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  • Broken Body

    By
    Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    iStock.com

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

  • Somebody – Anybody?

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Slit – Image by KL Caley

    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?

  • Dichotomy

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    etsy.com

    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

  • Astoundingly Pink

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Koda photographed
    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

  • Ocean Dreaming

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Photo credit Darrell Whiley

    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

  • Spiritual

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    In response to E.M.’s RWP ~ #219 prompt word spiritual
    Hosted by E.M. Livingston

    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

  • Evilness Returns

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

    In response to
    E.M.’s RWP ~ #218 prompt word: evilness
    Hosted by E.M. Kingston

    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

  • Odd Photos by Gypsie-Ami

    Kammie’s Oddball Photo Challenge Hosted by mammasquirrel

    All photography by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Dragon Tree @ Wilmington, NC
    Amorous Anole’s @ Wilmington, NC
    “See what happens when he eats my food??” Photo taken in Hereford, AZ
  • Feathered Prey

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    Wordle #561
    The Sunday Whirl
    Hosted by bwarren

    glum pray birds myths growl bones trickling hum spirits willowy run lost three

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    Three glum birds searched the willowy forest for more of their kind. Finding only bones in the trickling river, they realized they had lost their families to pollution, plight, famine, and the dreaded hunter.

    They heard the gentle hum of their families spirits before an evil growl above them spoken of in the myths of their ancestors, invaded their peace. The three little birds had to run hard and long to find a hiding place, where they stopped to pray for safety from the vicious hunting dogs and their cruel human masters.

  • A Year In A Day

    By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

    In response to the Weekend Writing Prompt #268: Hosted by Sammi Cox
    This weekend your challenge is to write a poem or a piece of prose in exactly 46 words using the word “Year.”

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    When times are good and happiness thrives a year slips by in merely a day

    When times turn dark and oppression takes hold a year drags on for untold days

    When People decide between right and wrong – years of rebellion will grow wide and grow strong