Life is…
Life is blatherskite
cheap talk, nonsense dealt as truth
no substance, all lies.
Life is ephemeral
carelessly left by nostrum
proscribed by a quack.
Life is addictive
struggle with rigor mortis
drugs terminated.
Life’s episodic
notifications rule days
tap minutes away.
Life is decisions
concave glass cracked, lipstick smudged
camera snaps affair
Life’s work ten hours
broken boiler icy show’r
empty apartment.
Life is traffic stopped
threat of job loss if you’re late
white knuckle commute.
Life is promotion
dangled from puppeteer’s strings
no raise just more stress.
Life is broken dreams
words carved on hearts–no one reads
in quiet that bleeds.
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for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie: Wordle #102 “March 21, 2016”
This packs a punch! The human condition laid bare, excellent wordling
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Thank you! Looking forward to your next wordle 🙂
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Ah, the negatives we run into as we survive this world, oft times alone. Your pen is brilliant, Melinda, and you capture so clearly, the dark side of the human endeavour. Your senryu are superb, truly. Sending warm hugs to you, my friend, in hopes those icy showers don’t take their toll 🙂
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Thank you, I wimped out on the cold shower and drove out to my parents’ to bum a shower. The boiler is fixed now thankfully.
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You are welcome! I take cold showers regularly, even though the hot water tank works fine 🙂 Glad to hear you are fixed up 🙂
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Wow wow wow! Hard to choose a fave line, though I rather like “life’s episodic”–it often feels like a TV serial 🙂
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You hit this poem right in the tooth! I love it! I love it a lot!
Life is promotion
dangled from puppeteer’s strings
no raise just more stress.
Yes, life is a product that life itself promotes that brings nothing but difficulties along the way.
Excellent poem. 🙂
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Thank you! I like that about life being a product!
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I’m glad you like that. You nailed this poem good. 🙂
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Thank you! I just captured the thoughts running around my head and slapped them onto a post 🙂
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Nice. You are an amazing writer. 🙂 Respects to you. 🙂
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Phew! This is a painful read. Sometimes, life sucks the breath out of us.
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Yes it does and then there are times it gives you a fresh breath.
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Sigh, yes, c’est la vie. Bea-u-ti-ful words. ❤
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Thank you! Just glad there is hot water again! Can’t do much about my commute.
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Yes… Commute is never fun. Hope you’ve had a great Tuesday!
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It was great because we collabed!
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Oh yeah!!
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😀 and we will collab today too! (and my meeting was cancelled, so a great day it will be!)
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*Jumping up and down 😀
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yes so i am available all day 🙂
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YAYYY!
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😀
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Oh, so good. Love these series of yours, Mel. You do them so well 🙂
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Hearing that from the master of this form (you) that means a lot. Thank you!
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Haha, I just snorted coffee out my nose! Master?! You’re hilarious 😉
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I write only truth 😉
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😀
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Searing right through to the guts of the dark side of life! Excellent!
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Thank you 🙂 I lived a couple of those yesterday
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That’s not fun! It’s been kind of like that for me for a number of months. Thank God for the bright spots! You’re welcome!
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😀 yes thank God for the bright spots
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OH. Wow, Mel. This poem speaks a lot a lot a lot of truths!!!
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Thanks Rosema, some of them describe parts of my day yesterday.
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true! such is life!
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yes it is
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