Social (an acrostic poem)

So many people together in close proximity

Ordinarily that could be a fun time for the crowd

Covid changed that dynamic greatly

It forced us to find other ways to be close while being farther apart

And while it wasn’t perfect, it was sometimes enough

Letting us dip our toes into the sea of being…

Eve (an acrostic poem)

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Every new beginning has that night before

Veiled in ambiguousness and anonymity

Experience that tonight, and may your tomorrow be ever changed

Orbit (an acrostic poem)

Oscillating around her, trapped in her emotional gravitational field

Rotating in and out of her sunny disposition

Bob felt like their relationship was becoming too predictable

It changed and became chaotic and way more complicated

The moment a third body entered the picture

 

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Useless (an acrostic poem)

Until her twenty-third birthday, Abagail thought she was special

She would walk around like the queen she knew she had to be

Everything changed when she met Chuck

Love left her vulnerable, lowered her confidence

Esteem shrunk under Chuck’s manipulative eye

Soon she was relegated to being just his wife and not his partner

She told herself it was for the best.  Otherwise, she would be ….

 

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Paper (an acrostic poem)

Putting things in writing was what James preferred

As digital copies couldn’t be trusted

Pen scratching along a surface made something physical

Electrons changed too quickly

Really he just liked making airplanes out of his writing when it didn’t work

 

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Week (an acrostic poem)

When seven days had gone by

Everything had changed completely

Everyone had gone full zombie on her

Killing her hopes for humanity in such a short period of time

Testify (an acrostic poem)

There once was a time where I was lost and clueless

Even thought about just giving up completely

Seriously, it was that bad

Then you walked into my life

It completely changed everything

Forced me to become a far better man because of it

Yet throughout this whole ordeal my hatred of you has never wavered

 

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