#TheRiffOffGame
"Get all the brie
From the pantry"
Carol said,

"And lay it all out
Nicely there about"
Her typical Sunday spread.

She, a mountain
Of a woman
No man could cross

And I her pupil
No mentor her equal
She was a tempest tossed

Firestorm
Warm
I miss her still.

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September 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
April 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Slight nod to inspiration from Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles".

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April 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Read left three, then right two. The follow up line is "Forever will be..."

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April 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Garden of memories
Sharpen your shears
Peonies bloom
For a number of years.

I am the marigold
You the angel’s tears
I will grow anywhere
You may cut away

My fears

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Inside her mind
reside many lives
bees of a hive

he is /
a tiny little bee
buzzing about
I I l

\ xe too
never forgotten
xyr stabby stinger
queen dancer
I I I

Pollinating wallflowers
within her hemispheres
garden of memories

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In artifice
His words devised
New methods and lies
To tear her reality apart
Thread by thread
And put his own
Inside her head.
Little did he know
His world was no
Larger than a pebble
Inside her mind

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April 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I think it wants two more stanzas in the middle, it feels rushed. But I'm tired so this is the best I have right now.

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April 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
In artifice
His words devised
New methods and lies
To tear her reality apart
Thread by thread
And put his own
Inside her head.
Little did he know
His world was no
Larger than a pebble
Inside her mind

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Dinner is almost ready
flirting with flitting
olfactory sensations
fittingly flutter into hunger
the candlelight dripping
red wax in a puddled mess
a makers mark of puzzle pieces
dousing tech bros in A1
ground machinery beetles
in artifice

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April 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Perfect storm rises
Lightning cracks under my skin
Depression rolls in

Ash clouds towering
Rain drenched horizons stretching
Within and without

My clouded vision,
No sight beyond the torrent,
I am lost in the storm.

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A win against the odds
Our mere existence
Prokaryotes
Into walking, talking, humans
Ingenious
Fire, currency, society
A perfect storm

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Taking back our reins
Racer running fast off course
Hooves kicking up dirt

Throughbred daring
The wind against its mane, a win
A win against the odds.

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April 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Salvation is found within
Recognizing the limitations
Of external validation

We will only ever be
As beautiful as what we can
Call ourselves in mirrors

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Here's the duo I promised. I hope I don't lose half my followers overnight for essentially poetically summarizing the gnostic gospels the night before Easter (Do they still behead heretics? Asking for a friend). So it goes. I suppose start with whichever end line you like better?

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April 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
April 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
She is lost in the storm
Crackling thunder
Pulling her far under

Sky, a relentless ocean
Bombarding waves
Drowning in the indigo

Felt first, then seen, afar
Extended hand
Waving from study land

Come, my friend, to safety
A cuppa herbal tea
Welcoming your bravery

#poetry #TheRiffOffGame
Perfect storm rises
Lightning cracks under my skin
Depression rolls in

Ash clouds towering
Rain drenched horizons stretching
Within and without

My clouded vision,
No sight beyond the torrent,
I am lost in the storm.

#poem, #poetry, #TheRiffOffGame, #storm, #haiku, #depression
A win against the odds
Our mere existence
Prokaryotes
Into walking, talking, humans
Ingenious
Fire, currency, society
A perfect storm

#poetry #riffoff
April 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A little awkward wording. I wanted to pack it with more examples of debate fallacies but I lost my resin of thought. Anyway, enjoy!

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April 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Dinner is almost ready
flirting with flitting
olfactory sensations
fittingly flutter into hunger
the candlelight dripping
red wax in a puddled mess
a makers mark of puzzle pieces
dousing tech bros in A1
ground machinery beetles
in artifice

#poetry #TheRiffOffGame
April 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Salvation is found within
Recognizing the limitations
Of external validation

We will only ever be
As beautiful as what we can
Call ourselves in mirrors

#poetry #TheRiffOffGame
April 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
April 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As more lined up to
The sound of applause

Confused as they were
For what was the show?

Before they could ask,
She sang the ABCs

Except not in order
Rather perplexing

Determining she had
Gone and lost it

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I think it wants two more stanzas in the middle, it feels rushed. But I'm tired so this is the best I have right now.

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April 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Welcoming your bravery
Sweet voodoo child
To the beauty and the pain

Life holds all the mystery
Between the palms
of small hands

A face yet to touch melancholy
Anger, fear, or joy.
Silence is my vigil and

Vigilance is the way.

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She is lost in the storm
Crackling thunder
Pulling her far under

Sky, a relentless ocean
Bombarding waves
Drowning in the indigo

Felt first, then seen, afar
Extended hand
Waving from study land

Come, my friend, to safety
A cuppa herbal tea
Welcoming your bravery

#poetry #TheRiffOffGame
Perfect storm rises
Lightning cracks under my skin
Depression rolls in

Ash clouds towering
Rain drenched horizons stretching
Within and without

My clouded vision,
No sight beyond the torrent,
I am lost in the storm.

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April 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Forever will be always
Forever we'll be, always
For, ever we'll be, all ways

For we will ever be, always
We will always be forever
Will always be forever, we?

Always be forever, we will
Be forever we, will always
Forever we, will always be

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Read left three, then right two. The follow up line is "Forever will be..."

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April 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This one ended up giving off proverb vibes so I leaned into that.

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April 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Vigilance is the way
Vigilantism is what
I actually meant to say

Get the forks and plates
We're eating good today
Quickly before they
Try to run away

Bait them with stocks
Even their yachts
Together they'll flock
Right into our maws

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Welcoming your bravery
Sweet voodoo child
To the beauty and the pain

Life holds all the mystery
Between the palms
of small hands

A face yet to touch melancholy
Anger, fear, or joy.
Silence is my vigil and

Vigilance is the way.

#poem, #poetry, #TheRiffOffGame
She is lost in the storm
Crackling thunder
Pulling her far under

Sky, a relentless ocean
Bombarding waves
Drowning in the indigo

Felt first, then seen, afar
Extended hand
Waving from study land

Come, my friend, to safety
A cuppa herbal tea
Welcoming your bravery

#poetry #TheRiffOffGame
April 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Our democracy
demolition of the autocracy
supposing aspirational
if perhaps just a bit far fetched
cravings from this oligarchy
lest they poison us with
stomach smallpox laced oxy
wouldn't be the first time
historically attacked
by a fictional hysteria

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(I'm tired and had no idea what I was doing with this one.... So here it is anyway! 😅)

Gone and lost it
Rights ripened then rotted,
Tossed into the garbage pit.
Seram wrap what's leftover
As SAVE has shit
In the kitchen of
our democracy.

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As more lined up to
The sound of applause

Confused as they were
For what was the show?

Before they could ask,
She sang the ABCs

Except not in order
Rather perplexing

Determining she had
Gone and lost it

#poetry #TheRiffOffGame
April 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
(I'm tired and had no idea what I was doing with this one.... So here it is anyway! 😅)

Gone and lost it
Rights ripened then rotted,
Tossed into the garbage pit.
Seram wrap what's leftover
As SAVE has shit
In the kitchen of
our democracy.

#TheRiffOffGame, #SAVE, #politicalpoetry, #poem, #poetry
As more lined up to
The sound of applause

Confused as they were
For what was the show?

Before they could ask,
She sang the ABCs

Except not in order
Rather perplexing

Determining she had
Gone and lost it

#poetry #TheRiffOffGame
I think it wants two more stanzas in the middle, it feels rushed. But I'm tired so this is the best I have right now.

#poem, #poetry, #TheRiffOffGame
April 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
April 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Well thank you. I promise not to overuse it in #TheRiffOffGame at least. Just when it serves a purpose
April 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM