The Great State

The following poem inspired by the article linked below, which is also the source of this image

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/16/how-trumpcare-will-crush-millennials-and-their-boomer-parents.html?via=desktop&source=facebook

On a splendid day

In the nation that was great again

The homeless and jobless milled about hopelessly

As the sun shone sickly through the pollution

The ill and infirm 

Curled up in a cozy alley to die

While skinny stray dogs and cats

Chewed on the remains

Of those whose struggling families

Could not afford to bury them

~Cie~

De Agony of De Feet

The work I do isn't in vain

But I still need to complain

My feet are always in pain

The constant aching is really a drain

On body and sole and brain

~Cie~

(Suffering from plantar fascitis)

Prompt Used:

https://patriciasplace.me/2017/02/12/hard-work/

Rotten To the Core

Your Big Secret: No Heart

Copyright Lori Nelson

His look was sleek, his presentation suave

His soul contaminated by crudelis

Each time she gave her heart he would slam it down

But one day she was nowhere to be found

He missed her fawning and came crawling

"You don't know what I look like when I'm not in love with you," she said. "Well, take a good look now."

~Cie~

Prompts Used:

http://dailytextprompt.tumblr.com/post/156515931746/29117

http://hourlywritingprompts.tumblr.com/post/156521897094/writing-prompt

http://mysexysaturday.blogspot.com/2017/01/sexy-about-town-mysexysaturday.html

http://victoriousvocabulary.tumblr.com/post/156522114391/crudelis-adjective-1-unfeeling-rude-2

http://wnq-writers.com/post/156519190085/you-dont-know-what-i-look-like-when-im-not-in

http://writeodome.tumblr.com/post/156517918414/prompt-12717

How to say "writher"! (High Quality Voices)

Three Leaved: A Cautionary Tale

While hiking in the woods that fateful eve

Our heroine needed to be relieved

Behind a tree her goal was achieved

To be followed by misery she'd not have believed

Thanks to the devil three-leaved

~Cie~

True story, Folks.

Prompt used:

Five Lines or Less

https://patriciasplace.me/2017/01/16/oh-so-relieved/

64

Young face

Old soul

Sad eyes even when smiling

Sometimes it seems as if you knew

You would never really grow old

Sometimes you hid your broken heart

Behind a mask of silliness

You really never let anyone in

You were a gift to this world

We didn't deserve you

I'm sorry for what has happened 

I wish I could right what went wrong

You deserve better

Love,

Cie

Dementia destroys beautiful minds

For Malcolm Young

born 6 January 1953

F.E.A.R.

I’m tired of adulting, it’s not working out for me

I hate this ugly alt-right, Brexiteer reality

I’ve developed coulrophobia with all the clowns around

Everyone’s a chatbot since the humans all left town

I’ll never climb a glass cliff, and I’ll never know how hygge feels

In a post-truth, reactionary world, only hate is real

They hate the Latinx, Middle Easterners, Asians and Blacks

Once you’re woke to the truth, you can never look back

I’ve never found hope to be in great supply

But these days it takes all I have to stop myself

From giving in to my urge to abide
By the old acronym

Fuck

Everything

And

Run

Cie

Far from hopeful for the future

There are more than 70 words in my poem

Kill the link if it, or the swearing, is a problem

Adulting - The practice of behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment of mundane but necessary tasks
Alt-right - An ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative or reactionary viewpoints, characterized by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate deliberately controversial content
Brexiteer - A person who is in favour of the UK withdrawing from the European Union
Chatbot - A computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users, especially over the internet
Coulrophobia - Extreme or irrational fear of clowns
Glass cliff - Used with reference to a situation in which a woman or member of a minority group ascends to a leadership position in challenging circumstances where the risk of failure is high
Hygge - A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being, regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture
Latinx - A person of Latin American origin or descent, used as a gender-neutral or non-binary alternative to Latino or Latina
Post-truth: an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals.
Woke - Originally in African-American usage meaning alert to injustice in society, especially racism