19 April 2019
NaPoWriMo.net has invite us poets to a prompt that is a stylized one. An abecedarian poem. What is that, right? Well, what it is is using the entire alphabet , where A-Z is what starts each line. And here it goes.
Avoiding the chatter of ‘who’s got it right’
Basically preferring to not get involved
Choosing words carefully can be exhausting
Deciding to remove any chance of that possibility
Even when the pull to let it have me is strong
Feeling into the timing, when not being noticed
Gives me the opportunity to exit without a dive in
Honestly, I haven’t the energy to make good this banter
Joining in has yet to prove itself a worthwhile decision
“Keep it real’ is my inner dialogue repeat
Likely my ‘real’ will not be welcome in the messy
Mix of whose Righteous shit is the best righteous shit
Nobody wins in the this kind of back n’ forth
Oblivious to each other’s opinion the rants escalate
Power hungry for the last word drags them all on
Quietly, I let myself grow small and unseen
Relaxing into the wall like I’m the wall itself
Slip out the back door into the flickering night sky
Taking in the fresh clean darkness in silence
Urgency slides into the shadowed light
Vision becomes clear with each step into the night
While I feel the tug of my own rightness dissipate
‘X’ marked in glitter nail polish marks the top of the gate
Youth has a way of finding a way out of places
Zeroing in on the ‘x’, I make my final get away.
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Ownership, jeanne adwani
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