2026 PAD Challenge Day 14
my response is :
you were always there
when I awoke after
dreaming violence.
A soft safe space
to wrap around me
when I shake from
remembered violence.
I wrap myself in your love
knowing that I am done
with violence and am safe.
Lyrics –
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone
All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall
If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?
You! (if you don’t eat yer meat)
Yes, you behind the bike stands (you can’t have any pudding)
(How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?) Stand still, laddy!
You! Yes, you behind the bike stands…
My 2 cents –
okay this song has a story. I started 9th grade 6 weeks late due to childbirth. my best friend at the time (who was dating ny step brother) decided that my first day of school hadd to be special. She brought a big boombox to school and as I got off the bus blasted this song so loud the cafeteria windows shook. it was incredible and memorable.
2026 PAD Challenge Day 13
my response is:
her movements were
hypnotic
using only her hips she
spoke volumes.
they call it belly dancing
but she made it hypnosis,
calling me to her,
creating a desire,
that felt so forbidden.
I wanted to watch her move
until the whole world ended.
2026 PAD Challenge Day 12
my response is :
the treasure I buried,
in the time capsule
wasn't something anyone
else wanted to add.
others added pictures
and bits of themselves,
I added words bound bright.
For when the capsule is dug up
and all of the treasure is found,
I want to speak to the future of
knowledge forgotten and thoughts
profound.
2026 PAD Challenge Day 11
my response is:
perhaps it is the universe's joke
played on my life that I keep ending up
walking down the roads to nowhere.
I end up finding a way to somewhere
but not in the normal ways.
I have no tether to the right road
and truthfully I don't know if I want one,
for I have learned more from being lost
than I ever could if I followed some plan.
I will gladly walk those roads to nowhere
and find myself lost and learning
than to follow the plan and be
miserable.
BTW I posted a poem a couple of days ago and I said I was not sure if it belonged in kissed by Verse. I think it does not. I am going to open a new volume for it and this one…
2026 PAD Challenge Day 10
my response is:
Keep using your artificial intelligence,
Though you know the consequences...
and when we live in a world without water
what will you do then?
The art and words you seek
can easily be gained from
a human being with no effects
to the environment,
but you don't seem to understand.
2026 PAD Challenge Day 9
my response:
Let us live together
as shadow people,
outside of society
outside of the binary
outside of the world
in its current state.
it was tried in the sixties
as communes but again
did human nature invade.
I do not want to be human
I do not want to be afraid
I just want to exist in my life
im my own way.
Here’s My response:
I see the rage monster
you try to hide,
And I wonder if the monster
as you see it
is not but an injured animal within.
Injured animals strike
at anything within reach.
And as I refuse to leave your side...
Well perhaps you are not the monster
you think you are...
*note Right now this is sitting in the Kissed by Verse volume. I am not positive it fits the theme but I am also unsure it does not. My mind may change before publication of that volume.
2026 PAD Challenge Day 7
my response is:
under the midnight sky
tis easy to feel the hand
of the goddess
to receive moonlight blessings
and dance in the glory of the divine.
when the rest of the world sleeps
tis easy to feel the joy of nature
and revel in the beauty the gods
blessed upon us.
2026 PAD Challenge Day 6
okay I set up the prompts and I already did this one once because it was stuck in my head but I really am trying to do the pad challenge using the Fae Corps Publishing prompts so …
my response is :
daisy chains
tied us together
in flowers and paper
childhood memories
tree trimmings
and moments in the world
each one precious
each one unique
a chance to be
young eternally
