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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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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 21, 2018 at 6:46am

#933186

2018 PAD number 21

1:
the plums were for my mother
she died while you were away

2:
the fruit you ate were large purple grapes
from Japan, you never had any taste

3:
red, juicy plums, filled with sweet-tooth
yearnings, or those, I meant to say,
of expecting mothers

4:
Margarita, our third-floor neighbor
told me her plums disappeared last night
what else do you take from her?

5:
the real ones are always in the fruit bowl
it’s amazing you still digest wax so well

6:
forgive you?
what offering did you leave in their place?

7:
have I ever mixed plums in the morning smoothie?
I buy them for you, to nourish your guilt

8:
left on the unset breakfast table: they were a gift
for your mother and her sudden arrival
I’ve left for an undramatic weekend

9:
I have forgiven infidelity and bankruptcy
you can taste my sweet, ice-box shoulders at bedtime

10:
this is just to say I found
the no-longer-secret bank account, emptied most of it elsewhere,
and changed your password
plums are a beggar's luxury now

snark on a midnight snack
[2018.21.4…a]
After William Carlos Williams "This is just to say"
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/just-say

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