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Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2338096

Brief prose and poetry lacking other categories...

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The poem which placed second at "Writing 4 Kids" Open in new Window. is "Earth is Home" Open in new Window.. That is more of my style *Angelic*

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October 3, 2025 at 8:21am
October 3, 2025 at 8:21am
#1098530
I'm a mean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog and lone,
I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own
I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep
I love to sit and bay the moon, to keep fat souls from sleep…
         From “Lone Dog,” by Irene Rutherford McLeod

Fearsome and tough, I show off my suit
Growling and scowling and searching for loot.
My hook keeps sworn enemies at bay
While I guard the treasures I've dug up today.

They say it's survival of those most fit:
Well, I've got the will, the strength and the grit.
With wisdom and skill, I sail stormy seas
And clamber to tops of swaying palm trees.

A loner forever, I pay no mind to hate
Assigning those who despise me to their own fate.
Life's taught me none can be trusted for sure
If I give them an inch, they'll only snatch more.

I look out for myself – that's all I can do –
Shipmates are trouble, I tell you it's true.
Mutiny’s impossible when one runs the ship
With nobody disturbing, it's a smooth easy trip.

At day's end I settle in my bunk for a sleep
I'm the only one my soul to keep.
No prayers for others, least of all me,
I'm captain of my bark on life's forsaken sea.

Words: 171. Lines: 20. AABB rhyme.
Written for "Writing 4 Kids" Open in new Window.
Prompt: photo of a bulldog wearing a pirate costume.
Consider it a mashup of the above quoted poem, William Ernest Henley's Invictus, and the Imagine Dragons song Take Me to the Beach.

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October 3, 2025 at 8:03am
October 3, 2025 at 8:03am
#1098528
Blight lies heavy on parched land choked with weeds
When did everlasting streams of justice run dry?
Replaced by disintegrating systems, overburdened by traitors
Dragging innocent workers off public streets,
Exiled to countries crooked or desperate enough to accept them.
Holidays drained, harvests mangled by tariffs.
Shutdown! Describes minds, hearts, and government.
I'm angry at everything – everyone's being played for a fool.
Reasoning – trying to give sight to the blind.
Plot twist – they'd rather not see!
Billionaires laugh behind walls of hate and fear
Inflating prices, rents, rates – chopping benefits –
slathering white-out over history,
While we the people call each other bigots
Squabbling over labels like starving dogs in garbage.
What kind of harvest season is this?
Do we have anything to be thankful for?
I can offer no glue to mend a fractured mess.
Empty purses, failing infrastructure, despair exploding in chaos.
Yet… a microscopic germ of faith remains undeterred.
Though buildings languish unfinished, crops rot in their fields,
I give exhausted praise to the One Who created me.
What else can I do?

23 lines, 175 words. Free verse.
Inspired by Amos 5:24, Psalms 10 & 73, and Habakkuk 3:17-19.
Written for "Rebel Poetry Contest" Open in new Window. and "Golden Apples Writing Contest Forum" Open in new Window.
Rebel Poetry prompt 2: Make us understand this poem contains the words behind your scream.
Golden Apples prompt: harvest (moon)

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