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The Life Lessons's avatar

"Midnight Snack"

Deep in the black, I feel nothing

but I see everything that I want to

wish it into existence. Deep in the

black, I am disturbed knowing

that I am closer to death than birth.

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"Picture Day"

I ran into the bathroom.

I can see my face, but it isn’t mine.

My teeth fall out. They’re the shape of hearts.

I panic trying to put them back in.

What am I going to do? It’s picture day.

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Poetry Rise's avatar

So relatable

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Miner Poet's avatar

Thank you for featuring my poem!

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Debbi's avatar

Try to get there

Escher’s stairs to all directions

Red door on each landing

Mail box key finally found

Unreadable receipts locked inside

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Poetry Rise's avatar

Ooh this is good

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Debbi's avatar

Thank you

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Daily Self-Love Practice's avatar

Okay, I love 5-line poems and need to start trying out these prompts. Thank you!

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Poetry Rise's avatar

Looking forward to reading your first one with us!

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Sage Taylor Kingsley's avatar

YES, you can fly—watch!

Onlookers surround, curious

She lifts … hovers … Supermans

Gasps! Eyes, mouths open. Awe.

So easy… Bed. Bam! Awww.

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MET Arrus's avatar

Give me a moment to feel good about wanting to weep. Give me another to tell myself it's OK that I can not. Still, this moment isn't any less cathartic.

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HeatherFH's avatar

"Us Midlife Women"

Too many of us midlife women, we were raised to be polite, not brave.

Taught to soothe egos, keep the peace.

But the tough women before us and the bold babes now,

They deserve our jaws unhinged, our voices raised.

Silence for peace in today's America is a borrowed shield.

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Travis Hupp's avatar

This is my submission for the 5-line surrealist dream prompt:

HICCUPS

Glass grows from her fingertips

She says no one's allowed here

so I ask why she's here

All entirety collapses in on her answer

the hiccups of spacetime are getting severe

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Clarabelle Learmonty's avatar

Supermarket

Hey, you! A man

Shouts at me.

I'm not coming back, I say

As I leave the supermarket,

And he throws his teeth at me.

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Nora O’Dowd's avatar

Dream Job

Digging up the garden with a silver spoon

each helping drenched in blood

from the oozing corpse with yellow socks

patiently awaiting an earthy berth,

pale benediction and courteous worms

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Ray Sweatman's avatar

thanks for the likes and the feature and the cool analysis

prompt 1:

The Song of Wild Geese

The mold will not hold the letters of the English alphabet, they fly nelly nilly

Into the pilot’s eye, who says all the houses look the same, let’s land here

The last branch breaks with the congressman dangling, where wild geese,

Their geese eyes gone, try not to fall in, singing My Sadness Is Not My Own,

Which scratches and honks and repeats the whole loopity day long.

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kate's avatar

prompt #1 I go and look for you

hazy edges of your profiles but I know to define family. We are sat at a table, shapeless.

as the cook serves the pizza, he warns me of the quiet, and the harsh green walls scream absence.

I had forgotten the loudness of your presence

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Kat Pierce's avatar

Prompt #1: "Playmates"

You are pulling my hair until

it turns into the road that leads me back to you.

We are playing dolls in the dollhouse,

only we are the dolls and ourselves, and

the world is so large we get lost in it.

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Kat Pierce's avatar

Prompt #1: "Water birth"

I am giving birth in a water bath of petroleum jelly

and the doctors and nurses and midwives all crowd round

because a baby hasn’t been born here in weeks, months, years.

But when they yank him from me he is only a fat gold watch, ticking.

They drop him in the water and the ticking stops.

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Silver's avatar

#1 prompt

Grace

I loved how we talked in the middle of night

Your thoughts emerged as the spark of light

My heart fluttered ,with a smile on my face

How could you stur such calm , such grace,

When for me, it wasn't such an easy place?

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