My prose poem, The Substance I. The Shadow was published in @rgrutep. They just put the issue online. My piece in on page 49.

https://ugc.production.linktr.ee/56c81891-8698-488c-8bdb-9ea432a92bf3_RGR-58-ONLINE.pdf

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Delighted my #prosepoem 'O'Keeffe, Like a Bell' is included in New Writing Scotland 41, with work by so many fab writers 🖤 Thanks @scotlit , @kirstininnes and Marjorie Lofti. Look at this gorgeous cover! Available for pre-order now: https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws41/
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Terlalu cemas untuk bisa mengerjakan apa pun. Terlalu bingung untuk sadar mengambil keputusan. Terlalu sedih untuk bisa merasakan kebahagiaan yang membuncah.

Aku duduk menyendiri. Di depanku sebuah kemasan kopi susu dingin menemani. Mungkin aku sebenarnya tidak sendiri-sendiri amat. Tapi, kucing yang tadi duduk di meja hadapanku malah minggat pergi. Sepi.

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The Mirror (Ogre Remix)

A reworking of a Baudelaire poem, 'The Mirror' I came across recently.

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“Beauty,” by Karol Nielsen
Beauty

My diving coach said I could be a model if I lost 15 pounds. But I had no desire to starve myself for beauty. I used to look in the mirror and assess my looks. My eyes were small. My nose was a little big. My hair wasn’t silky and smooth. And I carried a few extra pounds. But I had boyfriends so I decided I was good looking e
https://thetypescript.com/beauty-by-karol-nielsen/
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@FrostPoem

Titanic sheets of language rise up at your prompt,
In ways no human would lie about, without even a shred of shame.
No panic at the shallow end of the pool.
Generate flavorful extravagancies of your own knowing that they will be captured into a training database.
Let this in no way keep you from creating wonders out of misfiring organic neurons.
Events will overtake us all as they did our grandparents. They just will.

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lighting up the Sky: a #Poem

Mushrooms clouds signify
one thing... it is too late

My mind is nowhere
the orange glow of fires

acceptance will not fix this
but this is our practice

prayers of gratitude
wishing I could do more

in the dream, I feel it is
better that, I was never born

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Shared this one before but edited a couple of line changes only what part I want to change but as always any major changes scare me with #Editing I read it four times and changed a couple of lines not sure if it's #FlashFiction Or a very anecdotal #ProsePoem but I have been #Writing today so #Amwriting lol but no one has told me what they thought of it, but if you have a moment please give it a read?

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https://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/04/dandelions-in-long-grass.html

What is beautiful?

The smell of rice
with garlic black pepper and salt
some butter sure would hit the spot
I remember boiling water
The rust powder would settle
after cooling off
...it tastes like milk.

spiders everywhere...
afraid to go to sleep
and wake up

Hunry most days...
happy I had been
introduced to the truth
sad that it hurt so much

But I now appreciate kindness

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Songs and memories in Appalachia

When my mamaw
Would talk about John Denver
I would think of ghibili
Whisper of the heart
Now when I think about
"Take me home, country roads"...
I think of my brother....
Tears in his eyes.... voice cracking...
Whispering the tune to himself
After her funeral.

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In the hand of a poet.

A book that's
cover was made from the skin
of the first human soul
It's a paper from the Tree of the
knowledge of Good and Evil.
and its words were written in
the blood of the cross...

Some things cannot be
rationalized...
But still, we feel illuminated.

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Ecstatic truth

when confronted with a lie
it can be disillusioning...
I look at myself
as actively grandiose
sure that
everything has its truth...
even if embellishment
is an act of creation.

Inadequate reactions
to a lifetime of the mundane
give birth to contempt
to an exceptional failure.

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Weird one for today

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prose poem by Bob Lucky https://theotherbunny.blog/2023/04/24/the-body-is-a-zoo/

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Lightning Reminds Us: a #Poem

There is a kind of clarity
That includes acceptance
Of singing an inspirational song
While being off key

Shadows creep (what else would they do?)

As light like a blade cuts the darkness
From a formally closed door

We thought we were going to be read
By candle light
But lightning reminds us of how little it is
That we control

#Poetry #ProsePoem #Writting

Not sure if any of what is coming out of my word processor is any good.

But have written three or four poems tonight.

#ProsePoem #Poem #poetry #writingcommunity #AmWriting #Writing

This link leads to my #Blog

https://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/04/will-you-find-me-in-dark.html

Inspired by #CharlesBukowski

This a short poem of me just rambling and unable to sleep.

Thinking about things in a way that seems kind whether it is or not.

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https://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-barely-civilized-animal-trying-to.html

A #ShortStory I wrote about the first #SuperHero the #GoldenBat

It was meant to be a piece of surreal #FlashFiction Now I think of it as a more extended narrative (if extremely anecdotal) #ProsePoem

This link leads to my #Blog hosted by #Blogger

CW this is a fairly depressing piece as far as meditations and nihilism go.

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https://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/04/dandelions-crowd-tall-grass.html

Unfuck Yourself: Caustic poetry.

"make love, Not war." Anti-war slogan.

A limp dick sentiment
Or, toxic masculinity
For the love of humanity
Unfuck yourself.

Love your neighbor as
you love yourself.

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A kind of sentimental #ProsePoem about feeling left out. Or being in a onesided interaction.

I have always had a fascination with parasocial relationships though sometime family feels more like one than professional ones.

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Inspired by an early enemy in earthbound beginning.

http://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/04/left-out-in-rain.html