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“Oh I hate obnoxious people,”
the woman yelled,
just behind me
as I drank tea.
I thought, ‘how ironic is that!’
Her loud chit-chat
filled the café,
drove guests away.
Such rudeness I could not endure.
I glared at her,
I had no choice,
“an indoor voice?!!!”
~kat
(NaPoWriMo 2017 #21 – A Minute Poem for today’s prompt: write a poem that incorporates overheard speech. This is a true story. 🙂 )
To the Homeless…
I wonder where you spend your nights
when everyone is tucked in tight.
Are you still wandering the streets
with no safe place to lay your head;
a cardboard box to call your bed?
Dark shadows looming while you sleep,
beneath the moon and stars above;
were you someone, were you loved?
You’re not invisible to me.
~kat
(NaPoWriMo 2017 #16 – for the prompt: write a “letter”, a Nove Otto Poem – nine-lines with 8 syllables per line (isosyllabic)/rhyme scheme: aacbbcddc.
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Peace in Pieces
The sky is falling send in the drones
no place to hide enough is enough
little by little show them who’s boss
hope slips away weak we are not
death is a gift they won’t soon forget
when life is pure hell bomb them to bits
mercy is madness mercy’s for losers
though some live to tell who haven’t a clue
darkness unending bleeding heart saps
no place to hide enough is enough
the sky is falling send in the drones
~kat – 7 April 2017
(NaPoWriMo 2017 #7 – Today’s prompt suggestion was to write something along the lines of “luck” and “fortuitousness”, but I’m afraid I didn’t have the heart for it.
A Cleave Poem – How to read a Cleave Poem (three poems in one) 1) read the Italic column top to bottom 2) Read the Bold column top to bottom 3) read each line across top to bottom)
Tweeting disaster
narcissistic, misogynist,
spoiled man-child…
Savior
wall-builder,
phenomenal dealer
making things great again.
Kat – 5 April 2017
(NaPoWriMo 2017 #5 – Septolet – 7 lines/14 words with a break in between, each stanza dealing with the same subject. Here I am showing two different points of view.)
bloviator
blah blah, sis-boom bah, la-la-la
forget about some kumbaya
no one’s listening anymore
all your lies have slammed that door
build your towers, build more walls
twit your tweets, we’ll watch you fall
blah blah, sis-boom bah, la-la-la
forget about some kumbaya
-kat – 2 April 2017
(NaPoWriMo 2017 #2 – An Octelle Poem – The syllable count structure is 8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, and the rhyme scheme is aa/bb/cc/aa. The first two lines and the last two repeat.)
like mercury colliding... 