Beyond the complacent
Sure
Of ate billion hearts
Surrendering footholds on a dormant doormat
Removing egos and shoes
There’s still a better way
you persist to resist
Pushing on, pressing in, holding out
Sea legs and gulls
Brine the flightless bird, submissively begging for
Release
This cup from me
The fountain both empty and overflowing
In the garden of Gethsemane
While sleeping friends plot dreamless defense
Against
Faceless, colorless darkness
Across nameless origins of
Original sin
Ordained she, among them
The blood of infinite sins washed clean in a tidepool of prayer
Deliver us from
These merciless details
~
Photo Credit: n. Vines, an artist who came, saw and left. Anna Maria Island 2012
D’Versed poetry prompts: Looking Up and Who are you?
Born in Providence 
Hello there! While this is a beautiful photo and wonderful words writ within your poem – it does not relate to the Tuesday Poetics prompt you’ve linked it to. Lookin’ Up was to use one of the Hubble images posted within the prompt. I do hope you’ll stop by dVerse again….and in particular, perhaps write another post using one of the Hubble images on the prompt. The prompt will be open for posts until 1:00 PM today. Alternatively, you could reconnect this particular post next Thursday for our OLN (open link night) when any poem of a persons’ choosing can be posted (no prompt on OLN). Today, at 3 PM, a new dVerse prompt will appear which is related to writing an Ode. I invite you to stop by dVerse again this afternoon at 3 PM to see that prompt as well. Again, while I do so appreciate you linking to dVerse, this is not related to the Hubble Lookin’ Up prompt and so, as the “tender” of the Lookin’ Up prompt, I must delete it from our Mr Linky list.
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No worries Lillian. I understand. I edited the link out as well but kept the source of the prompt inspirations. Looking forward to today’s prompt.
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Interesting poem – fyi – link didn’t work
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I edited the link. It didn’t match the prompt it was linked to.
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I love it E. My favourite line, “The blood of infinite sins washed clean in a tidepool of prayer” Beautiful :):)
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Thanks Margaret. ❤️
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It’s my pleasure E 🙂
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How are you, E?
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Hanging in there. I took today off to catch my breath, which really means, laundry, housekeeping, research, some writing and food shopping haha. I think I’d do best with a 30 hour work week and no mornings. Even better would be full time writing! Dare to dream. 🙂 Thanks for asking my friend. How are you?
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LOL sooooo you really aren’t taking the day off at all then 😉 I don’t know who created mornings but they are a struggle sometimes. 😉 I have been going full speed ahead this morning. My next 2 weeks are just crazy. Every one has planned everything in the next 2 weeks. Maybe if I hid in the closet no one would find me. Dare to dream ;):)❤
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Margaret I will bring snacks and hide in the closet with you! Let’s stay till the holidays are over 😂 Take good care my friend. No one seems to be giving it out haha.
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hahahha. Oh my goodness E, now you are tempting me. hahaha I am taking all the care I can get because you are right no one seems to be giving it out.
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❤️ thank god his yoke is easy and I’m not talking about omelettes haha.
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😂😂😂
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Oh, this is beautiful!
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Thanks Annie.
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Loved this. Great post!
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Thanks!
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They’re sticklers for the rules over at Dverse. Sometimes it’s appropriate and other times not. Let’s do OLN on Thursday, I have a few ready to post.
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They can follow rules but sometimes I don’t 😉 I love D’Versed. What’s OLN? I’ve got some writing time again today.
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