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Rules of Engagement

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Rules of Engagement

Darkness lives in corners
where spiders hide undisturbed
and dust gathers secrets
protected by blankets of mystery
I stumble in confusion
Why did I not know sooner?

Climbing over discarded baggage
scattered without thought
and blocking advancement
Wishing to tear down
the emotional scaffolding
holding up your life

Unable to comprehend the
rules of engagement
I become weary from trying
and fall on my own sword
A breath, then another, realizing
I have become an impediment


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Sanaa is hosting the bar at D’Verse tonight and she has prompted us with
Line Messaging Poetry.  In her words:
“For today’s MTB challenge, I invite you all to try out this new poetic form. Be philosophical, somber or serious, show us your playful side or even better, be romantic! The choice is yours”
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Restless

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Restless

A gentle touch
Foot prints stolen
Bare trees of March stand spindly
This field of dreams lies barren
Broken like the wing

With nothing but my own thoughts
Wrap me gently in your arms
I stare at the paper

I walked that I might breathe
Living in my dreams
No road is straight and no hill is too steep
In the lonely hours


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Laura Bloomsbury is hosting D’Verse Poets tonight and has promoted us with ‘Found’ poetry.  We are to take the first lines of twelve poems we wrote in 2022. One from each month of the year.  I chose mine in order so the first line is from a January poem and the last is December.  I think it came out all right (!)

Here are links to the poems:

Mating Dance
Without A Trace
Winter's End
Field of Dreams
Broken
At Peace
Wrap Me In Love
D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
Walk in the Park
Daily Haiku - Mon. October 10, 2022
Silver Threads
In The Lonely Hours
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Solitary Journey

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Solitary Journey

Her dress, crimson, like the dying sun
sinking into the ocean
She clutches the rabbit statue
swiped from the credenza
as she wanders
up and down the hallway
It resonates with her
in a way only she knows how
A deep-rooted memory stirred
in an otherwise confused mind
Child-like in a woman’s body 
She smiles as she looks at it
from eyes otherwise vacant 
A simple, comical sight reminding
the onlooker of a fate that touches many
The tree of life slowly letting go
of its limbs and strength
The confused mind short-circuited
Leaving a jumble of mixed memories
sorted out of order


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Word Prompts

Crimson - RDP
Tree - Stream of Consciousness
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Stress

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Stress

Shell-shocked by recent events
another deep sigh leaves my body
relieving me of the heaviness carried
Sitting in luxurious silence
An unfamiliar but welcome stillness 
A freeing, stress-healing peace
If only for a short time

Frantic, heavily charged moments
unite us in anything but a good way
Fear and pain divides 
Anger replaces calm
Fingers point in wrong directions
Love, uplifting, symbolic
Squashed and choked to death



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Word Prompts

Stream of Consciousness- “igh” (sigh)
Word of the Day - Frantic
FOWC - Symbolic
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Hopes and Fears

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blurred sea waves in rush
Photo by Damir Mijailovic on Pexels.com

Hopes and Fears

Lost in the current
of my dreams
floating in between
hopes and fears
Drifting towards that haven
between anxiety and peace
Hoping to decipher
confusing messages
laid before me
Who waves the prickly pear
in my face?
A punishment for a  wrong
I unknowingly committed?
Who are these adversaries
in my sleep?
What have I done?
Wishing to shake off the
hands that claw at me
I struggle to wake


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Lillian is hosting Open Link Night at D'Verse Poets tonight
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Where Do We Go From Here?

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Now the love has gone 
and open wounds will not heal
Wanting to move on
but paralyzed limbs
are planted in stone
 
Neither wanting to make a decision
Who will go first
to choose freedom?
Is that what it will be? Free from each other?
Did we try hard enough, if at all?
 
Too in love to let it go
and break the tie that binds
Who is fooling who?
The love is missing
What magnetic force is in play?
 
Is it time to rip off the Band Aid
we plastered on the cuts and bruises
from angry words weaponized?
Time to stop kissing better
those things that won’t ever?
 
I will mourn each day
Because he is gone
You are now living in his body
But you are not him
You are a shadow of who he once was
 
You look like him
But you are someone else
A person I don’t know
A stranger in my midst
who sees someone else
when he looks at me
 
Where do we go from here?

 
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Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting Open Link Night at D'Verse Poets

Image by prettysleepy1 from Pixabay
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Seeds of Doubt – A Quadrille

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Seeds of Doubt

When did he stop listening
she wondered
Once, everyone forgets
Twice, he’s losing it!
Daily, so it seems
He’s not listening at all
 
The sudden realization
something is wrong
Seeds of doubt germinate 
Taking root, spreading
Faster than ink drying 
on a divorce decree
 
 
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Merril is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets tonight.
She has prompted us with "Seed"

A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title

Image by Brigitte makes custom works from your photos, thanks a lot from Pixabay

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Without Power

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Without Power

Stars of night sky
casting light 
on my darkness
Rogue thoughts 
rush through
Unclear
Disorienting 
No longer adept 
in finding clarity
my mind encircled
by rings of luminescence
Trapped
in a vice-like squeeze
Where words
lose their form
and sound
falls into the
chasm of dissension



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Ring - Stream of Consciousness 
Rogue - Word of the Day
Luminescence - RDP
Adept - FOWC
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