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OfIceAndSand
Loves writing syllabic-based pieces and stories that invoke empathy
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with a dash of salt~
write a poem with ONLY TWO SENTENCES~ Good Luck my little hellhhounds~
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OfIceAndSand in Poetry & Free Verse
• 11 reads

Balloons

Hold

Your

Obsessions

Like a

Balloon

with its string in

Your hands.

Watch

Your balloon, that

Nothing needles it--

While

Your

Hot-air balloon

Deflates.

Note: This poem is inspired by my fight with a couple obsessions and having acknowledged that protecting my obsessions at all costs really lets down the rest of my life :( :)

Also, if you like this poem, you may like my poem, "Once Birthed, Eternal"

Have a good day!

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OfIceAndSand in Flash Fiction
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The Bridge

You told me to hold the railing

But it was wet

My hands were cold

I didn't want to

So, you had us hold hands

It was firm

It was hated

I didn't want you

Then, I pushed you into

Where it is wet

Where it is cold

I am deaf to you

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Sound or Shape?
I once heard it opined that "Elbow" is The most Beautiful word in the English language, not for what it is in object reference, but for how it is perceived in quality, Linguistically. Please tell me your word preference, and why @kNoTeS
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OfIceAndSand in Words
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Slop-Tot

The children's book "Still More Stories From Grandma's Attic" by Arleta Richardson features the word, "Slop-tot''.

It means, a child prone to sloppiness.

And, it's an actually spirit-lifting word of self-deprecation when it hurts to call yourself stupid:

POV: you're in the kitchen doing dishes, and you knock over the soap dispenser; soap all over the kitchen towel and stained cabinets. You're so mad! Then, you say to yourself, "I'm being a slop-tot; stop being a slop-tot.'' While you're banging things around, "Slop-tot-Slop-tot-Slop-tot" rounds through your head; you're surprised to find yourself fighting not to smile. Then you smile. Slop-tot is irresistible.

(Slop-tot may nowadays have a different meaning than it did in the time period of the book, though I've not found any evidence of such in my cursory internet search :)

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What is the job of a poet?
Any format.
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OfIceAndSand
• 6 reads

Task of a Poet IS

To make

You

Say

That's my pain...

That's my joy...

That I don't understand now, but I hope/fear I will

And that's someone coping with it all

So

I can too

(If you like this poem, you may like my poem "Once Birthed, Eternal")

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To Whom it May Concern...
Write a letter to whom it may concern, but please begin with the line, "Dear Reader, I wish I could tell you that you're going to survive this." Interpret this as you will - maybe it's a letter telling of the horrific circumstances the reader has found themselves in that the writer has experienced before them, or maybe a somber and dramatic letter of understanding concerning one's mental health. Whatever you can come up with!
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OfIceAndSand
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You Incorrigible Reader

Dear Reader, I wish I could tell you that you're going to survive this.

For you, Reader, I forgo using my last wish to provide for my hungry family of Fannie and sixteen children, to get a job better than at the mines, and to prolong the life of my aging mother. Not to mention, freeing myself from...this nightmarish lamp....

This screen that you are reading is scored with the curse of the genie Bueligun, condemning all Readers to his lamp. I've disabled that curse, but my own hand writing this is none to steady...Bueligun is coming back, he says, to feast--

And now...now how do you feel about your curiosity, you incorrigible Reader you, whose inevitable sight of this screen has condemned me to die!!

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What's Hope?
Write a poem to describe hope. What is it like. What does it mean.
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OfIceAndSand
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Hope Is Saying

Hope

Is

Saying

All right

I can dash my past plans

On the unfamiliar road ahead of me

As

Life's about

Expansive joy and laughter

On more roads than one

One road only is the most direct path

Though, where are we arriving but death

Unfamiliar roads are time-giving detours

But that shouldn't keep you from

Taking unfamiliar roads at a run

(If you like this poem, you may like my haikus in "Once Birthed, Eternal")

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OfIceAndSand in Poetry & Free Verse
• 4 reads

Parody of “Little Miss Muffet” Nursery Rhyme

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a bucket

Eating some birds in soufflé

Along came a tiger

Who sat down beside her

So she gave it a buffet

And decided to stuff it

And put it on her wall for display.

(I've published this on at least one other website, which does not have exclusive rights over this piece)

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OfIceAndSand in Philosophy
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I Say

People say that bad things happen at midnight.

I say, if you're awake at midnight, then bad things have already happened.

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OfIceAndSand in Poetry & Free Verse
• 9 reads

Regret

Someone is just discovering what you left behind

And you know you hadn't done what you could with what you had.

It's like, you're ahead of them in a dinghy

While they're in a speedboat

They'll catch up fast

And then, you can't help but wonder if sea monsters are real

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Haiku for Your Troubles, Haiku for Rebirth
Write about a defining moment in your life My story in a haiku: Born but just barely Forced to fight from dawn of light Enough to live on
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OfIceAndSand in Haiku
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Monsoons and Addictions

To be not waste land

Of ''can't stop''s, I sweat monsoons

I drown anchored thoughts

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