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Potentiation
The busybody auction blockhead boys
chomp at the bit to denigrate the meek
with foreseen labels like "loser" or "freak"
as peace is what whore purpose destroys;
a cold ambition, so gravely misled,
but to instigators most addicting
when by its coercion soon predicting
who's left behind and who will get ahead...
ahead of all except the greater good,
whose teamwork would have else wise provided
the most to make of any neighborhood
where wit and effort are coincided
with surplus stacked like seasoned cords of wood...
for houses standing...wholly undivided.
chomp at the bit to denigrate the meek
with foreseen labels like "loser" or "freak"
as peace is what whore purpose destroys;
a cold ambition, so gravely misled,
but to instigators most addicting
when by its coercion soon predicting
who's left behind and who will get ahead...
ahead of all except the greater good,
whose teamwork would have else wise provided
the most to make of any neighborhood
where wit and effort are coincided
with surplus stacked like seasoned cords of wood...
for houses standing...wholly undivided.
Published 16th Nov 2023
Author's Note
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
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16th Nov 2023 8:14am
16th Nov 2023 8:24am
16th Nov 2023 11:20am
16th Nov 2023 8:02pm
Thanks Lauryn,
It's just my scatterbrain reacting to the ominous headlines,
but I'm glad you liked it:)
It's just my scatterbrain reacting to the ominous headlines,
but I'm glad you liked it:)
16th Nov 2023 7:20pm
Your poetic analogies
are so spot on and creative at the same time.
Great work!
are so spot on and creative at the same time.
Great work!
Contrast and comparison, metaphor, correlation, and analogy; these are how we all really think as they are the poet's version of the mathematician's equal sign, and we use both cerebral tools when we go shopping, or at least we should.
I'm delighted by your comment, and really appreciate you tuning in:)
I'm delighted by your comment, and really appreciate you tuning in:)
17th Nov 2023 11:29am
You grabbed by attention with that first line and I was there for each and every cleverly composed one thereafter, MS!
Another fantastic read....
(As naive as I may be, I continue to hold out some semblance of hope that there are potentially more folks that make up the majority of the country who do wish for unobstructed progress for the greater good and it's just the death throes of a bygone minority that get the most coverage because the realization of trying like hell to hold onto an outdated and deplorable belief/narrative fills them with nothing but fear....just my early morning thoughts... Again, thanks for sending out your thoughts into the world.
I'm listening! )
Much love and happy early Thanksgiving to you and yours.
🌹B
Another fantastic read....
(As naive as I may be, I continue to hold out some semblance of hope that there are potentially more folks that make up the majority of the country who do wish for unobstructed progress for the greater good and it's just the death throes of a bygone minority that get the most coverage because the realization of trying like hell to hold onto an outdated and deplorable belief/narrative fills them with nothing but fear....just my early morning thoughts... Again, thanks for sending out your thoughts into the world.
I'm listening! )
Much love and happy early Thanksgiving to you and yours.
🌹B
Oh goodness gracious do I ever love your comments!
I sure hope you are right about the fading hard ass sentiments of the bygone era, because I am still scratching my head about the boomer predilection for violence.
I hope you get the most immense turkey, or the equivalence thereof.
Happiest of thanksgivings to you and all your crew!
I sure hope you are right about the fading hard ass sentiments of the bygone era, because I am still scratching my head about the boomer predilection for violence.
I hope you get the most immense turkey, or the equivalence thereof.
Happiest of thanksgivings to you and all your crew!
21st Dec 2023 2:05pm
The Twisted Sonnet competition has finished.
And if you are interested I've left a few notes
on the last page.
And if you are interested I've left a few notes
on the last page.
