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That tribal celebration that always comes before the big battle scene (a poem)

2017/01/16 — Leave a comment

I spent a good chunk of the afternoon trying to write one of those Important Statement poems that appear every once in a while. It was not working, however, coming across at various points as either too earnest, too forced, or both. So I am posting this more honest poem instead, which I wrote while watching Mom and Dad Save the World…
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Now I’m the invisible man (a poem)

2015/03/12 — Leave a comment

For today’s poem, I used a prompt posted on Tumblr by @promptsgalore’:

Write something that takes place at a park at night and includes the following:
• unrequited love
• spilled coffee
• the color yellow
• a lyric from your favorite song
• dancing

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