Photo: Jorge Lopez on Unsplash
“I am not,” she insisted,
“Obsolete.
Or not yet.
Not as long as I can
Vote,
And thus
Use my
Voice,
To oust threat.”
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Challenge: Obsolete in 24 words
Not Obsolete
Resist
The Blues
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Stand up
To the dimming of
The light
By cruel
Injustice.
Be the lone voice
If you
Must.
Hold tall
Against the winds
That wish to
Break right
Into wrong
And form
Wrong
Into common practice.
Behold the skies
In blues
And clouded
Sorrow,
Even as you keep
Fighting for
Better today
And a just
Tomorrow.
For July Blues
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Let The Silence
Photo by Pixabay
Let the silence
Become
The song.
Let the stillness
Move
The throng.
Let the quiet
Speak
For wrong.
Let the tacit
Hold
Its own.
Let the silence
Become
The song.
For Linda G Hill’s SoCS prompt
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Pink Strong
Photo: Atara Katz
Underneath the soft plumage
And pretty colors
Afield,
Resides a strength to protect
From those who violence
Wield.
Underneath the pink top
The hat of power
Revealed,
Live truths of how both
Softness and thorns
Are required
To be healed.
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Make mine pink
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Bereft Of Hope
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If you feel bereft of hope
In view of those who lead
Not by honor
But deceit;
Hold on to the voice of people
Rising
To relieve
Those who cherish false and greed
From the path of harm
They have conceived.
Be strong
Even as you are now
Understandably
Bereaved.
For there will be better days
Ahead
Where heart
Over current swamp,
Succeeds.
Merriam-Webster’s word for August 5, 2018:
Bereft
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Inchmeal by Inchmeal
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Inchmeal by inchmeal
We can reclaim
Lost sanity.
Small step by small step
We can restore
What this recent time had
Hammered in brutality.
The foundations are still there
Trusting rescue
Shaken but resistant.
Inchmeal by inchmeal
We can bring back home
Revive
Transform
The currently abandoned
Humanity.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 26, 2018:
Inchmeal
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Behemoth
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
The sheer size of injustice
May derail many a
Courage,
But the sure footed will know
There’s much room to
Encourage,
For heft can usurp power
But does not need mean
Might,
When the small but the many
Can prove stronger in a
Fight.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 25, 2018:
Behemoth
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Festinate Hope
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May justice make haste
To reclaim what once graced
But has since been debased
By a swamp that laid waste
And all ethics replaced.
May the truth festinate
Removal of greed and hate
To restore facts misplaced
By those who greatness erased.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 22, 2018:
Festinate
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Timely Sign
It is a sign of the times
It is a heartache due noting
And why all must not minimize
The essential role of fair voting.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
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Lambaste Injustice
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda; NYC
There are times when to pummel
A wrongness with words
Is a must.
If another is silenced
And their voice thrown
To dust,
Then lambasting the cruelty
Is the way to be
Just.
(Note: Photo taken today at the Families Belong Together March in NYC)
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 30, 2018:
Lambaste
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