TRUTH Vigilante: Ew, Icky. How Gross?

Expressive (May)

Poems, 40 words or less for:

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21/30 prompts ▼

05/01/2023-"Any"
05 02/023-"Any"
05/03/023-"Any"
05/04/023-"Cry"
05/05/2023-"True"
05/06/2023-"false"
05/07/2023-"Accept"
05/08/2023-"strong"
05/09/2023-"Deep"
05/10/2023-"embraced"
05/11/2023-"The Night"
05/12/2023- 'afresh'
05/13/2023-'lovely'
05/14/2023-'mighty'
05/15/2023-'beautiful'
05/16/2023-'grateful'
05/17/2023-'Mother'
05/18/2023-'Father'
05/19/2023-'twin'
05/20/2023-'brave'
05/21/2023-'good'
05/22/2023-'always'
05/23/2023-'Lord'
05/24/2023-'Golden'
05/25/2023-" The Best"
05/26/2023-'depth'
05/27/2023-'run'
05/28/2023-'wish'
05/29/2023-'will'
05/30/2023-'next'
05/31/2023-'prime'

Don't Choke (any) 5.1.23 ▼

Once bitten,
thirty-two times chewed.

Easily digestible.

No time.
I’ll drink my lunch.

Now I’m not shy,
but bit.

I can easily quit,

view their spectacle
at the trough.

5.9.23/5.11.23
30 words, free verse

Slurpers Buffet (any) 5.2.23 ▼

Fear boars with muddy faces,
when they eye you.

Slurpers sidle up.
Trust? in my emotional decay?

No farmer, what's prey to do?
Not going up a food chain.

Squeal and run.
Sky's falling! made up
to hide in a shithouse.

5.2.23/5.11.23
40 words, free verse

Compromised (any) 5.3.23 ▼

Not so different,
you and I...

...something I never
get the nerve to say.

Now that I confide:
feel more alone in silence.

Stave this moment.
We’ll be fine.

5.5.23/5.11.23
29 words, free verse

words and bones (cry) 5.4.23 ▼

as a child
words would try
words made me cry

a small body
learned their pain
often would strain

to love again
with pain inside
taught to hide

and-still-healing

5.11.23
29 words, free verse

truth cannot equate to beauty (true} 5.5.23 ▼

out a window, blue...
never such beauty.
is it true?

our faithful eyes
tell no lies?

the wonder of you...
unsolvable?

across the lawn, dew.
sun-glint green true,
begs ten toes.

why don't I run
into your arms?
when it's thirty-two??

5.11.23
40 words, free verse

We Are False (false) 5.6.23 ▼

I am false

I like to say we
so I don’t feel alone

but I
am alone

We are false

you just don't know it yet
or acknowledge.

5.11.23 edited
29 words, free verse

After The Illumination (accept) 5.7.23 ▼

I should face the mirror, accept
the wasted. passion produces feelings
(desire, young love)
revealed, hidden
in failing structure.

words flow from bloody tongue.
indelible words scribed (once glowing),
pixeled hostages illume ignorance.
an inky river runs dry.

5.11.23 edited
40 words, free verse

Copper Strong (strong) 5.8.23 ▼

Switch faulty, wiring exposed,
laminate peeling, but copper-strong.
Ready to ignite a feeling
if you flip. If you flip,
I’ll light all you dream,
everything we could dream.
Hall is dark, where we sway.
My song, copper-strong.

5.16.23
37 lines, free verse

The Melting Bird (deep) 5.9.23 ▼

in deep shade, crab blossoms
cannot hide a winter coat
melting off. feathers baffle breezes.
throat-warbled song rings in our dawn.

on jutted branch you hop, direct
spy me with one eye. worth slips
from my heart through that clear pane.

5.16.23
39 words, free verse

Embraced (embraced) 5.10.23 ▼

ashes heap gray
crackle cool
beneath deep blue love

fleeting sparks
singe, simper
sink in dry decay

embraced by rain
a morning mud

5.18.23
23 words, free verse

Harvested (The Night) 5.11.23 ▼

in the night
pieces of me taken,
my plight
as harvested soul

sorry i don't give more?

clear blues pry
cavern of hollow souls,
lose the trail home

everything a psyche owns
bled dry,
a game for them

5.20.23
38 words, free verse

black breath (afresh) 5.12.23 ▼

edge of another cliff:
deep down, dried up hell.

horizon fading; can't hide:
wasted so much time.

clouds curl, beckon
an old boy, afraid

to live afresh, yet,
shakes a sharp fist.

the last ray of sun
inhales black breath.

5.20.23
40 words, free verse

the awkward aim (lovely) 5.13.23 ▼

try to avoid the flowers
popping up
mid-sentence
yearning
to compare to you?

ramblings stumble
want to look lovely
for prying eyes

fall without grace,
bleed, but
no one here

race to your heart
less clear

aim again?

5.20.23
38 words, free verse

wormhole this (mighty) 5.14.23 ▼

cram a mighty world
into one rambling ode?

pinhole a box for breath?

stubbornly let you in
to see truth, wormholes

through dimensions, prove
we exist by my math,

mystical map, bread crumb
trail, that does not know

where to start?

5.20.23
39 words, free verse

beautiful boomerang (beautiful) 5.15.23 ▼

branch perched
eyes borrow vision
of a spring-sprung warbler
so beautiful

near feeder
dare not flinch
as you eye and eye
side to side

wings low float
as the mechanical groan
wheels by, when you
boomerang back to sky.

5.23.23
39 words, free verse

yo-yo for love (grateful) 5.16.23 ▼

on a string
your yo-yo
grateful and bound

in hock, obligated
to repay, as debt --
need to be longed by you

owing my heart
soul mortgaged
ignorant of worth

grateful to be
foolish in love.

5.23.23
35 words, free verse
"forever patriot"  ignorant boy

lazy head (Mother) 5.17.23 ▼

swollen summer heat
stick-sealed,
paint on his puttied,
wood frame, soft
she pried, slid open.

scheming
pollen paratroopers
screen-pressed, silent screams,
wake up boy!
school's out, but chores
don't do themselves.

miss Mother's reminders
for her lazy head.

5.29.23
39 words, free verse

daisy heads (Father) 5.18.23 ▼

White petal monsters
with cyclops-yellow eyes
loitered in her bed.

Father shadowed them,
metal spade clutched,
tickled their toes dug.

Soiled entrails dangled
from vibrant stalks,
buried in funeral

by our shed
in weed season,
marking our last lost pet.

5.29.23
40 words, free verse

xeroxed image of me (twin) 5.19.23 ▼

my clone --
facsimile reproduced --
just imitation

my copy --
twinsome duplication --
just replicant image

my double,
dead ringer, doppelganger --
we're not interchangeable

my spitting image --
two peas, two of a kind --
mirror equivalent

I leave reflection --
you vanish --
a hollow vapor.

5.30.23
40 words, free verse

brave buds (brave) 5.20.23 ▼

penetrating late frost
in early morn's shadows,
they’ll not die easy.

brave buds of chrysanthemum --
bright, beautiful, bold --
hold crisp as winter snow,

greet me alone
in plucky persistence,
defiant of death.

5.30.23
32 words, free verse

What Worth? (good) 5.21.23 ▼

Does something of worth
know it is good
without validation?

Desirable, this good,
tied to dignity?
Meaning what, to whom?

Virtue is good?
Inside you?
The benefit, cost?

Take a pill;
go to bed.
It creeps beside you.
Good.
Good?

5.30.23
40 words, free verse