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in 15 words, describe a moment or activity you've shared with someone which makes you love that someone even more.
Cover image for post What I Needed, by starryEyes
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What I Needed

Movie date to see Inside Out.

Holding my hand, said,

"It's okay to feel sad."

Challenge
Write a true micro-poem ... see specific details ... this is a think-piece.
According to Wikipedia, the more recent popularity of "micro-poetry" to describe poems of 140 characters in length or shorter appears to stem from a separate coinage, as a portmanteau of "microblogging" and "poetry". Hence this is the challenge, counting spaces, commas, periods and letters. Write a micro-poem no longer than 140 characters. (This does not include the title). It should not be any longer than 30 words maximum (though I have allowed for two additional words if needed.) but it should fall within the range of no more than 140 characters. It can be on any topic/subject. (I will be counting and spaces count as a character). Don’t forget to tag me in the comment section … @Danceinsilence.
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starryEyes in Micropoetry

Dependence

avian cry

insistent whine

“feed feed hungry starve”

full-sized crow

follows mom

doesn’t know he’s grown

Challenge
Write a rhyming poem using the words purple cow, blood orange, starved rock and angel falls.
Cover image for post Road Trip, by starryEyes
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Road Trip

We're halfway to Angel Falls -

Time to eat your bagel balls!

Try a piece of this blood orange -

It's nothing like that mud porridge.

Yes I see your pet starved rock -

Feed it carrot-shaped carved chalk

Here’s your milk from the purple cow -

Grab your straw and slurple now.

Yikes! See those coming glacial squalls?

Let's speed away to Angel Falls.

Challenge
amend an adage.
Cover image for post The Tortoise, by starryEyes
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The Tortoise

Slow and steady finishes the race.

If it's a sprint, the rabbit will win.

And of course if it's a marathon, the wolf will win. They are amazing long distance runners.

Challenge
Describe what being young feels like in only one sentence!
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starryEyes in Philosophy

Dichotomous Youth

To be young is to be completely confident in your possibility, ability, and invincibility while being persistently insecure about who you are and where you're going.

Challenge
Try to come up with a short poem or story using only song titles from your favorite singer or band.
Cover image for post Britt Nicole, retold, by starryEyes
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starryEyes in Music and Rap

Britt Nicole, retold

when she cries

all day

you

walk on the water

say it:

the sun is rising

stand, feel the light

believe

don't worry now

sunshine girl

glow

like a star

set the world on fire

Challenge
If you were invading Earth, where would you start and why?
Nothing particular.
Cover image for post Earth Invasion Plan, by starryEyes
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starryEyes in Sci-Fi

Earth Invasion Plan

First, I would attack and secure the major agricultural resources of the earth. Priority would be given to the highest yield areas that are far from large populations.

Second, I would leak photos of our alien species at these farms on the internet, especially on dubious crowd-sourced sites. The photographic evidence will convince the masses that any rumors of an invasion are a hoax. How? Humans, always confident in their own opinions, cling to their preconceived ideas even tighter in the face of evidence. The photos will surely be dismissed as doctored by pranksters and perpetuated by conspiracy theorists.

When individuals come to investigate, they will see armed guards dressed in uniforms bearing the Monsanto insignia. Unable to get close to the operation, they will return home to spread the news that the evil geneticists are trying to kill humanity yet again. We shall add to the internet speculation by suggesting that the corporation is covering up evidence of harm caused by GMOs, or that monoculture growing practices have enabled widespread pestilence. A bulk of the population will engage in bitter debate without even trying to discover the facts.

As food becomes scarcer due to our tight control of the farms, we will suggest malicious intent by any and all as the cause. No doubt it is Big Pharma that's to blame, since they are working on a medication replacement for food. Or certainly the Government is hoarding the food and denying its people in order to subjugate them. And it's highly likely that this is an act of terrorism.

The world will be in such a state of panic, backbiting, and hunger that they will welcome their savior: my people and me. "Save us, oh high and mighty alien beings! Teach us your ways of peace and harmony! Share your life-giving food, your cures for disease, and show us how to save our planet!"

Disillusioned, delirious from hunger, or deceived - all will come to me. And then Earth will be mine.

Challenge
Write a Valentine's Day card to a villain, OR to someone you really hate.
Cover image for post To Zach Varmitech, by starryEyes
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To Zach Varmitech

You're extremely smart

clever and cunning

Your latest inventions

are simply stunning

Your robots are handsome

shiny and cool

Leave out the creatures

and I'll continue to drool

Give up your grudges

and hold back the whine

Take these black balloons

and be my valentine <3

Challenge
Write your own "Life is like..." analogy. Write as many as you want.
Cover image for post Life is like Global Warming, by starryEyes
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Life is like Global Warming

When life heats up, it's easier to ignore the warning signs than to make personal changes.

Challenge
Write about your favorite song.
Cover image for post Restoring the Locust Years, by starryEyes
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Restoring the Locust Years

The path to healing forks too many times

The road to contentment is hard to align

It's been almost eleven years I've had this chronic illness. Despite all the treatments I've tried, I haven't made it to the clearing of good health. I'm still wandering these twisted paths, lost.

Patience, acceptance, perseverance, thankfulness, contentment; sometimes I'm there. But they are slippery things that are hard to hold on to. Some days I rage and sorrow and flop about in a pool of misery.

Out of the anguish - the quiet voice is mesmerizing

Great God Jehovah sympathizing

I connect with the honest lyrics and hard edge of this metal song, on those kind of days. And by it I am reminded that there is One who is here with me, entering into my grief and pain. There is a subtle, peaceful current that draws me into His embrace.

Manifold in misery - symbiotic history of trials

Soon a yard turns into miles - a day becomes a year

Ugh. More than a decade of chronic illness and various health problems. Just when I settle into a rythm of functioning within my limitations, it seems like something new crops up. Anxiety, depression, perpetual fatigue, and cognitive degeneration are bad enough on their own - but mix them together and it's quite a mess. And these are but four of my symptoms!

No path set before me present itself as clear - confusion without peer

A cudgel of forlorn dreams hits me square and final

Some dreams are lost. Forever? I worked as an electrical engineer and absolutely loved it. I can no longer, and probably never will. Adapt, find new hobbies, dream new dreams. Smack! Health changes again. My world shrinks around me. I wonder who I used to be and who I am now.

What you cannot do for yourself

There is One who is able

To restore the years the locust ate

When sorrow has its grip on you

Giving you no reason to submit to any other

The prophet Joel of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles wrote about a plague of locust: "What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten." Grain, fig, grape, olive, and every other plant were decimated.

Complete destruction. Starvation. Impending death. Powerless, hopeless, crushed.

But God said that if the people returned to him with all their hearts, he would provide an abundant harvest and fill them with joy. "I will restore to you the years that the... locust has eaten."

When my life seems destroyed and I've reached my limit, when there is no hope - there is yet hope. God can do the impossible. He is able, and he cares.

Restoring the locust years

Only God knows his timetable of reclaiming what was lost and bringing life out of death. It may begin with only perseverance and hope, when I have none of my own. But the outcome is assured for all those who love and honor him.

"Restoring the Locust Years" by Tourniquet:

https://youtu.be/GCzE0h7ueic