.

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Accept your fate

Gravity is strong

It’s far too late 

Moving along.

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No need to panic

What’s done is done

Don’t get manic 

Reality hits a ton. 

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Change is hard 

But sometimes needed

In this regard 

Learn what is heeded.

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Grow stronger 

Each and every day

The distance grows longer

You’re on your way…

-AAA 12/23/2024

Feisty Bumble Bee

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Feisty buzzing bumble bee

Some lift high above the trees

Flying wonder we all can see

Or catch a lift on a summer breeze.

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Finding all the pretty flowering plants

Gathering nectar slightly sweet 

Taking each opportunity and chance

Until their mission is complete…

-AAA 12/23/2024

Fire Journey

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Standing against a fierce gale

A weighted pack upon my back

Taking on my largest fail

And using it to get on track

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One step then two

Forward I move

My destination looms

As I get into my groove

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Further, now I slowly progress

Pebbles and stones sting my face

Stepping into a new life was for the best

Your happiness will never go to waste

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The steepness of this whistling hill

Is now slowly abating

Continuing the journey still

For a great future that’s waiting

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The wind whips a final fury

As I reach the top of the hill

The final vertical awaits among the jury

As I reached the summit by my sheer will

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I looked down from the top

And I can’t believe how far it goes

This phase, my evolution is at a stop

And I take stock of my previous woes

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Who I am and who I’ll be

Was determined by this trek

The world will have to wait and see

My greatness versus the previous spec

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Jubilation fills my heart

As I celebrate on this ridge

New exciting adventures will start

Now that I’ve crossed this shaky bridge

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This is the end of the the beginning

Applying the lessons I’ve learned

This former loser now is winning

A life of happiness I have earned.

-aaa 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Originally Published 04/17/2024

The Odd Duck

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Stop staring at me

You don’t know me at all

Keep your judgements to yourself

Or else you’ll be the one to take the fall.

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Just because I’m not like you

Doesn’t mean I’m in the wrong

I’ll beat to my own drummer

And I sing a different song.

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Nonconformity is not a sin

It’s just another way to live life

True uniqueness and weirdness too

Has sometimes been a personal strife.

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In my youth I wanted to belong

So much so that it made me sad

But when I didn’t fit in with my peers

It often left me feeling bad.

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What could I say to myself

If I could journey back in time

Words of encouragement and self love

Like “No, Anthony, you’re not a slime”

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So I let these words flow out of me

My aims are honest and true

I love this oddball of a guy

And I think the world will too…

-aaa

Originally Published 06/01/2024

Wish Me A Fish

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Wish me a fish 

Make me a dish 

That is delish

Fulfill my wish.

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Tell me a tale 

About a whale

Who, without fail

was never frail.

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Sing me a song 

I’ll sing along

Would that be wrong

Would it belong?

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Share a secret 

Never forget 

Alone regret

Is a tough bet.

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Show me your dance

I’ll watch you prance

Per happenstance

At my first chance.

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Let’s end this rhyme

It’s about time 

and not a crime

Likely sublime…

-AAA 12/04/2024

Hater Comments Designed to Maim

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Haters will hate

So the adage says

The ill will they propagate

Can last for days.

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Using inflammatory words

They viciously strike you

Though their reasoning is absurd

They have nothing better to do.

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We all work hard as we write

Our efforts on virtual parchment, blood

Another such soul struck tonight

And I felt the anger and hurt, flood.

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I really need a thicker skin

I shouldn’t even care

After reading what was said within

I had no smile to bear.

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Some folks oughta get a life

Rather than writing words unclean

Not since my ex-wife

Have I read such text, so mean.

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We’re all authors, trying to succeed

Not hurt each other for sport

Encouragement is my true creed

Not succumbing to petty resorts.

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Maybe it’s bitter envy I don’t know

What motivates one to hurt another

Maybe someone loses control

And just chooses to choke and smother.

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I guess I just don’t know anymore

Why people would rather be dogging

Instead of setting out, resentful what more

Maybe just concentrate on blogging?

-aaa

Originally Published 05/27/2024

Broken 

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IV tubes 

Bruises purple and blue and red

She stirs in pain 

From a cold hospital bed.

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Her surgery is done

Fixing her femur shattered

Broken in three places

Her comfort is what matters.

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As hourly nurses in poke and prod 

She tries to rest if she can 

Putting the pieces back together

Will be her next plan,

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Immobile and needing care 

Future physical therapy so she can walk

Everything has been so scary

She’s so weak she can barely talk.

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She’ll bide her time and regain strength

Confined to her cold hospital bed 

Twists and turns of the challenge before her 

Are troubling her once peaceful head…

-AAA 11/22/2024

Word of The Day “Neglected”

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Neglected

Four Quatrains of Neglect

Oppressed husband and cruel life – Steemit

I felt quite neglected

It’s just that simple

Didn’t receive love as expected

Instead of a wave, a ripple

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I adored you every day

And do many little things

That’s why I feel dismay

That inequality brings

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I told you truth

And dealt with your vice

You were always were uncouth

With your pack of lies

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As I pay this final alimony

It hurts me like a knife

A manipulating phony

And never quite a wife…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/19/2024

Current Music, Just Isn’t The Same 

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How do people listen to auto-tuned junk 

Rather than the protest of hardcore punk

Or George Clinton and his Parliament funk

Modern music, far too easy to debunk.

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What would the youngsters do or say 

If they heard all the music I had to play

With unaided singer’s, all out on display

Non computerized instruments at the fray.

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Probably, they’d find me crazy but I’m not 

Just using these enormous ears I’ve got 

Knowing a difference between art and rot

It’s just the weirdo that I am believe it or not.

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Your music brain needs more to eat

Than loud bass and persistent beat 

Those songs feed my rapid retreat

Into my own music then I’m compete.

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Don’t give me static when I cringe and frown 

When I hear overuse of bass going down 

I’ll wear my headphones like my crown

Playing the best music that can be found…

-AAA 11/17/2024

No Happy Endings Aka The Leftovers

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For some of us, there are no happy endings

No twenty year anniversaries to celebrate

Instead, divorces with alimonies pending

Leaves us remaining of in a frazzled state.

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Some were high school sweethearts

Or college friends from long ago

Many of which lead to two happy hearts

While the rest of us are just status quo.

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What did we do that was so wrong?

To end up with such gruesome loves

I guess we sang to a different song

With circling vultures instead of doves.

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We try our best to not have envy

Watching you all celebrate

Hold it together as best we can be

Looking only to ourselves, to appreciate.

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A pure love that we all read about

That is what your lives have shown

Selflessness and sacrifice in large amount

Those things, from others, we’ve never known.

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So please remember us, solitary souls

As your anniversary years accrue

As we’re finding all the answers alone

Remember, you’re lucky, that someone truly loves you…

-AAA 05/17/2024

Originally Published 05/17/2024

Ever Present

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When does today become yesterday

When does present become the past

It must be before midnight, I dare say 

Certainly, its finality, will find you fast. 

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So cherish each moment 

Before they are all gone

Lest you’ll suffer lament

But we must carry on…

-AAA 11/15/2024

Three Things Challenge #878

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Three Things Challenge #M878

Your three words today are:

CONCISE

PRECISE

PRECIOUS

Write As You Are

When you write 

Be concise 

To the point 

Just precise.

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Precious time 

That you spend 

Creating prose 

That never ends.

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Stanzas form 

Lines shape up 

Words fit nice 

From the cuff.

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Consciousness

Steams my mind

On paper

Other kinds.

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Many forms 

I attempt 

Not unique 

Or exempt.

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Some are short 

Some are long 

Some silly 

Others strong.

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In the end 

They are me

My own words 

Set me free.

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I love just 

Being me 

Writing is 

Meant to be…

-AAA 11/14/2024

Ghosted And Dropped

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In this time of crying.

You don’t see me there.

Gasping, choking, sighing.

Desperately, grasping for air.

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Why did you leave me?

Where did you go?

Why must you deceive me?

I am reeling from the blow.

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What did I do?

That wasn’t good enough.

Why weren’t you true?

This deception was rough.

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All of your kisses.

Truly didn’t mean a thing.

My perceived hits were misses.

Hence, I was never your king.

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I thought you were my forever.

Forever, plus a day.

In reality you were never.

Ever intending to stay.

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First, you started ghosting.

Avoiding me in chat.

Barely responding to my posting.

You left me hard and flat.

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You said you couldn’t love me.

When I told you “I love you”.

Your rejection, just crushed me.

At the time knowing not what I’d do.

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So I bitterly reminisce you.

Now that you’re long gone.

And I’ll never again kiss you.

As you used me like a pawn…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/10/2024

Never Said Goodbyes

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What could you tell me 

That I don’t already know

What could you sell me 

That’d make my life grow.

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What else could you reveal 

That would set everything right

What could you gesture, a meal

To appease all my appetites

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What could you do to restore faith 

Then and only then your kindness starts

So, why so often are you a wraith

Cruelty not love, did you impart.

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What other games would you play

Toying with the purest heart

When your final hand is played 

Is when resentment starts.

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How far will your “sorries” go

To reassert my favor with you

Are you truly sorry, “no”

The main reason I left you.

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Marriages come then they go 

When someone leaves it’s earned

After years of the to and fro

The love, destroyed, it’s burned…

-AAA 11/09/2024

Wake-up And Write

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Just awake 

Crumbs in eyes 

Vision’s blur

Then blue skies.

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Nothing wrote 

After nine 

Get in gear 

I’ll be fine.

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Saturday 

Sleeping in

Much to write 

Sure I’ll win!

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Picking forms 

For today

This one now

Hard to say.

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Three count syls

Just a sneeze 

These quatrains

Are a breeze.

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Rhymes four 

After two 

Created

When I’m through. 

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Next stanza

Keep going 

Ideas 

Are flowing.

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Where they lead

I don’t know

As I write

Poem grows.

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Mind to phone

Then it’s blogged

Much work left

Brain not fogged.

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Nice going 

Nearly through 

Words escape

What I do.

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iPhone notes 

Quickly write

Finish line 

Is in sight.

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So read up 

Nearly done 

Wake poems

Are much fun…

-AAA 11/09/2024

Wake Up, Go To Bed, Repeat 

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Wake up now 

Day begin

Lots to do

Planners win.

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So get dressed

Put on clothes

Brush your hair

Blow your nose.

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Socks are on

Shoes as well

Grab your coat

Feeling swell.

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Grab your keys 

Lock the door

Off to work

Then the store.

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Office bound 

Traffic bad

Journey slow

Drives you mad.

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Music plays 

Happy songs

Always rights

Commute wrongs.

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Then arrive

Plenty work

Take my lunch

A nice perk.

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Finish work

Homeward bound

Once again 

Traffic found.

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Music plays

Once again

Much akin

An old friend.

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Later home

Dinner ate

Clean the pans

Wash the plates.

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Then relax

Read a book

Eyes heavy

Day’s toll took.

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Back to bed

No sorrow

All redone 

For tomorrow…

-AAA 11/08/2024

Warm Fall Day

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So breezy

Warm fall day 

Shining sun

Much to say.

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Breezes blow

Swaying trees

Dusty air

Thank you please.

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Parks are full

Playgrounds too

Screaming kids

Joyful view.

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Some will swim 

In warm pools

Soak up rays 

They’re no fools.

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People dance

Music plays 

Beat goes on 

Night and day.

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End this jaunt

Good times had

Warm fall days

Never bad…

-AAA 11/07/2024

A Poets Work is Never Done

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Consonants, syllables, words, and beat

These are the color pallets of a poet

There are no shortcuts or way to cheat

Ask any one of us, as we all know it

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Usually one line comes to mind

As we create something new

Each poem, one of a kind

As our processes are tried and true

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Counting syllables with one hand

Per the rules of a poetry type

Only a poet understands

The efforts involved as they write

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Often when the writing is done

One stanza must be erased

This is part of our editing fun

As our poems form, post haste

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Quatrains, haikus, raikus, and quadrilles

A myriad of forms for the poet to choose

Using our creativity to climb those hills

So that our readers will be amused

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Then at last we’re finally through

All the words are down and complete

There’s nothing really left to do

Except go to WordPress and publish the latest suite.

-aaa

Originally Published 05/08/2024

Consumed and Tossed Asunder

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You tear me apart with every word

You strip away my flesh and bone

This situation is quite absurd

You’re toxic treatment I can’t condone

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You manipulated me and told lies

Many false words led me astray

Relationships dwindle when the love dies

The best parts of me were ripped away

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I covered you in my blanket of love

You smothered me in your cruel hate

I brought you peace like a dove

And you left me to choke on my fate

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Through great effort I lost all that weight

And I gained a lot of muscle

You never noticed until it was too late

Rendering moot much my hustle

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A starving man, I was neglected

As your love was withheld from me

Instead of being protected

Your ugliness consumed me

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I wanted to be your lover

Though you never really did care

Instead I got screwed over

And you were my cross to bear

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So I had bid goodbye to you

Long before you left our sacral bed

Today I try to think the best of you

But worms of your memory burrow holes in my head… ~ ~ ~

-aaa

Originally Published 05/09/2024

I Will…

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I will walk 

I will run

Through the park

Toward the sun.

–

I will stand

I will sit 

Life is grand 

Cannot forget.

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I will think 

I will speak

Without a blink

Reach the peak.

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I will search

I will seek 

Not a lurch 

Or the meek.

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I will mend 

I am through 

Most poems end 

This one will too…

-AAA 1/05/2024

Separate Ways

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We had gone as far as we could.

Said all that we could say.

We can do no further good.

So neither of us want to stay.

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Our last words are being said.

Along with a deep firm hug.

For one last time I held her head.

Feeling my heart give that familiar tug.

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The times we had were very hard.

Many situations were each unfair.

Our story mapped on a crooked chart.

Painful times we both did share.

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As I hold her for the last time.

Fresh warm tears stain my face.

Break-ups are horrible like the scene of a crime.

Pain, ruin, and destruction all over the place.

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What was the final cause?

I’m not sure if we’ll ever know.

Many bad circumstances we tripped across.

Never finding any stability or flow.

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We share heartfelt goodbyes.

And many “I’m sorries” in our embrace.

We let go, I give kiss her forehead as she cries.

I softly wipe the tears streaking down her face.

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The life we shared now at an end.

And the memories of it today, are just a haze.

Once we were lovers, but now distant friends.

Parting, each we go our separate ways…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/06/2024

That Last Kiss 

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If I knew it would be the last time 

I would’ve kissed you a lot longer.

If I knew it would be goodbye 

I would’ve held you stronger.

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If knew there was another 

I would’ve tried  harder

It’s all or nothing in this life

I should’ve been smarter.

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I thought you believed in us 

I thought you were a fighter

I never should’ve let go 

I should’ve held you tighter.

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Now, I wish you well from far away

I hope he’s great to you

I wish you a lifetime of great things

And endless happiness too…

-AAA 10/31/2024

So Sleepy 

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Just about to go to bed

Eyes are heavy and I’m tired

Need to rest a weary head

Or tomorrow will be mired.

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Pillow is soft 

Comforter warm

Dreams aloft 

Gently snore.

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Sound asleep 

Getting rest 

Very deep 

Is the best.

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My alarm clock 

Sounding soon 

Still as a rock 

Like the man in the moon…

-AAA 10/31/2024

Halloween Delight 

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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

Knowledge Is A Double Edged Sword 

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Fervent winds blow 

stronger and higher

They ebb and flow 

Fanning the fire.

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The more we learn 

The less we’re tame

Many things burn 

As they are aflame.

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Can anything be done

It may be too late 

Less time is for fun

Reaping our fates.

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So much change 

Rampant confusion 

So very strange

Is it a delusion?

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Wake me up 

Because I care 

Before times up 

From this nightmare…

-AAA 10/19/2024

Pecos Bill and His Stagecoach Rocket

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Slue Foot Sue I’ll see you real soon 

We’re in a rocket and on our way

Your bustle bounce brought you to the moon

And we’ll be reunited in just over a day.

–

The countdown starts

The clock starts to run 

Our rocket departs

As the count reaches one.

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Shimmy and shake 

Like a busting bronco would

Such a commotion for your sake

I’d do it again if I could.

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We speed up faster 

Leaving the earth

Risk is our master 

No time for mirth.

–

All the coyotes howled

For one last time 

Our wedding was fouled

I’m undoing that crime.

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Patience my dear 

It’s been a long while

Your Pecos Bill is getting near 

Bring out your smile.

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The moon grows large

As we approach 

This NASA barge 

Is our stagecoach.

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It’s been many years 

It’s taken so long 

Frustration and tears 

Now turned into song.

–

I can see your pretty face

And ocean blue eyes 

It’s now just a race

Through star filled skies.

–

Traveling fast is such great fun

Pushing the rocket to the limit

Faster than a bullet from my gun 

A stagecoach rocket with your Bill in it.

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Hit the retros we’re slowing down

I hoot and holler as we get near 

I’ll soon be in your lunar town 

Hang on darlin I’m almost here…

-AAA 10/20/2024

Missy’s MAD Challenge # 011

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http://madmissywork.blog/2024/10/14/missys-mad-challenge-011/

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 never knew

She Never Knew 

She never knew I was this strong

She never knew.

She never knew I’d write my own song 

She never knew.

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She never knew I’d say goodbye

She never knew.

She never knew I’d get along fine

She never knew.

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She never knew I’d start a new life

She never knew.

She never knew how to be a wife

She never knew.

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She never knew I’d move away

She never knew.

She never knew I refuse to stay

She never knew.

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She never knew what hit her

She never knew.

She never knew I’d quit her

She never knew.

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She never knew that I knew she was untrue

She never knew.

She never knew I saw it all, brew 

She never knew…

-AAA 10/15/2024

Silent Contemplations 

Anthony2 Comments

What is forever?

I cannot say.

What is never?

Less by one day?

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How far away is far?

Time can only tell.

Can you get there by car, 

or taxi as well?

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How much is too much?

What would be the weight?

Is a lot a bunch?

Tell me don’t hesitate.

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Does love conquer all?

The great poets say so.

We all rise and fall.

As life takes its toll.

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When is enough enough?

Is it less than a lot?

I’m shooting here from the cuff.

Show me what you got. 

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How deep is space?

Astronomers don’t know

Does black matter displace?

Quantum theory think so.

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How difficult is hard?

Can I quantitate?

In this query’s regard,

I must hesitate. 

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When will this poem end?

I think it’ll end now

Thank you for reading my friend

Now go in peace, and how…

-AAA 10/13/2024

Where Did We Go Wrong? Everywhere…

Anthony3 Comments

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

Kitten Smitten

Anthony2 Comments

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

I Was Disgustingly Yours

Anthony6 Comments

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 

Anthony7 Comments

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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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

Women Are Superior

Anthony24 Comments

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

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

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

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