Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Three Nightmares


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Three Nightmares

stranded
no poetry, music, art
TV blares news

accolades
forgotten or damaged
I'm fired

summer
bobbing in its wake
unrested


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2017



This is a warmup poem for Laura Shovan's Annual February Writing Project. The words/phrases for this poem

fire
accolades
summer
damaged
wake
news
suspects
french
shooting
stranded

originated here.


1 comment:

  1. These are nightmares, as is the story that gave you the seed-words.

    I was struck by Trudeau's words, ones that Obama might have said not very long ago, and what a mean season it is.

    “It is heart-wrenching to see such senseless violence,” he said in a statement early Monday. “Diversity is our strength, and religious tolerance is a value that we, as Canadians, hold dear.”

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