Five-Seven-Five
Be Here Now
Five stars perfectly
Aligned universally
Yet I just wonder
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ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons)
~ American feminist living in Sweden ~ SHE/Her
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ROCK's Unofficial Challenge
Well hello. You've come this far which is a very good start. You're a poet and you know it, so show it. RULES - as you know Rock hates rules and finds life challenging enough without more of them but we gots to set up some guidelines. Yes, guidelines sounds so much better.
By ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons)6 days ago in Poets
I wanted to title this something different, but worried that my chosen title might cause problems entering the United States in the future so this is the new title. It's the greatest title. No one has ever written a title better than this. (All titles unrelated to content).
Let me be honest. I am finding this difficult. Now, I like a challenge, a stretch, a bit of an obstacle course. “Write about the decline of the British Empire in the form of a narrative poem in which your protagonist is an artichoke” I read, and flex my fingers. “Write a haiku to evoke the sensation of sibilance using only the first half of the alphabet.” “Well”, I think to myself, “this should be fun.” But “write about a system that isn’t working”? A system that isn’t working? Now? In 2026? ONE system? My favourite system that isn’t working? The sexiest system that isn’t working? The one giving me the most angst day to day? The one giving me the most existential dread? I am, as I say, finding this difficult. I will own that I have contemplated writing a thousand words on why the steady “all on” setting on my fairy lights is the EIGHTH of seven options which must be sequentially activated to get there, because that is a system that some fool came up with and it definitely doesn’t work, and now who is paying the price, eh? But how can I write about my fairy lights when…. When…. When….
By Hannah Moore6 days ago in Humans
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And I wonder what you wonder hehehe. Loved this!
one can only wonder what happens when the stars align.. according to some sources this also heralded ww1... the synchronous cyclical occurences of the pandemic, economic crises and stars does give one reason to pause. Your haiku harnessed this idea ! nice work