Fingers Crossed

 

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I will be extremely thankful

if we the people can fulfill

removing from Capitol Hill

the Beast who causes such rankle

my only hope for Thanksgiving this year

of which I dream in anticipation

is to be able to raise my glass in a toast

and say I am thankful to the Powers that May Be

that the Beast has been ousted

and perhaps the nation can heal

the Beast's presence caused hearts to chill

running on less than a tankful

as he brags about his bank-full

the poor swallow a bitter pill

I am done with the Beast, to say the least

I hope the majority agrees with me

It is time for Nero to stop fiddling

with our minds while the country burns literally

take the lying liar

out to a pasture filled with tumbleweeds

dejar que el mentiroso mentiroso estofado en sus propios jugos 

mientras que la gente trabaja para reconstruir

~cie~

The last stanza means "let the lying liar stew in his own juices while the people try to rebuild."

Poetry style:

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/lalibertas.html

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2020/10/octpowrimo-day-23.html

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The Colors of a Life (Choka)

 

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the leaves are changing

as they do every autumn

to eternity

find inspiration

in the place where I now live

not intuitive

I find surprises

things and events undesired

disappointment comes

people say it's smart

forever follow your gut

I reach for candy

colors of the day

weave into the knot of tears

wrap around my heart

~cie~

prompts

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/heeding-haiku-with-chevrefeuille-october-21st-2020-colors/

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/sunday-writing-prompt-11th-october-a-change-of-season/

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2020/10/octpowrimo-day-22.html

The title and last stanza of the poem are a nod to the song "Colors of the Day" by Judy Collins.

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Bitter Desire

 

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what is at first delectable and tantalizing

so often turns out to be a bitter lie

wrapped in a creamy complexion

the desire that you feel when you look into eyes 

explosive with all the colors of the universe

turns sour like a stale cup of bad coffee

when you realize that what he feels is not poetic desire

but merely common lust

and you could be anyone or anything

so long as he can grab hold of something

and stick himself in

better to stay home and clean house

clean out your cupboards

your contacts

your mind

of all traces of him

soon enough you'll find

that he was only a cutout prince

waxing poetic about a paper moon

you'd get nauseated sailing his cardboard sea anyway

~cie~

prompt this

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/photo-challenge-337/

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2020/10/octpowrimo-day-21.html

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/wednesday-poetry-prompts-545

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Tattooed on my Heart

 

This is the tattoo on my left shoulder

The picture was taken by my son

You're welcome to use it if you do so in a respectful manner

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you can't bring yourself to be respectful, you can fuck off. 

my plush, furry friend

how you made this hard heart soft

life coarse and cruel

losing you made me grow cold

although my dead heart still beats

~cie~

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2020/10/octpowrimo-day-20.html

You Need the Notes

I really can't abide the kind of person whose first comment upon seeing a picture of someone's tattoo is "ew, I don't like tattoos." I'm quite sure they didn't get the tattoo with you in mind, Sunshine.

I got my first tattoo at 49 years old. It is on my right deltoid. 

To me, it's fairly obvious that a tattoo like this is done to honor someone, which, in fact, it was. But some sanctimonious sort had to point out their dislike of tattoos to show how saintly they are because they don't have any tattoos.

I've known heavily tattooed people who embody what I think are the characteristics a saint should have, such as empathy and tolerance, and people with no tattoos who are caustic and judgmental. I know whose company I'd rather keep. 

When I was living in downtown Denver at nineteen, it wasn't the punks who made me feel so uncomfortable that I spent most of the summer hiding in my apartment. It was the clean-cut guys who thought it was fun to follow me, whistling at me like they were calling to a dog. 

I judge people based on their behavior, not their physical appearance.

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Internalized

 

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roar of the judgmental voices

putrid and stale as rotting corpse

dark mind

derision dripping rancid hate

couched in sweet social prescriptions

dogma

rough edges made smooth by the tears

falling from my pariah's eyes

guilty

~cie~

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2020/10/octpowrimo-day-19.html

Poetry Form:

Synchronicity, briefly.

This poetry type is supposed to have eight stanzas with an 8/8/2 syllable pattern, but I was done saying what I needed to say in three stanzas.

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Scar Tissue

 

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You're welcome to use it, I guess, but I don't know why you'd want to

Please credit me if you do

breathe

I guess

more or less

that's the first step

that I should take to start

the process of rebooting me

use meditation to rejuvenate

attempting to reboot the process of healing

healing the scar tissue deep within me

heal what has started to decay

you can't heal what's rotting

scars never fade

remaining

behind

veils

~cie~

The Nauseating Notes

It was supposed to be a diatelle, but I saw too late that those have a rhyme scheme, so it's just another stupid Diamante. Yes, I suck.

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2020/10/octpowrimo-day-18.html

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Big Fat Obsession

 

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I don't give a fuck

 my blood reveals the faults in my stars

or at least in my DNA

my bones are strong, what can I say

my breath often spews forth in the ragged hacking

of an asthmatic cough

my heart, broken many times

beats strong and regular beneath my sagging breasts

in fact, medical people have commented favorably

on my hardy heart

but in the end, nobody sees a goddamn thing about me

except for my belly

which they've deemed too full of jelly

and my ample ass

so every day when I wake up

the first thing I have to do after taking a piss

is tell myself that I deserve to live

and that I don't deserve to be treated like shit

just because I'm fat

and if your thought starts with "well, if you'd just lose weight"

then you can fuck right off

along with everyone else who ever pounded this hate into my head

because I just did that a lot of times

until my body decided

I couldn't do that anymore

diets don't work

and you shouldn't treat people like trash

even if you don't think they're pretty

~cie~

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2020/10/octpowrimo-day-17.html

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