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red shadows on deserted snowfall

by alfred booth, wanbli ska

Rated: 18+ · Book · Emotional · #1926559

A new book to house this year's (and future years) NationalPoetryMonth's daily poems.

I'm writing once again this year. This book is my special event place for thirty special poems.

Here for National Poetry Month in 2018, I'm participating but life has not been kind in the last 15 months, so I'm not always in writing mode.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Rhyssa

May 1, 2018 at 2:14pm
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I love the way you riffed off the bard. And I've loved reading you this month. I wish it could have lingered longer, even though I feel as though I need to sleep about a month to recover and get ready for next year.

Joy

Apr 30, 2018 at 8:57pm
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Gorgeous, and Shakespearean all right. You have the voice perfectly. "keep my image sweet" Your image is sweet just like your words and how you blend them together.
This has been such a great April, and thank you for your words and lines that sweetened every prompt.

Rhyssa

Apr 29, 2018 at 9:12pm
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I could feel the frustration--and it feeds into mine. Thought provoking and emotion filled.

Scarlett

Apr 29, 2018 at 11:15am
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So clever and powerful to put across such effective words with perfect rhymes too. In awe yet again.

Katya the Poet

Apr 29, 2018 at 8:38am
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Sad and edgy. LOVE the sly couplets.

Joy

Apr 28, 2018 at 12:09pm
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Complaints wrapped in beauty. I love the last question the most.

Joy

Apr 27, 2018 at 5:45pm
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Love the images, "wind whisperers, embrace mountains, ornaments, lost, no longer pillars for life"
Such a sad situation that humans have become the varmints to nature here on earth.

Katya the Poet

Apr 27, 2018 at 8:48am
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Oh, sad and majestic, this poem. It has a steadfastness in its sound, mood, and block-like stanzas. I particularly love these lines:

trees, unlike dreams veering to nightmare
cannot defend themselves and slowly lose...

Cappucine

Apr 27, 2018 at 4:24am
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Lots of elements of Romanticism here, which I love. Well done 😊

Rhyssa

Apr 26, 2018 at 10:57pm
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I love this magical list of things in the pocket. Nicely done.

April 14, 2018 at 2:57am

#932737

2018 PAD number 14

1:
because is the commonest reason
it answers all and nothing

2:
and if our favorite colors are not even
complementary

3:
book of revelations: the doctor wants a journal
how, when, where

4:
who speaks loudest? the me asking aloud
or the other responding rubbish?

5:
why is still my favorite question
why do I still love you?

6:
and trust you with the last embers
of my life? that's a mother's role

7:
the fear is not of death but knowing
nothing about that first tomorrow afterwards

8:
can we talk too much? the others say yes
can we discuss this?

9:
today I feel only morbidity
and not the poetry of accomplishment

10:
if bears could talk about caves
and hibernation, I’d listen

11:
the first step is wet and undefined
I still growl, but that’s fear speaking

12:
spring has not sprung the trap door
so I can gaze again at beauty

13:
forests are filled with charms
few lucky ones can be found in cities

14:
I am mulch not yet processed
into a fine soul

15:
after Cordelia’s first frozen touch
I lost my sixth sense of warmth

16:
sleep is turmoil and tumultuous
restlessness with no empowerment

17:
I reached the “do not open beyond”
date, I missed my first kiss

18:
hunger returns like a tortoise losing the race
not just for food

19:
protecting nothing, I need to live
(scribbled on a napkin)

20:
first dissociation: white
a dictionary of hieroglyphs

21:
second: love
knowledge is not ever enough

22:
what is missing then?
empathy

23:
the chair squeaks as I squirm
each month I am lighter

24:
I have a renewed appetite
wasting time is nirvana

25:
can you still define hope?
only on the nights I dream

further conversations from the other chair
[2018.14.4...a]

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