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Exterminating Fires.
One moment in time a human celebrated curling smoke rising through their homes, and flickering flames shone, softening their fear of growing darkness and the waiting wilful wilderness. Then like Saruman, they learnt to use it to enslave, and invent monstrous machines, turning buried treasures to killing gases, polluting their joy, stealing elite, innate innocence.…
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A Refuge from Incompetence.
Distraught on the rugged, stony cliff, she watched the surf spilling onto rocks. The sussurating sea, a rolling reminder to her of Autumn winds and whirling leaves. ———————————– The mizzling mist came heavily, hugging, and wrapping her with a welcome refuge shushing the hustling agitation in her haven, til eased, soothed, safe on her own…
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Fascist Take Over
Muttering behind their fisted hands, and murmuring voiced their complaints, and muted applause for a strangled clause, that moderates a response while killing goes on. ———————– Burbling streams that wear folk down, and buttering up the cream of influence, and bartered appeals that threaten children, through bargaining that weights the loaded die. ————————- Fractured opposition…
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A Fascist Symphony
Emboldened by the brazen bigotry of his bearing, he betrayed the people who gave him his power, a democracy broken by a peering, prying, lying leader and furthering his feathering by freely paving a patterned pathway in bribes and scandal. ———————————— Helpless we watch and wearily we retweet or write to those who should be…
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Death Ripped Him from Her.
The jagged edges of his death cut through her heart, tearing it out and displaying it for all to see. She looked at it forcing the blood around her body hating it for keeping her alive when he had gone. ——————- Texting messages that showed hope, when she knew the the white…
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Democracy lost.
Their faces hidden by veiled views of disdain towards the poor and unemployed, suffering slaves and a cold contempt for the ones who stand against the constant cover-up of criminal ——– actions that pass unheeded before the courts, which they manipulate to their own ends and the visor of innocence is strengthened by misinformation and…
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Lockdown Terror
Creeping through to the cold kitchen, desperate, daring to decant a drink into her dirty cup from her school bag long since hung up, and the small heart in the little girl clung achingly to the hope that he would not hear. ——————————- Canned from his countless cans, his cantankerous snoring filled her head and…
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Deadly
There was a cloud of purple winged butterflies, fluttering to and fro, settling like thistledown on the flowers and leaves of the thickly wooded slopes of the rising morning misted mountains. —————————— Bees hummed amidst the ruby red geraniums, and their tiny legs filled with he mysteries of multi grains of pollen, carry back to…
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I have a Dream.
“I have a dream,” he spoke clearly and the people cheered and agreed. while government grew the cult of ‘white supremacy” no Klu Klux Klan, begat by burning crosses, visible but the silence of white supremacy shouted through the establishment til the rootedness grew like bindweed ——————————– but only those who threaded their twisting origins…
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Super Powers
The labyrinth closes its teeth upon the walking weary, brides of empty pockets, and plates weighted with weeds for food, and the hungry minotaur of wealthy governments nibbling at their ills and taking away their children. ==================== Each turn brokered a new agreement to supplement their lot, and take away any rights and dreams, turning…
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