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#SoCS – The Week That Was
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “heavy/light/dark.” Use “light” and/or its opposites. Bonus points if you use all three. Enjoy! Good Lord, this was a heavy, dark week. I’m ready for a little light. I’ll now collect my bonus points. Thank you.
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#SoCS – Just Do It
Go, my children, and buy cheap Nike’s online from China, hoping they are “legit” so you can wear them as status symbols: “If they are fakes, maybe we can resell them to another sucker.”
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19 minutes – a haiku
I just spent 19 / minutes looking for a prompt / and ended up here
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#SOCS – “On your marks, get set, BAKE!”
“But Ben, you’ve had your starter kit since October 27. Why no bread yet?”
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On Why I Can’t “Church” Right Now
Yesterday I wrote about “rough drafts” – pieces and parts of articles in my inbox that are so emotionally raw to me and likely hurtful to people I love that I fear putting them out into the world.
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Rough Drafts
I’m not talking, “This could probably use some editing before it goes live” rough…
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777 and counting…
Writing heals me. Writing gets my brain moving in the right direction. I FEEL BETTER when I write.
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The Hatred Never Went Away
The hatred never went away / Just pushed into a fertile soil / Now, weedy thick, it springs to day / With words of shame, our Pride to spoil
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the cost of life seemed rarely worth the price
The Cost of Life seemed rarely Worth the Price / And as I Paid it seemed quite Poorly Spent / Now, Looking Back, would gladly Tender Twice
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Poetic License
But I learned – the very hard way – that if you never consider yourself, eventually you have nothing left with which to care for anyone else.
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xenophobes yawp zealously.
always, boldly choose diversity
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keyless entry?
With this utensil? Ne’er get far…
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Artichoked
“Keep Choking Hazards From Mouth”
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“You therefore must be perfect” just like God
“You therefore must be perfect” just like God / It’s there in letters red and hot as blood
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May Our Memories Be a Blessing
Poems are made by fools like me, / But God made the fools.
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