Same Old Sob Story: Lone Prairie Version

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I'm here to tell you a story

that you already know so well

six-time loser down on her luck

at least this afternoon

we'll be able to hit the food bank

pushed out of the city

because we couldn't afford to stay

the poor are not welcome

on the streets of concrete and asphalt

we didn't want to stay anyway

the moon on the prairie is pretty

the sky is big and on a summer day

the clouds look like ice cream floats

I like it better out here

but old habits and conditions die hard

I am still nowhere even close to having wealth

while I love my affordable crockery

that I purchased during those fleeting moments when I had the means

I wish that I could know security

one of the things that money can buy

I think I'll change the words of the song

to "make good with you"

or maybe "make good on what we do"

since I'm talking about family

specifically, my son

and having a successful life

here on the prairie

and nothing of romance

or any of that sort of nonsense

that I sure as hell don't need 

my own life is enough of a shambles

I don't need an overbearing father

or a spoiled little boy

in an overripe body

thinking that testosterone makes him the boss

I don't speak to much of anybody

I don't allow myself to think much on

things that are going to make me cry

but many days I feel as if my heart might pop

here inside my lonely bubble

I'm trying to get back into my routine

after a week of feeling attacked from many angles

I don't respond well to adversity

I guess the collection agency decided to leave me be

you can't get blood from a stone as they say

I'm still waiting on the delivery of my freezer

~cie~

Day 15: Write a (Blank) Story poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-day-15

Day 16:

Write a City poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-day-16

Day 17: 

Write a Waiting poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-day-17

https://dversepoets.com/2021/04/15/open-link-290-live-edition/

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/04/16/make-it-with-you-challenge-180/

Day 15: Write a poem about a habit you picked up from your parents.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-7/

Day 16: Write a Skeletonic verse.

I didn't do this.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-8/

Day 17: Write a poem about the moon.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-7/

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/same-same-but-different-saturday-mix-17-april-2021/

speak

cry

stop

allow

pop

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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/three-things-challenge-571/

WEALTH

AFFORDABLE

CROCKERY

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Get Bent! (The Walker Strikes Back): A Choka

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The Thing of Evil in front of the house where my son and I live.

I cannot imagine why the hell anyone would want to use this picture, but please credit me if you do.

Here's a Choka composed by my walker. To understand why my walker is miffed at me, you will want to read the preceding poem, composed by me.

https://poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com/2021/04/flipping-script.html

I did not cause you

your physical compromise

you crabby old bag

don't you revile me

when other people talk down

about your body

your hostility

you're misdirecting at me

you can just get bent

your anxiety

their societal bias

these imprison you

you still revile me

you say I make you look bad

though I set you free

I didn't break you

although I cannot mend you

I will support you

if you will allow me to

~cie's walker~

Day 9: Write a persona (inanimate object) poem. The poem was written from my walker's POV.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-day-9

Day 10: Write a Get (blank) poem. As you can see, the walker is telling me to get bent for writing an unkind poem about it.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-day-10

Write a poem about the body or its parts. While the poem's approach is indirect, it references my frustrations at how broken my body is and about using an assistive device to get around.

https://dversepoets.com/2021/04/08/mtb-the-body-poetry/

https://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2021/04/haiku-my-heart-1.html

Day 9: Write a to-do list poem.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-nine-7/

I didn't do this.

Day 10: Write a junk drawer poem.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-ten-9/

My body is kind of a junk drawer of mismatched, poorly working parts. I sometimes wonder if I'm not a Frankenstein monster that Young God cobbled together before he made man in his own image and perfected that experiment when he made woman. 

I eventually escaped from my cage and came down to terrorize Earth. God said, "meh, let her go, she'll come home eventually."

One might say, "but Cie, since you're a woman, aren't you part of that perfected class?"

The thing is, I've never felt like I was a woman. I'm not implying that I have gender dysphoria or that I'm some sort of third sex. I'm fully aware that I'm female, and I'm fine with being female except for the way females are treated, and, to be honest, my periods were pure hell and I could have done without that mess, but it is what it is. Hence why I'm a feminist and not the fun kind. 

What I mean is I never felt like I'm what a woman is supposed to be. I'm not small or pretty or delicate. I may, in fact, be fiercely and wonderfully made, but nobody on this planet is ever going to realize that. Honestly, I've never felt like I was even human because I've always been ridiculed and never found a place to belong.

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Trees of Tomorrow Tanka

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could I be so bold

to see what the future holds

keep searching ahead

shall we plant a fence of trees

that will outlive you and me?

~cie~

The tree pictured above is an American plum. My son and I want to plant trees that are low-maintenance, suitable for Colorado's nutrient-poor and often dry soil and will attract pollinators. As an added benefit, the fruit of these little beauties is edible, and I spent part of my disability back payment to buy a nice water bath canner. I would like to try my hand at making jams and other preserves.

If we take good care of our trees, they will beautify our little town and bring happiness to future generations. It is our goal to leave things better than we found them. We all need to take better care of our world if we want it to keep taking care of us.

The Prompts

April PAD Challenge

Day 2: Write a "what does the future hold" poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-day-2

D'Verse Poets

https://dversepoets.com/2021/04/01/oh-my-its-april-fools-day/

Haiku My Heart

https://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2021/04/haiku-my-heart.html

Mindlovemisery's Menagerie Music Challenge

Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun)

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/keep-searchin-well-follow-the-sun-challenge-179/

NaPoWriMo Day 2

Write a "road not taken" poem.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-two-8/

I...um...sort of followed the prompt. This poem is about a road that my son and I are looking down but haven't taken yet.

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"Invictus" - read by Tom Hiddleston

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Ornery Poetry: Helen MacGuffin

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Helen of Troy by Evelyn De Morgan (1898, London); Helen admiringly displays a lock of her hair, as she gazes into a mirror decorated with the nude Aphrodite.

Consider, please, Helen of Troy

Whose mug spelled doom for thousands of boys

The lads perished for nuffin

Helen's face is a MacGuffin

That conjures neither pleasure nor joy

~cie~

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-countdown-t-minus-5

Write a MacGuffin poem

Please note that I am not implying that Helen is a MacGuffin. She is a critically important character from Greek mythology. The "MacGuffin" is Helen's face, as referred to in the line "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?" from Christopher Marlowe's poem.

From the Wikipedia entry on Helen of Troy

Helen appears in various versions of the Faust myth, including Christopher Marlowe's 1604 play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, in which Faustus famously marvels, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" upon seeing a demon impersonating Helen.^[89] The line, which is frequently quoted out of context,^[89][91] is a paraphrase of a statement from Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead.

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Winona Linn

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World Poetry Day

Who was it that said, "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling"? 

Who was it that said, “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

Who was it that said, “I would define ... the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty.”

Who was it that said, "The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it."

Who was it that said, "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

Who was that said, "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

Who was it that said, "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Who was it that said, "Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."

Who was it that said, "I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.."

Who was it that said, "Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not."

1. Oscar Wilde
2. Alan Ginsberg
3. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Dylan Thomas
5. T.S. Elliot
6. Leonard Cohen
7. Aristotle
8. Carol Ann Duffy
9. Alice Oswald
10. Patti Smith

Ten good reasons from ten superb poets showing us why today is World Poetry Day.
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Alice Eather

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