Tingling in your body and your hair stands on end.
Your heart beats faster skipping beats, sweat prickles your brow .
Anticipation and excitement are natures healthy drugs, keeping the world turning
31 words
46 syllables.
Ronovan Writes Sijo Wednesday Poetry Challenge #11. Use EXCITEMENT as your inspiration this week.
25 May 2022 11 Comments
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How have we come to this?
25 May 2022 37 Comments
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Yesterday, Nineteen young children and two adults died in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas.
Watch the wall.
Watch the wall my darlings as the gunman passes by,
Hush now everyone or he will double back and kill us if he hears you cry.
He doesn’t care that guns are not allowed
I know he will not stop to think before firing into a crowd.
Try not to whimper as he will hear that too
He has shot your little friends for less and he will do the same to you.
Here, cuddled up to me my darlings lets all play sleeping lions
Keep calm or become more satistics in this crime.
Yes those are your friends my darlings but we cannot help them now.
You are in my care here and to keep you safe I vow .
Who is he is my darlings I have no idea,
We need not think of him, he is of no consequence my dear.
What is important is that you stay with me here.
Silent as a mouse, no noise for him to hear.
Oh! yes. Watch the wall my darlings as the gunman passes by,
Hush now everyone, he will double back and kill us if he hears you cry.
I wote this poem in November 2012 after the school Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. There have been more massacres since and not only in schools, places of worship, supermarkets, concerts. Nothing has changed nothing has been done… WHY? There have been so many of these incidents in the intervening years that now Gun Shootings in schools cause more children’s deaths than any other reason in America .
The media should not give the murders any air time they should should not be named . This only encourages the next mad man or woman to out do them. Gun laws need to be stricter and no one needs a gun in their home. Mental health needs to have more funds pumped into it so these people can be found and treated before they cause such grief.
Let us not forget the forgotten victims these shootings, all the murder’s families.
How have we come to this, Children killing Children?
One Liner Wednesday. 25.May 2022.
25 May 2022 12 Comments
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#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 275, 5/24/22, #THEMEPROMPT.
25 May 2022 24 Comments
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Here we are for another #TankaTuesday poetry challenge! Colleen asks “Are you ready for a theme prompt? Kerfe selected this month’s theme:”
This month’s theme is:
“Useful”
Yesterday and today I’ve hit a wall. At first I was worried but then I decided why worry as my father always said worry is not useful it is a waste of time and energy because it changes nothing. So I have written a three verse Abhanga. I know it’s not good but I used my brain and at least I tried. Better to try and fail than not to try at all. Thank you Dad.
What’s Useful
Eyes do more than just see
They’re windows to the soul
Some devour you whole
Eyes are useful
Hands can hold a baby
They help when there is need
Some give, some full of greed
Hands are useful.
Brains make our bodies work
They help us live out life
We choose success or strife
Brains are useful.
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