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Shassy’s Walkabout, Life, Love, Freedom, Mental Health

Category: poetry

  • Flubbed the parameters of MMPB this week, but here it is anyway. 24 Mar 23

    I have a bad habit of reading what the prompt word is, and sometimes pondering, then seeing if I come up with something. Only thing I forget to do sometimes, is read what kind of week it is. 🙄 So I just took the prompt word, “Daydream” and starting writing. Guess what? It didn’t fit,…

  • cirrus clouds

    Move Me Poetry Battle Submission 17 Mar 23

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  • Move Me Poetry Battle submission 10 March 23

    This week we were to write an ekphrastik piece using this image. I’ll have to admit I needed to look up the word ekphrastik.. I write poetry, but it’s all in a willy nilly form…my brain doesn’t work well around forms, or “ways” to write poetry, and when I’ve tried to sit down and do…

  • woman looking at sea while sitting on beach

    Move Me Poetry Battle submission, 3 Mar 23

    Move Me Poetry Battle Submission 3 Mar 23

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  • Move Me Poetry Battle submission, 18 Feb 23

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  • Now I lay

    Now I lay “Under the night sky, the wind is chill. I’ve turned this jalopy and bent her to my will. But she holds me safely, with not a budge to her name. Even though I’ve stripped her all the same. She’ll never complain, and basks with delight. For the adventures await, and she shows…

  • Heart

    Remembering the soft flutters of her heart when she saw you. Childlike giddiness, and sweet blushing cheek. Life was innocent, sweet, unfurrowed and soft blue. Like the skies above, with whimsical clouds, so meek. They had love and tenderness, Even if just for a while. When you arrived emotion would swoon, and she would glow…

  • person holding a green plant

    Move Me Poetry Battle 5 Feb 23

    Move me poetry battle 5 Feb 23 I did not submit this poem to the battle, but I got the prompt from it. It wouldn’t have fallen within the parameters anyway… but that’s ok. Sometimes I have to write when I feel inspired, and this week I kept ruminating on the prompt word, and decided…

  • Luscious

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