In Dreams

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I'm recycling a poem originally published on 3 November 2020. Apologies for missing my appointed rounds during the last two weeks. I'm working on multiple projects including formatting my forthcoming poetry book, December Mood. 

I have finally been approved for disability. I now need to visit with an accountant and I need to call Medicaid. It would be just like the welfare system in the U.S. to screw me by proclaiming that I'm getting "too much money" from SSDI to continue getting Medicaid. The cutoff for Medicaid is $1100 a month and SSDI is going to be giving me $1300 per month. If I have to get insurance, the SSDI payment will be reduced to $900 per month because insurance is damn expensive. 

Anyway, here's the poem.

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in dreams you held me

I wish I'd never woken

beautiful nightmare

 

~cie~

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2020-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day3

 

Today's prompt: 

Write a dream poem, a nightmare poem, or both.

This poem was inspired by my favorite Beyonce song, Sweet Dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlxByc0-V40 

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Heart Break

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you know its the notes

I am entire buckets of trash when it comes to making shape poems. I can make three kinds of shape poems: Triangles, diamonds, and funnels. So, from now on, when someone says; "shape poem," I'm doing text art. I may also be entire buckets of trash when it comes to text art, but I don't think my text art rates quite as many trash buckets as my attempts at shape poems.

It's probably obvious that the "space oddity" line is an homage to David Bowie.

I created this poem for OctPoWriMo 2020. It is going to be included in my third poetry volume, December Mood, which will be published on my 56th birthday this year. That's the day after Valentine's Day, which shall henceforth be known as The Day of the Resting Bitch Face That Never Rests. Get ready for it!

 

Ornery Poetry + Haiku My Heart: Senryu For a Lost World

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Image copyright Cara Hartley

Taken Mother's Day 2017 at the Denver Aquarium 

We were also celebrating my son's 27th birthday

a faraway day

we had lunch with the fishes

in a world that's gone

~cie~

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Photo Challenge 330: Alien Flowers

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an alien flower

almost earthly, but not quite

something from a dream

~cie~

notes

Written for Mindlovemisery's Menagerie Photo Challenge #330

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/09/01/photo-challenge-330/

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Requiem for a Panther

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29 November 1976 - 28 August 2020

Let us celebrate

A giving and regal soul

A king now at rest

~cie~

notes

I'll keep this simple. I was shocked and saddened to learn about the death of Chadwick Boseman from colon cancer. He was a truly decent and kind person. While fighting cancer himself, he took the time to visit young cancer patients and inspire them not to give up. 

The world lost a truly noble spirit with Chadwick's passing, and it is appropriate to grieve this loss. However, it is also appropriate to celebrate the positive effect he had on all whose lives he touched. He was a positive role model for all the world to look up to.

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Ornery Poetry Sunday: Wildfires

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Image from the Lamar Ledger 17 August 2020

https://www.lamarledger.com/2020/08/17/colorado-wildfire-update-august-17-williams-fork-grizzly-creek/

such a hot day

my shadow needs to cool down

under the willow

smoky haze filling the sky

world is burning around me

~cie~

notes

The Hokku (three-line stanza) is © Kyoshi Takahama (1874-1958). The Ageku (two-line stanza) was written by me.

I am well to the northeast of where the above image was taken, but there are wildfires all over the state. We are surrounded by haze. 

https://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2020/08/carpe-diem-tan-renga-wednesday-17.html

I will likely never publish this work in any collection. But who knows for sure?

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Ornery Poetry Sunday: Bully Is As Bully Does

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I don't know who needs to hear this today

But if you think bullying a bully

The way the bully bullies his victims

Using the same cruel words as he uses

You have just become a bully yourself

~Cie the Ornery Old Lady~

Ornery Owl

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I am feeling quite heartbroken today, close to suicidal. I feel that my work is worthless as am I. But I will try to believe and will keep going just in case things can improve somehow.

I wish you all the best.

The Icky, Sticky, Nit-picky Legalese If You Please (or Don't Please)

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Ornery Poetry: The Magician

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In dreams of magic in worlds beyond

While you run free through colorful lands

Have a care not to fall for the deception

Of the Dark Pharaoh’s sleight of hand

For all your willpower and self-reliance

May be but a contrivance

When the Dark Pharaoh pretends to be your friend

And he fills your ears with what you want to hear

Your imagination will be your undoing if you succumb to his wooing

And you are dragged down in the darkness

Magician, beware the deception

Of the Dark Pharaoh’s shriveled black heart

Magician, beware the deception

Of the weavings of the Dark Pharaoh’s art.

Greetings, fellow poetic types. This poem is excerpted from one of Team Netherworld's current WIPs, "Toys in the Attic." It is attributed to the fictional band Blue Mondays. The Dark Pharaoh is an allusion to Nyarlathotep, the trickster god of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

An excerpt from this latest chapter of Toys in the Attic appears here, as well as information on how to purchase the full chapter.

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The Ornery Old Lady's Poetry Archive: Rain

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I wish it would rain

Gloomy day with gray haze

Like the not quite sorrow in my brain

The sky won't cry

Neither will I

Guess neither of us have it in us to try

I have too much

But not enough

Too much trouble

Not enough of the right stuff

I wish it would rain

Wash away my weariness for just a while

I wish the sky would cry

So I wouldn't have to.

~Cie~

Written for the unfortunately now-defunct Alpha-be Thursday

And Now the Notes:

I'm combining Weekend Writing Warriors and Ornery Poetry Sunday. I've uploaded both of my poetry compilations in PDF format to the Poetry of the Netherworld Channel on LBRY. These compilations are also available in Kindle format, but the PDF versions cost approximately half what the Kindle versions do. Visit the Poetry of the Netherworld channel here.

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This poem was written on 21 March 2013. Later in 2013, I regretted writing it because the area I was living in was hit by a flood. My car was hit by a wave of water coming across the road in an area that was normally a field. I struggled with PTSD for some time after that incident, feeling that I didn't deserve to write because people had died and I was still alive. 

I may be dredging poems out of the archive for a while. My life is still quite a chaotic mess from dealing with cleaning out my old mobile home where I lived for 18 years with severe depression and very little in the way of assistance or compassion from others. I was able to make myself go to work and take my son to school, but not much else. The end results are catastrophic. But life is better now even if it is still stressful, and we would like to get on with the poem, wouldn't we? Let's do that.

~Cie the Ornery Old Poet, In Case You Didn't Know It~

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Copyright 2013 by Cara Hartley

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Ornery Throwback: Continuity

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This poem was originally published on 20 March 2013 at the Poetry of the Netherworld blog. (http://poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com) I will include the original notes.

Just one of those days

Moving boxes yet again

Continuity

Trying to get stuff out of a garage-size storage unit by the end of the month when I'm my sole helper until my son has his spring break and can lend a hand really sucks! How did I ever accumulate this much junk?

Updated notes: I address my hoarding issues (and a lot of other crap) in this post if anyone cares to read it.

Ornery Owl

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Ornery Poetry Story Time: Lotus Laments

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Always believing him out of her reach

There was a subtle trembling in her speech

Whenever she had something to report

As she daydreamed of being his consort

But dreams become nightmares for foolish girls

He stole a treasure more precious than pearls

Never could she believe he was that man

A cur in an alley grabs what he can

She believed him to be a righteous gent

Quickly from her heart was that belief rent

He was a doctor, she minded his kids

She is left with the guilt from what he did

Her innocence died upon that cold night

There is nothing on Earth can make it right

Lotus Lakshmi Martha Clifford

13 March 1963

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Notes

If all you wanna see is the poetry, this is is your stop. If you wanna take note of the notes, stick around!

I am very grateful to the folks at the Sunday Muse blog for providing this photo. It turned out to be the push I needed to get out of my stuck place with my WIP, The Ballad of Gerry Clifford.

Lotus is the older sister of the titular character. She was adopted into the large, loving Clifford family when she was six years old. She wrote this sonnet after being molested at twelve years old by the doctor whose children she babysat for.

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Ornery Haiku: Super Flower Moon

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https://www.schoolhos.com/super-flower-moon-may-2020-super-flower-full-moon-on-may-7/

through parted curtains

gold in partly cloudy sky

super flower moon

~cie~

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https://pixabay.com/vectors/man-hat-bearded-cowboy-male-311670/

Ghost Town Grover Sez:

"Back in my minin' days, I loved ter see a big ole golden moon in the sky whilst lazin' 'round a campfire enjoyin' a swig of whiskey or a few with the fellers. But the thing I loved to see most was a big ole golden nugget down in the mine!"

https://pixabay.com/vectors/cactus-character-man-western-154386/

Cactus Clem Sez:

"One of my most favorite things in all the wide world is takin' a stroll on a spring night with the full moon shinin' down on the Lone Prairie. 'Specially if I got a big ole jug of White Lightnin' to swig on now and again."

The Inevitable Legalese and Other Blah-Blah

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Ornery Poetry + Sly Rhymes: The More Things Change (Part 2)

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The more things change, the more they stay shitty

The words of the Orange Dolt ain't pretty

He talks like a clown

Spewing his foolishness 'round

Proving his brain is just itty bitty

~sly has spoken~

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Copyright Julia Henze

NaPoWriMo: Write a review poem of something that doesn't usually get reviewed. Well, it's a review poem anyway. I give this particular subject terrible reviews all the time. Every time I fart, it's a review of what I think of his shitty performance.

April PAD Challenge: Write a change poem. Boy, do we need a change before Vice-Admiral Shitbrain sinks not only his own ship but the whole goddamn fleet with his egotistical ineptitude.

notes

I'm keeping it simple today and just having fun, letting my snarky, politically inclined alter-ego, Sly Fawkes, take the reins. This poem isn't anywhere near good enough to share on any of my subscription platforms.

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