#poets_for_poets

[redhotrabbit]

City Slicker

This Concrete Jungle traffic lights wink so slyly with a dapper flair shining upon buildings clad in such dashing urbane style Jaideep ,,,,is in charge of this week’s poetry for David’s weekly prompt.

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[redhotrabbit]

Another Setting

I so often enjoy going into the room with the Dimmed Lights knowing that too much glare can be painful there I can quietly sit and step out of the mainstream for a while

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[redhotrabbit]

Mountain People

The Dominant tribe lived on a mountaintop overlooking all the others in the nearby valley ‘we have conquered the mountain,’ they announced aloud for one and all to hear, ‘so we are at last superior to one and all’ the people in the valley quietly grew their crops and went about their daily lives

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[redhotrabbit]

Life In the Great Society

The cult leaders teach their followers to forget that certain groups of people are really people each day someone is kidnapped and given a number with which his name will be forever replaced it is a world of masculine women and feminine men where truth and falsehood change places and Torture is called freedom of choice, pride, and alternative lifestyle students are never allowed to read…

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[redhotrabbit]

The Dark Side Of Yesterday

I see them around often lately yesterday’s used up old hippie has beens clad in their long Faded ‘all we are saying is give Peace a chance’ sweatshirts my ears hear the Drumming on a generations old song to which my imagination has always Clung many of these people have Walked along these same roads forever they Hunt for some Thick skinned creature braving both Floods and droughts day and…

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[redhotrabbit]

The Piano Man

I asked my friend the pianist to play for me a song that reminds me of the sweet love of my life she was my true love long ago and I always see her plain as day whenever I hear the part where hearts are broken daily I still wear the cambric shirt she knit me daydreaming for a moment

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[redhotrabbit]

Having A Good Time

I have my transparent Coffee pot pitch black water from a sea of joy as I sit by this quiet riverside or might it be an ocean if there is enough while I practice a favorite guitar Scale listening to the ‘Rubber Soul’ album keeping track of observations on my Sticky Tabs Marla’s Challenge For January

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[redhotrabbit]

No One Cares

I am here in my cone of silence looking outward toward the town square measuring my tea in daily spoonsful can you see the Apathy in my face a caterpillar climbs into a rabbit hole and I barely notice it

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