Category Archives: Social Issues

To the Homeless…NaPoWriMo 2017 #16


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.


Peace in Pieces – NaPoWriMo 2017 #7

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The destroyer U.S.S. Porter launched a Tomahawk missile from the Mediterranean Sea on Friday. Credit: Ford Williams/U.S. Navy, via Associated Press

 

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)


More Biggly – NaPoWriMo 2017 #5

 

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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 – NaPoWriMo 2017 #2


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.)


Doors – A Haiku

auras could mingle,
presence, just a breath away
before there were doors

-kat – 29 March 2017

For Haiku Horizons Challenge based on the prompt word, “door”.