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Exposed ~ #Nonet #PoetryChallenge

08 Tuesday Jan 2019

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Colleen’s challenge for us this week are the words Begin and Fresh.  Remember, you can only use synonyms to write your poetry!

Written as a Reverse Nonet, my synonyms are Create and Anew.


With
My words
I create
Feelings anew
Parts of my own soul
Entirely exposed
To unknown human beings
Who somehow find my poetry
Mirrored images of their own lives

 

Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge

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Unexplained – #poetry – #JanuaryWriting

08 Tuesday Jan 2019

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I found myself, alone, floating across the sea

In a tiny boat, I wondered what happened to me

The water, crystal clear, sparkled, like sunlit glass

Fish swam below me, schools of them, en masse

I couldn’t see anything, no matter where I looked

Suddenly, the calm receded, then the water shook

Up, from out of the ocean, a distant island appeared

At least I think it was, my eyesight, not quite clear

Palm trees swayed, in the breeze, atop a sandy shore

I shaded sun from my eyes, why couldn’t I see more?

Alas, I realized, this place, was all that had remained

Of Earth, of me and my boat, the rest is unexplained

 

January Writing Prompt – A distant shore was all that remained – Day 8/31

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Snowball Fight ~ #poetry #WOTD #RDP

07 Monday Jan 2019

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Through high piles of snow, we lumber along

As drifts vie to stop us, our gathering throng

So, we become immature, trying to smother

Everyone, by throwing snowballs at each other

 

Word of the Day – Immature
Ragtag Daily Prompt – Lumber

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Turbulence ~ #poetry #Afterwards

07 Monday Jan 2019

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It swirled, like an eddy, from deep below

Took everything with it, in the undertow

Gulls hovered over, in awe of the sea

Tried hard, not to become, what would be

Such turbulence, they had never seen

Deep in the waters, this swirling green

Pristine white, its crests swayed, to and fro

How much it would engulf, was hard to know

We watched from above, afraid to go near

Lest the sea swallowed us, this we did fear

Mesmerized by its beauty, awed by its sight

It activated our senses, to flee out of fright

Still, there we waited, wondered, would it make good

Then we watched it take over, the place where we stood

 

Afterwards January Prompts – Turbulence

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Same Place Tomorrow – #poetry – #JanuaryWriting

07 Monday Jan 2019

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Every day she’d come, with a book, in her hand

Set a blanket down, on the soft, and warm sand

Open to yesterday’s page, aloud, she would read

Seems this was the only thing, she’d ever need

Softly at first, against the crashing of the waves

Then a little bit louder, her voice, she’d engrave

Into the rush of surf, as it teased, near her feet

The sound of the water, her words, so sweet

And continue, she did, until light became dark

Then flag the page, with his faded bookmark

Promising to return to him, the very next day

Same place in the sand, for he liked it that way

 

January Writing Prompt – She read aloud to the sound of crashing waves – Day 7/31

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