Tag: #nightmare
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The Sunday Whirl ~ Wordle 506 ~ #Poetry
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People, follow the signback through historyListen to the still voiceleading you through the droughtKeep note of the symbolyou have seen along the wayThe week ahead will slide awayToo fast the end comesYour rights have been assaultedBy an onslaught of other opinionsLet it be, don’t pour oil on fire… © Anita Dawes 2021
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The Listener
I answered a phone call.I stood hearing words I should not.The voice spoke with a mouthful of gravel,Scraping against my eardrumsIt’s done, they’re both dead.I felt as if I had been dropped into a vat of starch.My body stiffened; my hand glued to the receiver.I now know the location of the buried bodies,Not far from…
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Free Fall… #Poetry
Too hot to sleep in bed, I drag my duvet to the garden It feels cool beneath the stars I watch, as shadows dance across the face of the moon What or who they are I cannot tell until they begin to free fall, growing larger, the nearer to Earth they come I stood with…