Poem Challenge: Pick a vowel and ensure that every word in a poem has this vowel

Picnic with Aliens

Ants carrying fragments:

— meat,

— — marmalade toast

— — — chocolate croissants

— — grapes

— smashed orange beverage

away towards an ant abode

Airplanes overhead, a clear gaze towards space

— aliens anxiously asking…

— — are all earthlings always relaxed and eating?

This piece was first published here.

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Other Being's Dreams

Every now, every then

Dreams enter their realm, their consciousness.

Are these beings essentially sentient?

Are we hopelessly misperceiving empathy, independent intelligence?

These dreams are where

we see the reality

we see where we relate

we see when we behaved the same —

eerily.

We see ourselves enter their role, forgetting reality.

This piece was first published here.

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Highlighting Injustices

This is ice,

This is pain,

This is loneliness.

This brain is filled with:

appalling experiences,

unfair actions,

jarring memories.

Memories highlighting differences,

highlighting racism

highlighting injustices.

This piece was first published here.

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Orange Oversized Overalls

Schoolgirl frolicking alone,

sporting orange oversized overalls,

doodling unorthodox portraits, cartoons, illustrations

across our playground, without worry or concern.

Observers opine, offering unsolicited words,

of communicated expectations,

of norms, of “how mademoiselles comme nous should conduct ourselves”

Opinions reconstructing self-concepts,

encouraging conformity

overshadowing otherwise outstanding outcomes.

This piece was first published here.

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Unrest

Up upon upraised immunity,

you urge us, “support surrender!”

underlining our unhappiness, frustration,

undermining our unity.

You dub us

unfitting under your utopia.

Our journey unravels your exclusion

undoing your jurisdiction

authorizing ridiculous stipulations —

uprooting supremacy.

This piece was first published here.

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Thank you to Matthew Rohrer from #PoetryInVoice for this prompt!

“The Vowel Poem”

What’s your favorite vowel? Mine’s E. Pick your favorite vowel, and write a ten line poem in which every word uses that vowel. It doesn’t have to begin with that vowel, or even use it prominently (i.e. get it’s main “sound” from the vowel). It just has to be in the word.

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