In a world full of hate, you only have what you can take.
Dancing with the pretenders, it leaves a sour taste.
They’re squelching my fire with the anger and the lies,
And I’m a smoldering ruin — a lone wolf howling at the moon. Continue reading “Free Verse – Wrath – SD”
You drive like that, red pickup,
Pushing until someone lets you in
But it’s bad luck to cut off a bus
A rolling receptacle of good or bad will Continue reading “Free Verse – Wrath – Marcy Erb”
An increasingly long time ago,
A commercial that ran
On the television of my childhood –
Of food being sloughed off china
Plates into garbage cans –
Warned us that 20 percent of the
World starved while 20 ate like
Kings. Continue reading “Free Verse – Sloth – Marcy Erb”
I don’t have the energy,
The calories it takes
To keep my fire alight,
To roll with the fakeness. Continue reading “Free Verse – Sloth – SD”
The Bottom
It’s so tempting
To stay sleeping,
Dreaming, only breathing,
Barely guilty of living, succumbing
To the apathy and fear of failing. Continue reading “Sloth – Free Verse – JG”
This world is caving in, I don’t think I’ll last
Cretins surround me, trying to throw me off the path
And you’re no help, I don’t know what to think
When you tease and you pry, seducing me to sink Continue reading “Free Verse – Envy – SD”
I remember reading
Of Dante’s blinded –
The envious sinners
with eyes sewn shut. Continue reading “Free Verse – Envy – JG”
I know you.
I know you like the earth
Knows geology: Constantly
Happening but we can’t
Quite Name it. Continue reading “Free Verse – Envy – Marcy Erb”
We are now reaching sin number four in our seven-part, seven-week poetry series featuring the Seven Deadly Sins! We also had two guest submissions for the first time, which is always exciting. Three of the poems spoke directly about food, with one other focusing on the material side of gluttony. Continue reading “July 8 Theme: The Color of Jealousy?”
Dickens was truly concerned
About your health and well-being –
How prescient of him! Continue reading “Free Verse – Gluttony – Marcy Erb”
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