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Artsy Fartsy Thursday

Artsy Fartsy Thursday
Arsty Fartsy Thursday

Artist: Serenity Rose

pencil drawing

Title : who dis?

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.

Artsy Fartsy Thursday

Artsy Fartsy Thursday
Arsty Fartsy Thursday

Artist: Serenity Rose

pencil drawing

Title : phoenix

Fae Corps Publishing Pad Challenge Day 8

Fae Corps Publishing Pad Challenge Day 8
2026 PAD Challenge Day 8

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.