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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 28, 2018 at 3:30am

#933565

2018 PAD number 28

This is not what I intended.
Creating millions of life forms
to highlight the diversity of perfection.
And one -- although if he looks farther
than the center of his own shadow --
will discover other animals possess
the power to reason and emote, yet
he created religions that no longer honor
my perfection. Each branch of Tree of Faith
shares roots in the strong foundation
of the symbol "Do unto others. »
"Thou shalt not » has become selfish
in the name of my god. Man has cast
aside the shadow that truly guides
and burnt by the light, which contains
as much blight, has forgotten simplicity,
good and the truth of love, understanding
and acceptance. Man's greatness dwindles.
His honor clogs the rain’s purity.

This is not what I intended. Precipitating
death serves nothing but vileness. Blossoms
and forests cannot rise up and fight their own
extinction. The animal kingdom can no
longer survive. The winds and oceans,
irritated to their cores by man's disregard,
are rising with empathy for my inner turmoil.
Their intensity grows like disappointment.
Will you listen now, before endless night
strikes yet another time to wipe away life?
Will my words fall as faint whispers upon the
deafening isolation you create around yourself?

His words left unchecked
[2018.28.4...a]

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