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Sat Apr 21, 2018 2:45 pm
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poem 53

abby asks an armadillo,
"are ants awesome?"
an armadillo answers,
"ants are as awesome
as anteaters and armadillos are."

@alliyah

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Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:23 pm
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poem 54

a spoonful of sugar,
helps the coffee i
need to function go
down the gullet.

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Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:31 pm
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poem 55

do the tree frogs always sound like this?
so peaceful but also so afraid, barking in
some sort of unison, humans cannot even
begin to try and understand.

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Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:33 pm
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poem 56

lizards lounge lazily
while
monkeys manufacture more munitions
and
narwhals nap noisily north of nome

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Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:38 pm
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poem 57

an ant asks
"are aardvarks awesome as well"
a blue bear barks back,
"can't tell.
don't know that
expression."

"ok
well that was
so helpful"
the ant ever so
sarcastically replies,
only to be eaten by
the bear when it
eats the berry
the ant had taken
as a lounge chair.

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Sat Apr 21, 2018 11:38 pm
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poem 58

how fast can you run?
past all that you have
ever known and out
into the field where
absolutely nothing
can ever be known.

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Sat Apr 21, 2018 11:40 pm
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poem 59

the seasons pass so quickly by,
as do all of the countable days
and many of the opportunities
that may somehow come my way.
somehow i manage to miss all
of them, distracted by my current
project that keeps towing me
down. i have no horizon to
look onto and here i am
in some not so quick sand,
waiting for someone to throw
me a line or an easy way out.

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Sat Apr 21, 2018 11:42 pm
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poem 60

the words come so much more easily now.
i find myself so motivated to write and write,
like a lightning bolt shocked me through and
through, spreading the creativity around. it
was once stuck in my brain but now i can only
feel it rapidly coursing through my veins. it
can give me some form of life that i never
felt before, i'm on top of the world and no
one can ever stop me with a block again.

that is, until i reach a plot hole.

the darkness is back and those few
moments of clarity, are just going to go
back to being simple mundane day dreams.

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Sun Apr 22, 2018 6:52 pm
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Haha I love #60 and the creative way it describes writing and then falling into plot holes c:
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Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:12 pm
Cadi says...



Ooh, I love #55 and #58 - both incredibly concise in conveying something that feels quite profound.
"The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it." --Douglas Adams
  





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Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:55 pm
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poem 61

if i could only write about two things,
it would be for all the food in the world
and the religion that belongs to me, for
i no longer see anything at all in you.

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Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:57 pm
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poem 62

five pies sit cooling in a window sill.
a crow quickly flies by, making an
exclamation about the lovely, lovely pies.
he thinks about the danger and checks
on his will, then quickly jumps through
the window and into the kitchen, to get
his fill.

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Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:04 pm
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poem 63

troops set off from martinsburg in west virginia,
young boys with no desire to fight their neighbors.
but their congress had spoken and now they had to go,
and fight their sworn enemy down in winchester.

for reference of this poem:
Martinsburg, WV and Winchester, VA are about 25 miles apart.
Winchester has quite a few battlefields and was an important Confederate holding because it was 15 or so miles from the border of WV. The closeness also meant they would have the access from there to the B&O railroad and the C&O canal.
Those are just extra facts. The point of this poem is that the people fighting in portions of WV/VA were literally neighbors and sometimes relatives. That's part of what happened to my family.

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Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:10 pm
Brigadier says...



poem 64

aw yes.
mixed religious and civil war poetry.
get ready for this new theme.

standing at potomac,
looking from shore to shore.
the generals call and ask if
we can fight a bit more. but
our feet are torn and bloody,
we do not know where to go.
so i will stand here at the
potomac, and wait for a
heavenly call from you.

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Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:33 pm
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poem 65

all the sparkles and glitter in the world,
can't get you into heaven. no matter
how blinding your thousand dollar skirt
is, it's still not worth as much as a kind
heart and the thoughts that pass through
the head of a good person.

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