Photo: Jaime Michelle
Every year it shrinks back
Every year it grows less
Till too soon
It will be
But a memory
Unless.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Absent
Imminently Absent
History
Long Unseen
Photo: Atara Katz
As the stories unfold
Pried from time’s
Stranglehold
Bit by bit
You’ll behold
What the fingers
Of old
Would have seen
Could have told.
For the d’Verse Poets challenge: Unseen Things
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Rows of Woe
Photo: Ofir Asif
For we owe
Them to know
How rows of woe
Not long ago
Came to show
What can grow
If we do not forgo
Those who kowtow
To the lowest of low.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Row
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Tempestuous Times
Photo: cmurrey, Flickr
“These are tempestuous times,” she said
And her strong hands wrung the laundered sheets
To squeeze out suds
As she would want
To push out infiltrated evil.
“I’ve seen hardship before,” she stirred
The linens
In the boiling vat,
Simmering the despair
Till it foamed and evaporated
Into bleached hope.
“Wrong does not last,” she rinsed
And wrung
And shook
And hung
The wash
Till it fluttered
Free
To dry,
Only the barest of stains
Still visible
In the sun.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 30, 2018:
Tempestuous
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Path Advice
Photo: Ofir Asif
In the deserts of life
When it seems that oases you’ve taken for granted
Have forgotten
Marked paths,
Don’t ignore painted signs
Of the flags of times past.
The direction you take may determine
If your very next steps
Lead to hope
Or end up being
Your last.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge
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Regardless
Photo: Dvora Freedman
Despite it all, she knew
It was not meant to be this way,
Bereft of tether.
Despite it all, she understood
Wrong won’t hold sway
Forever.
So despite it all, she prayed
Easier breaths will soon be drawn
Together.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 3, 2018:
Regardless
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A Time’s Tome
There are tales in the making
Some so long, one might fear
Hope will drown in the swamps
Where the truth disappears.
But other tomes are unfolding
That the soul aches to hear:
Of corruption that ended
As justice grew near.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 29, 2018:
Tome
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Route To Kaput
Photo: Pinterest, Carrie Miles
Olden times come to rise
Where the heartless devise
Righteousness to brutalize
Those they dehumanize.
An unwise move, time shows
For a smart person knows
That even one group maligned
Cracks open fault lines
In a stroke that would put
A reign on path to kaput.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 26, 2018:
Kaput
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Amortize
Allow persons in power
To amortize the legitimacy of those
They term ‘others,’
And the weak will fall behind them,
Eager to believe themselves
More worthy
Than most.
They’d be wrong, of course, for
They are not.
Because none who are truly strong
And deserving of honor
Would ever devalue others
Nor would they sit back as
Inhumanity
Takes hold.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 25, 2018:
Amortize
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Effigial Critique
(Photo: Jodi Hill for Sports Illustrated)
If it’s fame that you seek
Know how history speaks
Of tyranny’s recognition
Turning infamy
And
Effigial critique.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 24, 2018:
Effigy
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