Writing Every Day in 2020 (A Personal Challenge)

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Control
Poem
66 Words
Feb 6th

Whispering to the winds
Words of power
My tongue tastes rain
Bittersweet

Too much control
Too little consequence
Endless loop of up and down
The tug of war, of life

The oceans begin to simmer
Emotions have reached boiling point
A cataclysm of the soul
Put me back together

Too much control
For one puny mortal
Press the button now and
Let's see where this goes

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The Forest
Poem
109 words
Feb 7th

The forest of my mind is thick with overgrowth
I need to clear some of this shrubbery
Make paths so that I don't get lost
So my feet aren't embedded with thorns

I can hear the birds chirping a morning song
The beasts running free, nature's call
The river running quietly, soothing and calm
Clear my way so I can see them again

The forest of my soul in it's discordant state
Mending itself to become whole
Trusting the mind to do it's job
So harmony between the two can be had|

The forest, the forest,
It grows and grows
A balance must be struck
To keep everything right

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So I literally wrote this in I'd say under two minutes, all in one go, and I'm actually surprised how well it turned out for such a quick write!

Early Bird
Poem
91 words
Feb 8th

Early bird gets the worm
The worms digging a bit deeper
Hawks fly like rocket ships
Before they come back to earth

A missile in flight, the bird attacks
The worm is stuck, theres no turning back
It slips and slides, the hawk dives
With a slashing beak, the worm divides

Early bird gets the worm
Early bird is in flight
Early bird, it's still night
Nightcrawlers are in sight

The wet ground is a breeding ground
For delicious tasting worms
Sliding down the early birds throat
Enjoying all it's squirms

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Fast Forward
Poem
85 words
Feb 9th

Time is moving slowly
Yet quick at the same time
In the moment it's a snail's pace
In a wider perspective it's a race

Fast forward a couple years
Has it really been that long?
Where did the time go?
Where did the time go?

Gotta live in the moment
But keep the future in sight
Big plans for a big future
All while trying to soak it all in

Absorb the moments
Don't miss out
Or soon you'll find yourself
Stuck on fast forward

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Eternal Fire
Poem
70 words
Feb 10th

Eternal fire roars through the night
Ripping through the forest
A never ending cycle of wind and flames
Yet nothing ever ends up the same

It smothers, it burns, it takes over
And all the wildlife flees
It is deaf and does not respond
To your begging or your pleas

Eternal fire rips through the night
Charring everything in sight
Never will it be put out
Eternal fire forever more

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Went for one of the ol' 3 sets of 3 lines and really like this one. A lot.

Cut
Poem
49 words
Feb 11th

Cutting through the air
Wind slices, hail rips
Weather does its worst

Slicing through the flesh
Is the job a blade does best
At it's owners behest

Cut for one and cut for all
A tavern turned upside by a brawl
And with it a cut of the profits

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Tragic Situation
Poem
82 words
Feb 12th

When you're up and down
Can't stand on solid ground
The world is shaking all around
It's a tragic situation

If the sun isn't shining
Every word you speak is whining
When it's a deep deep hole your mining
It's a tragic situation

If the water's too deep
And the air you can't keep
If the cliff is too steep
It's a tragic situation

If life is all grand
Someone's holding your hand
A soft pillow to land
It's a magic situation

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Woops thought I posted this

Thirteen
Poem
59 words
Feb 13th

Thirteen the number of
Fear and of superstition
In apartment buildings
You'll find a twelfth
And a fourteenth floor
But 13? It is no more
No thirteen is bad luck
You see that's between
You and me, in the elevator
The power's down now and
We've got nowhere to be
The lights down low and
We're just playing thirteen

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Just a fun little piece playing around with the look of the actual words and stuff. The way I have it in my doc doesn't show up accurately on here but just gonna leave it cause its late.

Crawling
Poem
41 words
Feb 14th

craw
ling
like the pain in my
intest
ines

on the floor from
point A
to B
no prior planning

riding the
STORM
as it rocks me
Not too gently

craw
ling
like an army of ants
lining up to vote

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Liquid
Poem
29 words
Feb 15th

Liquid
Emotions
Like teardrops on Saturn
Questioned

Water
Dripping
Like indoor rain
Entitled

Footsteps
In the hallway
Outside the river
Flowing

Liquid
Frozen
Solid is as solid does
Shattered

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Open Space
Poem
109 words
Feb 16th

Stars stretch across the solitude
Expansive reaches just out of reach
Soaring in silence, superior
A lot of time to think out here

Light licks the tin of my space can
I'm floating in open space
The light trickles in, who knows where its been
I just know its shining in my face

Following footsteps of spacial explorers
Wandering endlessly in the same corridor
Open space all over the place
No one out here but me and the stars

Whispering wondrously when we make contact
I'll ask all the questions after the fact
They speak in strange tongues, now their climbing the rungs
Floating out here in open space

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Coins
Poem
42 words
Feb 17th

Coins slip through
Fingers and wallets
Like they sprouted wings
And began to fly

Fly my metal discs of value
You will purchase untold happiness
Or rust your days out in a fountain
Whatever suits your desires

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Clocks
Poem
99 words
Feb 18th

Clocks ticking the time away
Like eternal spaceships cloaked in grey
Fortitude that will not stay, another day
A velocity we just cannot aspire too

Gears grinding gratuitously, graciously
Gifting a framework of sensibilities
Laid out across a series of numbers
That held together the fabric of time

Woven between one and the next
Clocks ticking like pounding rain
On a tin roof, incessant and unending
Drip, drip, drop, drop, it's all the same

Set your alarms and say hello to the
Circus clown who runs the fire
Department store sale fifty percent off
Selling a bunch of clocks

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Haven't slept in quite some time so I forgot some things. One of them being to post the other day's poem here.

Sizzle
Poem
57 words
Feb 19th

Hot! The earth screams as it
Cooks eggs on demand asphalt breakfast
Stones in your grits and tires in your teeth
Hot! The earth screams as it sizzles

Sizzles like a pan frying crackle, crackle,
Pop, pop, pop, pop, earth grease spitting
Through the air as it sizzles on city fumes
Factory smoked bacon as a side

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Every Day
Poem
72 words
Feb 20th

Hello
Welcome to the world
Of unending questions and
Pondering endless situations
That you'll never find yourself in
And yet maybe, what if?
You ask yourself
Every day
And every day
You come to the same conclusion
“Yes”
It's such a boring answer
But it's the truth
And in a world of half truths and two times the lies
A truth is a welcome sight for
Sore eyes that sympathize too often

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Careless
Poem
81 words
Feb 21st

Time is all we have
But it can never mend
Words thrown through the air
Striking bodies everywhere

You can feel it in the air
An electric pulsing everywhere
The music is just neverending
When I'm careless with you

Time has no more meaning
Inside my soul is screaming
My heart torn asunder
Struck by careless thunder

Careless when I fell for you
Tripping up by my own two shoes
Falling then and falling now
Careless gets you on the ground

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Snarl
Poem
103 words
Feb 22nd

The rumbling coming from your throat
Animalistic as you try not to choke
A beast caged within ready to burst
Surfacing to give you it's worst

Snarl, shattering the quiet dawn
The atmosphere quaking, earth is shaking
Snarl, no longer your simple pawn
The rains are coming, the clouds are humming

Rip through the trees, fire, smoke
Why fix it if it just ain't broke?
Why smile when I can snarl
Teeth bared ready to brawl

Following desires from within
Caged by the bars of sins
Swimming in circles like a shark with no fins
Let loose a snarl and let it begin

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Really happy with this one, was very in the moment but felt very inspired.

Break You Down
Poem
96 words
Feb 23rd

I want to break you down like
A literary reviewer
A restaurant critic
Like Ebert and Roeper

Analyze the ley lines of your eyes
Cross the dots and make the
Map make sense to someone who
Can't read maps, not even a bit

I want to break you down like
It's 1977 and Night Fever is
All the rage and you can't go a day
Without a little Bee Gees in your life

Listen to the rhythm of your heart and
Hear it's song more clearly because
I was never really good at
Deciphering music anyways

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Fields
Poem
52 words
Feb 24th

Fields of snow
White and glistening
A familiar crunch
Is what I'm listening

Fields of dreams
Memorial dirt
It's in your eyes
It sure does hurt

Field of vision
Field of view
Who is what
And what is true

Storm the field
And anchors away
The press will have
A field day

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Yellow Flowers
Poem
52 words
Feb 25th

Yellow flowers grow in the grass
Like little suns growing in the dirt
A smile across a plant face
The weather's nice enough for it

Yellow flowers amongst the red and blue
The purples, the greys, the oranges too
Yellow flowers all around
Making for beautiful ground