Monday Poetry

Poetry

2026 PAD Challenge Day 18

2026 PAD Challenge Day 18

my response is ( though late still )

according to the constitution
the definition of citizenship
is either one born on this soil
or one that follows the rules
and takes the tests to gain
the green card to become one.

if you stop them from getting the tests
you stop the legal process for citizenship ...
this country was founded on immigrants
the idea of immigration. the only non-immigrants were born here.

and even those were often
children of immigrants.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 17

2026 PAD Challenge Day 17

my response is :

a house with no foundation
falls in so quickly...
so too does the soul
without ego fail.

We need to build
a foundation,
stable and true...
so that with time
we know the ability
to face the truth.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 15

2026 PAD Challenge Day 15

my response is:

our forefathers set up hope 
in a nation so young...
it was supposed to be freedom
for all and welcoming arms
for those who need sanctuary.

the new government are pirates
stealing the dream.
piracy of hope seems to be
unbelievable and profane...
for the reality of this country
is nowhere near what everyone
believed it would be.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 14

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.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 13

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

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.

Monday Poetry

Poetry

2026 PAD Challenge Day 11

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

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.