Destination Dreams
Brushed by death today
Twice.
Metal boxes speeding
Too fast, too near me
Driven on by the wrong thoughts
Or expensive wanderings
In response to COLLEEN’S WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 100, “POET’S CHOICE OF WORDS”
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I couldn’t think of two words to start with – harder than doing an actual poem! I also ran out of time so this is a complete cheat – I am using an old one,
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Egg and bacon sandwich
Dripping yolk and ketchup
Steaming tea from on old tin boiler
Condensation frosting the windows
Empty streets, lit by sulphur orange
Solace
In response to my daily prompt Bacon
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Feign ambition
Feign happiness
Feign expertise
Until the day
It all comes true
Until one day
The realisation
That day
Will never come
In response to my daily prompt Feign
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Showed us the nightmare vision of socialism gone to extremes
It didn’t come to pass.
Instead – we welcomed in something far more insidious.
Capitalism unmarked.
Welcome to
Welcome to the rebellion
Welcome to The Secret
Gone
From me
Innocence
But always close
Always in my heart that innocence lost
Originally published in A Spring of Dreams
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