NaPoWriMo 2024 day 22

Pen on top of an open book

Day 22 of NaPoWriMo.

My poem

A Monday morning couplet of fourteeners.

Monday delivery

If Monday were a package shipped by Amazon for free
I'll keep it wrapped and ship it back โ€” and pay if charged a fee

Featured poem

Three cerebral triolets.

Mind Games

by Susan Jarvis Bryant

Propaganda
    It wants your mind. It wants you blind.
    It warps and washes wayward brains.
    It gains control of humankind.
    It wants you blind. It wants your mind
    To cave, to close, no cogs to grind
    Till not one stain of you remains.
    It wants your mind. It wants you blind.
    It warps and washes wayward brains.

Plot
    They want you led. They want you dead.
    They're carnage cloaked in care's disguise.
    They want you cowed โ€” afraid โ€” unfed.
    They want you led. They want you dead.
    They wield the reaper's scythe of red.
    They suck the soul from guileless eyes.
    They want you led. They want you dead.
    They're carnage cload in care's disguise.

Play
    Delight n dreams and set them free
    Like butterflies and birds in flight.
    Rejoice in treasured reverie!
    Delight in dreams and set them free.
    All hope is fair and feathery;
    It rises like a wind-kissed kite.
    Delight in dreams and set them free
    Like butterflies and birds in flight.

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