Writers on the Web by Melissa Hougard
Melissa Hougard – contest prompt ‘Writers on the Web’ to follow Jim Morrison’s rhythm in ‘Riders on the Storm’ Writers
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Author: Melissa Hougard
Black Phoebe – The Beauty of a Fleeting Moment
Black Phoebe… Perched upon a low limb He bows, ruffling his feathers Dapper little gentleman Poised in dress, to impress
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The Quiet of an Ordinary Saturday
An ordinary Saturday… It’s Saturday, and all is quiet perhaps everyone is at the beach escaping this unseasonable heat There’s
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Accepting Love – Embracing its Countenance
Accepting Love… That I might accept love, embrace its countenance, without reservation to mark my final days before the greeting
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The Biggest Little Things – Stay-at-Home Mothers
Stay-at-Home Mothers… I’ve been irrefutably detained raising little worries dipped in primary colors of hope pressing down my own needs-
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Gathering Stones – Creating Alternate Paths
Gathering Stones … She’s gathering stones Mother Nature’s scattered bones lining her path, to somewhere unknown She crawls along on
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Guardians Held in Quiet Reverence
Guardians Held in Quiet Reverence … A quiet reverence… Held in reverence guardians look through owl’s eyes soft and silent
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Once Upon Time – Technology and Plato’s Allegory
Technology, contemplating Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’… Once we met per chance, in the open breeze trailing winds
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Silent Judgement-To All the Words Unsaid
Silent Judgement… To all the words, unsaid held tight beneath your tongue I hear them ‘Tis in your eyes smiling
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Something About Sunday
Sunday… There’s something about Sunday a peaceful feeling in the air… lackadaisical the sky holds a certain kind of blue…
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Jack-O-Lantern, A Carving for the Worthy Saints
Jack-O-Lantern O ‘Stingy Jack’ O Lantern to create… I fall into a plethora of color… plump and plentiful the
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Flying High, The Geography of an Epiphany
Flying high with my thoughts… I’m flying high, above it all one life, of so many held in the belly
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Music Moves to Open a Soul
Music moves, to touch the soul… ‘Tis the music that moves to open a soul… Vibrations, stirring the dance
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New Life Uncurling
New life, uncurling… New life, uncurling petals peeking through… gazing first upon a sleepy moon. The softer light, yawning
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My Grandmother, She Had a Way
Grandmother, in loving memory… My Grandmother, she had a way- beautiful ’til her dying day. She used to say, she’d
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The Political Mayhem of Truths Forsaken
Political Mayhem… It’s 1:00 AM, my eyes are full… political mayhem, truths forsaken. It’s time for meaningful reform.
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Through the Weave
I climb through the weave of my life, contemplating the complexities of my purpose, knowing deep down, I
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The Poetry Skeptic
For the poetry skeptic… I hear the click of your tongue a poem, you say… another one?
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Dream Life’s Pantomime
Life’s Pantomime The beauty of life’s quest departs… when the light of a
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Wake for Humanity
Humanity look what we have become… lost in our screens devoid of life’s gentler dreams. “Active shooters” “Fluid scenes”
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Anxiety Whispers
Anxiety Whispers Shapeless whispers heckling anxiety’s intrusion… the unwelcome spider crawling behind.
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Quiet Conversations
The silence grew between us… heads bowed in screens and hybrid magazines. Conversations on the edge of things
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I Cast My Vote
There is no rhyme to this lack of reason… this political treason America…’land of the free’. I
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