Tag: #apoemaday
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Strike
Lightning Strike It speaks.A voicein the near distance. A sudden visitation oflightning thatvanishes. A flashlike a wanderingthought. It breaks the air. Such are itslibertine ways. And it roars like a lion,then a heartbeat, low and warm. Image is from Unsplash (via their iPhone app). Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky…
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An Unfinished Symphony Sort-of-Poem
An Unfinished Symphony Sort-of-Poem one pigeon in the kitchen,two magpies on the roof three mudhens and a wren plusfour dogs are barking WOOF,five crows with shiny trinkets,six boys making too much noise,seven girls in pearls and curls dancing to a dog and…
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for Miz Quickly’s The Forgottens
Just Hello When I was a kid, our telephonewas in the coat closet. Shiny asnight was black. Rotary dial. Very Humphrey Bogart. Even with the closet door closed,you could hear its urgency. Thatshrill ring. Didn’t sound like birdschirping or a motorcycle engine. And no one ever rang to just say,Hello.Hey. How’s it going, babe.What about…
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4 January 2021: Somewhere In the Past
Somewhere In The Past We were into masks that year.We were all eyes. waiting tomix with the sky, and outside, every day, church bells rang.It was cold though it might’ve been green, too.Hedgerows grew. Daffodils swayed,tall as a congregation of choristers.We stayed close to home, and we walked alone in open spaces.Called it safety. Safe…
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3 January 2021: Confidential Trees
Confidential Trees Gentle his heart.He walked the foreston the flat end of sorrow,and trusted the treesto keep the ache buried. written for @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter © Misky 2020 Image from Unsplash public domain cc:00
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1 January 2021: For Wont of Company
For Wont of Company You’ll understand one day, whenyou love someone like I’ve done,you’ll want to pot up that feeling,you’ll want it to bloom on forever like my begonias. But I just stood there, staring at the urnbehind your sofa with Dad’s ashes…
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