early march grunge not pretty
mud and thaw try kickstarting life's gurgling
a first crocus breaks through
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
I don't want the world to know my name,
I don't want fortune,
I don't want fame.
I just want my work live on when I die,
and influence those to lonely and shy,
to take that next step,
to smile and say Hey,
to the guy who walks passed them everyday,
who like them is so unsure of himself,
afraid of a life alone on the shelf.
Lacking the courage to break from his shell,
trying to smile a hello to the girl
who looks away and bows her head,
choosing to lower her gaze instead,
of making eye contract,
kickstarting a life,
that could lead her one day to being his wife.
So instead of fame and all that shite,
I will raise my voice in the hope that I might,
reach the ears to those who refuse to hear,
so frightened and lonely and crippled by fear,
your worth is within you,
you're someone to me.
So take that next step,
and learn to live free,
of the doubts that you have,
of how pretty you are,
believe in yourself,
and you will go far.
endowing superlative creature comforts
reduce wretched survivors scant band of bare naked ladies
beastie boys, foo fighters espying counting crows
ready to buzzfeed toe kin *****sapiens
bereft, expunged, faux invincibility kickstarting
learning basic survival skills
forced to rescind twenty first century trappings
shifting paradigm sans primacy
pitting dishabille helpless imps against killers
who do not shrink from ethically principled
but give full reign to selfish callous deleterious foibles,
gruesome harmful indiscretions
sprouting with mushroom rhizome rapidity
ousting the omnipresently
(well nigh since time immemorial
virtues cultivated, futilely integrated, lending oomph
residentially, scientifically tendering ubiquitous DNA
foisting gabled, heralded, instilled,
justified kneaded love thy neighbor motto
lyft ting in one fell swoop delicately
embroidered, finely graven, heavenly ideals
no more patent leather shoes reflecting up
nor doodling Yankee staking claim to fame via feathered cap made of macaroni
thus such jingoistic, holistic, fabric ripped retroactively
ramping atavistic simian base,
thus leveling the playing field.
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