it is too horrible to bear the evil rained on innocents by megalomaniacs bent on spreading terror everywhere women and children, they don’t care the world sees with open eyes the fire falling from the skies the cities leveled, sirens sound while families huddle underground this is how democracy dies
close your eyes and ears act like everything’s okay… enough! i cannot
~kat
Napowrimo 2022 Day Three - Off Topic. I just couldn’t bring myself to lift entire stanzas of work from another poet. I know what it’s like to bleed for those words and lines that fit together just so. I gave it a go, spent hours perusing anonymous’ poems and public domain listings…but my initial feeling was the same. It is unlike blackout poetry where one lifts a random word here and there to create something new. And so here is a late entry for the third day, on a matter that tears at my heart, as it must for many of you. Peace to you…oh let there be peace.
The poetry forms i’m using here are the Décima and Haibun.
I thought the suggested form was very complicated Kat and I don’t blame you for going your own way with a very relevant poem. You may wish to bear rather than bare though!
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April 4th, 2022 at 1:46 am
No one should or can pretend that this tragedy is not happening right now
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April 4th, 2022 at 5:55 am
Absolutely.
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April 4th, 2022 at 6:18 am
👍🏼
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April 4th, 2022 at 7:16 am
I thought the suggested form was very complicated Kat and I don’t blame you for going your own way with a very relevant poem. You may wish to bear rather than bare though!
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April 4th, 2022 at 7:40 am
hah! my editor in chief. thank you Peter! ❤️
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