Life Sequences
Finding The Numbing Peace
My humble entry into yet another great Poppy challenge. Looking forward to seeing what everyone else creates!
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Accusations as big as bullet holes
Flashing lights at 2 a.m.
Saving pennies and tattered souls
Cursing love and other scams
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Wounds fester underneath the skin
Busted wallets and give a damns
Hung-up where the real begins
Loving hard, out on the lamb
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Embracing lessons from the scar
The scab is wearing thin
Content to pick and tear apart
Time and time again
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Modern, makeshift therapy
Patchwork blistered on my heart
An array of gallimaufry
collaborating the spare-parts
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I dream of shades of green
Adorned with fields of dandelions
Escaping the same old scene
Shielding echos of screaming sirens
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I straddle above impact
Waiting for the other shoe to fall
Finding where the calm is stacked
Crafted like babushka dolls
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A calm peaceful surrender
A compromise of amicable copy
To complete with such sweet splendor
A poem inspired by Poppy
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Kelli Sheckler-Amsden
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So, I had an idea. I was wondering if Pennywise the dancing clown went vegan because he wanted to befriend humanity, what would he eat? Would there be food options for him, or would he have to starve just to be put in a better light with us humans. So I’ve created a special restaurant and menu just for him. This way, if Pennywise were to become vegan, he wouldn’t have to get creative with his dietary choices, I’ve done it for him. I’ve taken the work out of going vegan on his behalf! Here is a special restaurant and menu I made just for our friend, Pennywise!
By Alex H Mittelman 5 days ago in Fiction
Comments (8)
So lovely in an abstract kind of way. Babushkas are everywhere.
Omg I adore this!! “Accusations as big as bullet holes” has me so hooked and in awe straight away and the other lines of that stanza went with it so perfectly. “Busted wallets and give a damns” I absolutely love that. “The scab is wearing thin Content to pick and tear apart Time and time again” That’s so powerful and well written!! This whole poem is incredible!! Thanks for taking part💙
Oh I absolutely loved your take on this prompt! I also learned a new word, gallimaufry!
"Busted wallets and give a damns" - I agree with Xine - such a wonderful line!
Challenge well met, Kelli. "Gallimaufry"? Never even heard the word before. When I looked it up I was pleased to note that I was pronouncing it correctly, lol. I guess it was destined to be. Today the New York Times used my starting word for Wordle, so now I actually have a single score in that first guess column!
I LOVE learning new words - gallimaufry- fantastic and it's a word you could use often. My desk is a gallimaufry of papers, books and odds and ends! "Busted wallets and give a damns" - I love this line. Nice job.
I learned a new word!!! gallimaufry...(jumble or medley of things) Awesome And this poem made me FEEL. "Cursing love and other scams" "Embracing lessons from the scar" "Patchwork blistered on my heart" genius...all
This is great. I had to Google gallimaufry. What a cool word.