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Tag Archives: darkness
#3 Darkness
She can only hopethat she brings certain light intosurrounding darkness. Elizabeth L. Crawford 11/1/21
Back to Curiosity, Again
Always remember that the quest forever begins with curiosity. It is that lightning strike that bringsits flash of sight, right there within the darkness. Curiosity has an appetite. One that is never quitequenched or completely satisfied. And is the baitthat … Continue reading
Brief Life Span
For Poets United: Mid-Week Motif – Flower http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Brief Life Span Stood by watching you bloom delicate petals slowly unfolding from tightly curled bud of your fragile in-most being. Sunlight loved blue of your eyes when laughter fell like soft … Continue reading
Posted in Brief Life Span
Tagged darkness, embrace, life span, Mid-Week Motif, Poets United, standing by, watch
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Carpetbaggers
For Poets United Midweek Motif: Change http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Carpetbaggers Change is upon us. We knew it was coming, yet are not prepared. Couldn’t have dreamed of these possibilities, so scream at nightmares unleashed. Waste energy girding belts already tightened, watching enlightenment … Continue reading
Posted in Carpetbaggers
Tagged Carpetbaggers, change, darkness, hope, Light, Midweek Motif, nightmare, Poets United, possibilities
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Take Back
For Creativity Challenge Day 7: Opposition http://1sojournal.wordpress.com For Poets United: Poetry Pantry #330 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Take Back I am an old woman living alone, remembering. That night, so long ago, when the women on campus participated in a ‘walk about’ to … Continue reading
Posted in Take Back
Tagged candle, creativity challenge, darkness, fear, opposition, Poetry Pantry, poetry prompts, Poets United, Predator, Take Back, together
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We Dare Not Acquiesce
For Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #86 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ voice, sing, trills, banal, primal, dumb, without, means, noise, plaintive, joyful, words For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #275 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com feed, work, easy, flat, pattern, lies, drop, keys, righteous, ends, call, hold For Poets United: … Continue reading
Posted in We Dare Not Acquiesce
Tagged acquiesce, darkness, ignorance, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, Sundays Whirligig, The Sunday Whirl, violence, voices, wordles, work
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Indivisible
Poets United: Midweek Motif, invisibility http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Indivisible The words that for so long have been the fence posts of my journey have disappeared. Somehow become invisible. Slipping away on streams of feelings which no longer have names, let alone meaning. … Continue reading
Posted in Indivisible
Tagged darkness, divisive rhetoric, ignorance, invisible, Mid-Week Motif, Poets United, words
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Classifications
The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #272 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ still, busy, curl, silvery, bowl, class, echoing, drop, jealous, velvet, oil, light Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #83 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ insectivores, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, lamb, feed, suck, chew, spring, anything, know, sometimes Poets United: Poetry Pantry #326 … Continue reading
Posted in Classifications
Tagged darkness, feeders, memory, movement, Poetry Pantry, promise, Sundays Whirligig, The Sunday Whirl, wordles
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Finding Home
For Poets United Poetry Pantry http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Finding Home Spent years, running around outside myself, hands outstretched like blind woman brailing outer walls of soul, seeking secret hole, some sort of entrance. Heard whimper of wounded child, followed that sound until … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Home
Tagged brailing soul, darkness, finders/keepers, journal, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, rewrite, snippets, wounded child
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