Author: Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

E.M.’s RWP~ #227 Prompt Word: UNWAVERING

O say does that star-spangled
banner yet wave*
Or has the unwavering pursuit
of money and power stilled
Your Stars and Stripes
denying your loyal citizens
of their God-given rights

And the star-spangled banner
in triumph doth wave* across a nation decimated by unwavering belief
in a statute misconstrued
to cause chaos and pain
To bring glory to the Godless
leaving the rest to fight and beg

A people we constructed this nation
unwaveringly built on principle
and pride denied the Indigenous
their land and quelling their souls
Now our own bell does toll
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave*

*Excerpts from The Star Spangled Banner written by Francis Scott Key

By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Morning sun rises
brilliant golden rays
pierce a broken heart

By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

sundae always bless sludge pool hot fudge tiny pixie butterflies taste vivid
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Bless the tiny pixie girl
With vivid butterflies in her hair
Always there to give a taste
From her pool of dark hot fudge
To he who had to sludge through life
Giving him a laugh and a smile
Served atop a giant bowl
She made for him the best darn
Sundae mixed with love

By
Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Body racked with pain
Release me from your cruel torture
So I may live again

By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to WRITEPHOTO – Slit
Hosted by KL Caley

Days hot and long
How long, unknown
No stone to mark the walls
Not a single straw to mark a year

High above a slit
Days pass by and nights
Slide through it without relief
Hands grow gnarled hair is thinning

Bitter loneliness arrives
Depression anger disbelief all
Left so many nights ago unmarked
Somebody anybody know I’m here?

By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

The road from there to here
is long
From here to there
not so long

A sad mournful song
is right on key
A song mournful and sad
way out of tune

The sun sweltering hot
feeding flora and fauna
A hot sweltering sun
burns plants to the ground

A heart lonely and cold
grows still in the chest
A cold lonely heart
warms at your touch

By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to Eugenia’s Weekly Prompt – ASTOUNDING – July 19, 2022

a puppy adorned
in a pretty pink vest
is astoundingly cute

By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to Photo Challenge #423
by weejars @ Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie

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Salt spray clears the mind
turquoise waves carrying
foamy white topping
moves swiftly toward the shore

Squeals of delight
children chasing the tide
as shells roll furious
beneath bare ticklish feet

The air soft and warm
envelopes glowing skin
brings a wealth of renewal
to young and old the same

Across the bay people work
all day never paying any heed
to the beauty of the sea
and all she has to say

By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

The birds in the trees
singing to me

A brilliant red sunset
setting down in the west

A garden full of seeds
pulling all its weeds

Warming in the sun
surf, sand and sea for fun

The soft gentle nudge
from a dog named Pudge

A newborn babies cry
sends our spirits high

The touch of a warm, loving hand
a sweet long dance

A strong loving embrace
any time any place

(A Short-Short) By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Evil is the look in their eyes
saying goodbye
for the very last time
then returning once more
walking back through the door
Evilness returning to score