NaPoWriMo April 25

Heed my words. There is no choice a

Voter can make that isn’t political.

Protect your home and your family

Before the dangerous one rises

And attacks our land again.

 

Source: A Political Family Rises Again

NaPoWriMo April 24

When I was a child I wanted a bed

To sail me off to fairy land. My bath

Was the ocean, linked by a heavy chain

To the bed. My dreams rose in clouds to

Shake the heavens, They do not start

To tell a scary story until there’s a process

That relaxes my mind into summers of

Magnolias and gauze dresses. The door’s closing

Leaves me in the dark, afraid to shop.

 

Source: Bed Bath Chain to Start Process of Closing Shop

NaPoWriMo April 23

After the hearing officer makes her ruling,

We return singing to our tent homes on

The open plain. Our sweaters pill

After washing. Our mother puts

Them in a trunk. Is it prudence

To hold ourselves together above

Simplicity, or a nasty grab for power?

 

Source Ruling on Pill Puts Prudence Above Power

NaPoWriMo April 22

The room shaped like a pentagon

Holds secrets that cannot leak.

So many glowing secrets began

Their life in a universe earlier

Than stars were born, earlier than

Light was born, earlier than any thought.

 

Source: Pentagon Leak Began Earlier Than Thought

NaPoWriMo April 20

Golden gladiolas glimmer at a social

Gala, gifting gladness through the media.

Carnelian carnations cower as

Clouds convey the conscience we

Avoid. Ruby roses riot when they knew

Revolution readied the world. For it

Can’t escape the gardener that she is

Hostage to wind, sun, rain, all long

Needed, yet climate emergency gone.

 

Source: Social Media as We Knew It Is Long Gone

NaPoWriMo April 19

She has given up on the network’s

Offering anything but a deal

That benefits them and avoids

Royalties to her. They’ll say it’s a

Work for hire. She will fight

For the royalty contract, but

Expects their lawyers will not

Come around without leaving scars.

 

Source: Network’s Deal Avoids a Fight, but Not Scars