Raging

Photo courtesy Tess Kincaid, Magpie Tales

Storm rages within…

voracious ebon entity

slowly possessing me

Fighting the

current;

bruised, cut…

swept
away by
another

wave.

How do I exorcise

this witch,

this black bitch

that devours until

nothing is left?

©  Ginny Brannan September 2011
(For Susan, keep fighting.)


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Scarred

Scarred 

    (9/11/01)

attacks unprovoked

innocence, raped by hatred

resolve forged by fire

© Ginny Brannan September 2011

Image: Google Images 9/11

“Gone, but NEVER Forgotten”  Dedicated to the memory of all lives lost from the vicious attacks on 9/11/01

Our scarred hearts still bleed…

Shared at d'Verse, In Memoriam 9/10/11. 

On Distant Seas

Each dawn I’m drawn down to this shore--

to soft white sand and gentle breeze;           

dream of my love on distant seas

sailed off to fight another's war.

“Pink sky in morn, sailors be warned!”

I pray he will return once more,

but life holds no such guarantees.

Each dawn, I’m drawn down to this shore...

©  Ginny Brannan September 2010

Written for BlueBell Books Short Story Slam Week 9

Image Credit: Art at Google.com

Reward for Participating in Short Story Slam

Unraveled

Soft-woven scarf upon her head

a  rock-strewn ground on which to tread.

Observances at last complete,

escape to 'Playland' for retreat--

Employee states that guest must ‘shed’

the woven scarf upon her head;

“We have firm rules for safety’s sake;

that park cannot defer or break.”

Who knew this statement would incite

as scuffle breaks into a fight

from woven scarf upon her head

and regulation left unsaid.

Did Muslim clothing segregate

incite inert religious hate,

unravel First Amendment’s thread,

by woven scarf upon her head?

©  Ginny Brannan  September 2011

In the news,  August 31, 2010:  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/08/31/2011-08-31_muslims_cops_scuffle_at_rye_playland_over_amusement_parks_head_scarf_ban.html

Photo from article, NY Daily News online

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Shared at d'Verse Poets Pub Open Link Night #9

Universal Language

It is in silence
where our actions speak loudest
understood by all

© Ginny Brannan September 2011

Participating in d'Verse Poet's Pub Friday Poetics with Sheila Moore. For today’s Poetics, the silent film era is the prompt.  The object, to write about one of the actors, compare and contrast silent films with present-day movies, or maybe write a parody of one of the above scenes.