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Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 104, Happy October – “Poets Choice of Words”

02 Tuesday Oct 2018

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Colleen has given us free reign over our choice of words.  I chose Spector and Possess as mine and only used synonyms to write my Tanka!  🙂

Frightful October

Goblins and ghouls awaken

Bones rattle and shake

Spirits take flight on this night

And I covet the darkness

 

Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge

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The House On Grayson Place (The Disappearance)

18 Thursday Jan 2018

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Remember the house on Grayson Place

Not quite sure just where it’s gone

It appears, now, to be an empty space

Perhaps it was never there, all along

A pile of grassy dirt lays claim

To the lot, where it once stood

The neighborhood’s never been the same

Not quite sure it really should

Remind us, of the woman, who

We could hear, from dawn til dusk

Her howling shrill, would pierce right though

Ever long, and rather brusque

We knew better than to get too near

Strange things happened much too fast

How she filled us with this dreadful fear

A woman, who was marked, an outcast

 

Part One can be found here

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50 Word Story ~ Autumn left me – #writing

04 Monday Dec 2017

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The weather was turning. I could feel the winter wind strike a glancing blow across my face. Teary eyed, I watched, accepting the fact autumn would be leaving me. Icier days grew closer, and I drew deeper into myself. I couldn’t bear watching, for fear I’d never see her again.

 

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Sitting on the Sidewalk ~ #poetry of the #homeless

01 Friday Dec 2017

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The rustle of dried up leaves
No welcome sound to ancient ears
Another season comes to an end
Autumn’s gone, as winter nears

How he hates the cold, dark days
When the wind whips through his bones
How he longs for summertime
When warmth is offered, as his home

Cardboard walls, no privacy
Kicked about by strangers feet
Unaware, that he lives there
To them it’s just another street

On days where he can stand the cold
He sits, bundled in a threadbare coat
Hoping they’ll notice how hungry he is
Carefully reading his scribbled note

Most will only smile, in dismay
Not really knowing what they fear
And he sits on the sidewalk, outside his box
As his darkness draws another tear

 

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Looming Chaos ~ #poetry of a #hurricane #Irma #SeptemberWriting

08 Friday Sep 2017

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She struck with a fervor, like a derailed train

Took with her, everything, all she could claim

Lashed out at those, for staying behind

Wondering if they had all lost their mind

Warnings aplenty, where this girl would land

Seems she had it quite carefully planned

Landfall would only cause her to stall

So she stayed upon water, embracing the wall

Of funnel spouts spewing, and wind shears galore

Something so ominous, what was in store?!

Slowly she churned, growing closer and then

Slamming into the mainland, again and again

Unleashing her peril, with all of her might

Keeping everyone fearful, throughout most the night

Until all was calm, not a sound could be heard

Caught in the eye of the storm, where chaos is stirred

 

Writing Prompt: Looming Chaos – Day 8/30

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