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Health scientist, MA MSc, artist, writer, poet, baker. Progressive. Vegan, NAUI diver. Care about justice, kindness, connection, animals. Goals: keep my sense of humor, make US a democratic republic again. Mayflower descendant. Art, poems copyrights.NoDM
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Sticks and stones may break bones but they heal stronger than before. Cutting words strike at nerves reaching deep into the core. Malignant words infiltrate, to create a magnetic sore. So powerful, words etch into hearts, remembered evermore.
#poetry #malignant #prompt #vss365
I redo childhood with the mind of an adult, repairing old wounds.
#haikufeels #prompt #redo #haiku #micropoetry
Cruel events puncture our safe veil of illusions, yet we must go on.
#haikufeels #puncture #haiku #emotery #vss365
Ever hopeful, with her buoyant, #jovial, #nature, she laughed at the clown on stage, and the hate from the corrupt coup. Trusting Sufi wisdom, "This too shall pass", she continued making soup for everyone, gifting fresh baked bread, and fermenting her famous Kvass.
#poetry #prompt #vss365
die in the womb a crime, die in a school a statistic, why am I crying, children are dying, bullets, and empty stomachs, heartache, and grief, while hypocrites rule, so many hearts still in disbelief.
#poetry #resist #vss365 #discover