gainfully employed

Global Unemployment

lose employment
another degree
certifications
up the ying-yang

your platform
a catchy pitch
shiny resume
beefed up CV

contemporary economics
praise the few
sustainably styled
scrappy spirited

limelight, pride
shining star
your life’s
a rambling poem

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Written for:

Life’s like Poetry –  Prompt # 148

Also Posted on:

The Poetry Pantry Is Now Open – #92

The Poetry Pantry

Photo Credit:  world news

angular acceleration

angular acceleration

motive power
operations maintained
mainline conditions

electrification
locomotive traction
widespread desirability

inertial moment
rotational momentum
corresponds

circumlocution
simple torque
management

obstinate flywheels
consummating
transportation

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Written and Posted:

Magpie Tales – Mag 109

Photo Credit:  Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

senryu of blues and honesty

Giant Blue Spider on Cobweb

i sing my own blues
i walk in people’s stories
their honest passion

grey clouds through blue sky
moving rapidly today
winds, variable

the world-wide cobweb
in my uncomfortable brain
can’t banish the blues

giant blue spider
also seeks some honesty
acceptance and love

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Written for:

Prompt #111 – blue

Also written for:

challenge 311 – “honesty”

Image Credit: Bat-Ami Gordin  © 2012 all rights reserved, credit if you use it, please. If interested in vector graphics form, please contact me.

anything but

This is the damage a hoarder can do

to hoarders, addicts and all those mentally dysfunctional people who have the right to systematically destroy everyone else’s life around them yet no one has the no right to stop them until, maybe, after the havoc and destruction is committed

refuse, feces
peanut butter, noodles
tear drenched pillow
physical contact

moldy dishes
cracker crumbs
fly paper
straight up Vodka

copy machine panel
kibble bags
loose carpet fiber
entitlement check

gastric volcano
intestinal flat worms
cerebral hornets
obligations to be met

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Written for:

 

Write2Day–A Love Affair with Words

We were asked to dip into an addiction or a few of your choice, or enter the mind of an addict, and see what happens.

Also posted on:

Poetry Picnic Week 28: These Are A Few of My Favorite Things (A Repost)

Photo Credit:  Bat-Ami Gordin  © 2009 all rights reserved, credit if you use it, please. If interested in vector graphics form, please contact me.

radiation rampage

NASA – Goddard – Solar Dynamics Observatory Records Solar Flares

fluctuating flight
magnetic motion
mercurial mantle
faux fizzing fluxes

flares forced further
through tortured
traumatic tension
flowing flexibility

roiling ribbons
corrugated cycles
capricious cannonade
radiation rampage

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Posted on:

R is for READ

Also Posted on:

OpenLinkNight — Week 44

Image from The Grand Duchy of Stollen

@OldeYellerCat asked me to write a poem about the solar activity

Photo credit: NASA  Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Shrill Limerick

Paul Stanley of Kiss

a rock band was terribly shrill
providing their fans a big thrill
the lead guitarist was drowned
by a strange distorted sound
they were using a stanley hand drill

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Written for:

Shrill Limerick (Limerick-Off Monday)

Photo Credit:  Paul Stanley

exciting haiku/senryu

Soaring with the Eagles

exciting haiku/senryu

most exciting day
birds float in warm spring breezes
hoping they can mate

angry and happy
multi-excitable state
constant turbulence

constant excitement
easily agitated
living together

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Written for:

This week’s theme is:   Excite

Photo Credit: Naomi Gray Bird’s Eye View – postcards from paradise

three cultural revolutionary tanka

Children in Their Natural Wild State

highest dimensions
souls reawakened
flourishing forces
veil between worlds uplifted
revolutionary wave

insurgent powers
on catastrophic courses
charge into the fray
take advantage of the weak
holding only humble hope

sensory rebirth
down to earth metaphysics
new world envisioned
cultural independence
streaming literary works

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Written for:

The Frog in His Fresh Waters

Photo Credit: mouse medicine

withered wanderer

Ella's Garden

withered wanderer
traversing
interwoven seasons
nourishing summer rain
sipped off
rarest petals
scattered colors
of autumnal equinox
coolness gathers
whitecapped rapids
fleeting blossoms
live without tenacity

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Written for:

Sunday Mini-Challenge

Photo Credit: Ella

depth of field

depth of field

years
out of focus
oozing
singular causes
journies
stricken
from memory
keen vision
lost
life lacks
depth of field

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Written and Posted:

Magpie Tales – Mag 108

Photo Credit:  Uzengia Aleksander Nedic