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Five original micropoems with images
<center><h1>Five micropoems with images</h1>
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<div class="text-justify">Happy Friday! Recently, @owasco posted <a href="https://steemit.com/hive-114105/@owasco/raptor-a-collection-of-poems">a collection of poems</a> that reminded me how much I enjoy shorter-length poems. I thought I would try my hand at writing a few and create some composite images to go along with each one. After that, I am going to repeat them without the images in between, as some prefer text only. <em><b>In a comment below, let me know which was your favorite, or even write a micropoem of your own in response :-)</b></em> Have a great weekend ahead!</div>

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<h2>darkless</h2>

through the bright haze
of progress—
inscrutable stars 
play hide & seek
in the grey-lit city night.
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<h2>prison break</h2>

I sit and think—
—half-feverishly—
of a phrase in the shape
of a jail-door's key.
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<h2>infrastructure</h2>

tendons, joints creak;
hands reach, interlace—
form a sanguine bridge,
over a heartless place.
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<h2>ear-worms</h2>

discordant motifs jostle 
—subterranean—
through tunnels to the tram:
launch into a waiting train,
and mingle silently.
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<h2>impressionable</h2>

my mind:
the kind of putty
that stretches
until it gets too cold
and snaps.
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<h2>darkless</h2>

through the bright haze
of progress—
inscrutable stars 
play hide & seek
in the grey-lit city night.

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<h2>prison break</h2>

I sit and think—
—half-feverishly—
of a phrase in the shape
of a jail-door's key.

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<h2>infrastructure</h2>

tendons, joints creak;
hands reach, interlace—
form a sanguine bridge,
over a heartless place.

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<h2>ear-worms</h2>

discordant motifs jostle 
—subterranean—
through tunnels to the tram:
launch into a waiting train,
and mingle silently.

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<h2>impressionable</h2>

my mind:
the kind of putty
that stretches
until it gets too cold
and snaps.

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<center>*This post is original content
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<sub>Published to STEEM
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[*Images created by
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@d-pend ·
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Proof of micro-sharin' on the ol' tweet-repository—https://twitter.com/TheDpenD/status/1233542821426159622
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@jaynie ·
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Those are all beautiful! And so are the images. Love the one with the hands especially. I saw @owasco's poems and your comment on that post too and it got me thinking about poetry again too which I have not done for quite some time. 

I am not what I would call a poet of any kind and I only generally ramble off what I attempt to pass as poems at ungodly hours when the emotions are high and the wine bottle is low. lol. Somehow those moments seem to raise a heightened level of emotion and creativity, so it is the only time I would ever attempt it.

So I thought that was what I would post today. Still need to go and find some of them and compile it all later, but I have been so busy catching up on the reading and commenting of all the "steem story" posts.... took me days to do that but am finally up to date wooohooo!

I have derailed...


Anyway - you got my point. Hopefully :D

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>I am not what I would call a poet of any kind and I only generally ramble off what I attempt to pass as poems at ungodly hours when the emotions are high and the wine bottle is low. lol. Somehow those moments seem to raise a heightened level of emotion and creativity, so it is the only time I would ever attempt it.

Hahaha. I think creating poetry in such states is a somewhat more *productive* use of them, since we end up with a sort of "abstract journal entry" into our present experience that, if we do nothing else with it, can be insightful or at least entertaining to look back on once the moment has passed. I encourage you to continue writing them if you find it fun and tell the "inner critic" to kindly "piss off!"

When I started writing poetry in 2011 or so, then more fervently in 2013 and onwards, I knew absolutely nothing about what I was doing; I had never read much poetry to speak of, I just found it a good emotional outlet at a time I was enduring immense internal suffering. I cringe when I read those poems but they are also kind of endearing and they started me down the path of a new and exciting form of creativity.

There are gaps of years where I hardly wrote at all; when I came to blog my poetry daily in 2017 I certainly did not consider myself a poet. I think only after writing hundreds of pieces, beginning to study excellent poets of the past in the English language and resonating with their work, learning from those wiser and more experienced than me in the 100 Days of Poetry project did it begin to dawn on me that I could perhaps consider myself to be a poet.

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I find it most helpful, to counteract the effect of society's expectation that to be titled something one must be an expert at it, to instead interpret these titles in the most literal way. I.e. I write, therefore I am a writer. I write poetry, therefore I am a poet. I cook and create recipes, therefore I am a chef. Ultimately it makes no difference to me how skilled I am considered by others insofar as I am primarily interested in exploring the communication of intangible sentiments, states of consciousness, and unique worldly experiences. 

>I have derailed...

Writing is always like that for me, incessantly tangential :-D !ENGAGE 40

>So I thought that was what I would post today. Still need to go and find some of them and compile it all later, but I have been so busy catching up on the reading and commenting of all the "steem story" posts.... took me days to do that but am finally up to date wooohooo!

Looking forward to seeing that, and I totally know what you mean... I got so burnt out looking at scores of poems daily over the course of 3 months; though I enjoyed the interchange of energy I found the sheer quantity was totally overwhelming!
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@jaynie ·
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> I think creating poetry in such states is a somewhat more productive use of them, since we end up with a sort of "abstract journal entry" into our present experience that, if we do nothing else with it, can be insightful or at least entertaining to look back on once the moment has passed. I encourage you to continue writing them if you find it fun and tell the "inner critic" to kindly "piss off!"

Well, I just did take that little "look back" and shared it with all of you too. 

>I just found it a good emotional outlet at a time I was enduring immense internal suffering. I cringe when I read those poems but they are also kind of endearing and they started me down the path of a new and exciting form of creativity.

You will probably cringe when you read mine... hahaha - that is assuming you will LOL ***I think I just cringed saying that*** :D

>There are gaps of years where I hardly wrote at all

I am pretty much like that with everything.... my culinary adventures, writing, design, drawing - you name it. Must be a Gemini thing lol, but I go through "waves" - will do something for a while, then I bore of it and move on to one of my other "passions" - I suppose I will spend my life rotating them... but one thing I am not is a study addict of ANY kind. I am a "wing it" girl. Purely emotionally and energetically driven. 

>I find it most helpful, to counteract the effect of society's expectation that to be titled something one must be an expert at it

I think I just responded to that in my above statement without even realising it or having read it yet lol. 


>I got so burnt out looking at scores of poems daily over the course of 3 months

Am surprised you aren't talking to me in haiku right now :P hehehe :D




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@jaynie ·
Thank you @d-pend :)
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@owasco ·
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*Darkless,* a play on light, little pops of sparkles and fades. If we could turn off all the lights of progress, would the light of eternity still shine there?
*Prison break* (my favorite) trying to concoct a tool to gain release out of mere words, like writing a story. I imagine a prisoner (or a writer) using all their might to make something from nothing. Nice, I love this one
*Infrastructure*, a simple touch turns mechanics into magic. 
*Earworms*, LOVE the image of all those sounds silently mixing, a massive tinnitus engulfs us all. Listen!
*Impressionable*, silly putty, a mind like silly putty. I always found it satisfying when it snapped, like I find your mind. 

The art is very interesting too, the *discordant motifs* in them and how those mingle silently on the page. How do you make those? I think I might like doing that. 

When I'm not battling injustice! I got massively downvoted yesterday, three posts! So frustrating, like it's not hard enough to gain a foothold here, some jerk thinks it's OK to rob from the likes of me because poems take too much from the rewards pool. 

What are all these d-pend.extra (etc) upvotes? New tokens? I'm so behind on these things. I just want to publish my little pieces and live in peace on earth. Seems that is too much to ask from steem.
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@d-pend · (edited)
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Hey @owasco! Grateful for the poetic dialogue here :-) I find it interesting that you say 'Prison break' was your favorite, as it's the one that began this whole thing. Was meditating in the morning as I generally do before getting out of bed and all of the sudden it appeared. Probably, it's the most heartfelt — a bit of a lament, as it were, of the mind's delusion that some word, phrase, story, belief, concept, etc. will break it out of the self-inflicted prison of ignorance. At the same time, the very willingness to express it somewhat transmutes it, makes it less heavy and more whimsical, I think. All in all, your reads show plenty of insight and I thank you for that.

>The art is very interesting too, the discordant motifs in them and how those mingle silently on the page. How do you make those? I think I might like doing that.

I showed the iterative-compositing process with minimal explanation on [Behind the scenes — "Hoist me up the flame" images](https://steemit.com/hive-174578/@dpend.extra/behind-the-scenes-hoist-me-up-the-flame-images) about a week ago. I consider myself an amateur there as I'm really just experimenting and continually finding more that can be done with Final Cut. However, since there seems to be interest, I will likely create some blogs in the future that give more concrete steps to how I go about doing it. I originally opened the @dpend.extra account for behind-the-scenes looking at things posted on my main blog, as I don't want to spam my followers with too much :-P

The @dpend.active is for posting my actifit report cards, again so I don't spam anybody with those, and I will probably blog a bit about skateboarding and health-related content from time to time there. As of now, no "dpendcoin" exists, and I am still relatively in the dark as to steem-engine tokens and the like.

I'm sorry that you got downvoted; I'm thinking someone reacted to the article you posted about Witnesses and retaliated against what they saw as an unfair portrayal of recent events. It is unfortunate, but my time on Steem has shown me that the best way to stay out of the firing line is to **A) stay out of posting regarding Steem Politics;** I only engage on others' blogs from time to time in that area, and **B) If I get flagged, say nothing and pretend it never happened,** which causes anyone who gets off on getting a rise out of someone to not find it entertaining to flag you and **C) Never assume I've gotten anything from a post until it pays out.**

>I just want to publish my little pieces and live in peace on earth. Seems that is too much to ask from steem.

You and me both! That all being said, I hope that the flagging situation doesn't escalate *vis-à-vis* your future poetry blogs, and will continue to support you in that area, so please keep me updated. I hope you do not get too discouraged as I enjoy seeing your contributions. I am sure with your quality of content more large whale votes in future will serve to counterbalance what was removed from those three recent blogs.

!ENGAGE 50
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@owasco ·
$0.03
Thanks for the link to reiterative-compositing! Gonna give that a shot! And for your support. 

I was DV'd because I bought sbi for @freewritehouse of all entities, the one that saved my steem life and onboards a LOT of people. 

I received a lot of support to counteract the DVs (esp PHC), and today I feel a little better about it. But the main hit was on Raptor, which is the very best thing I have ever posted on steem, so I was especially despondent. 

But you bring me to one of the things I dislike the most about steem - we have to ignore the affronts so as to not suffer more of them. I can not abide that. 

So of course, since I can not keep my mouth shut, I'm working on a post that will either make or break me here. I need a voice in the governing of this place other than to choose among witnesses whose inner workings completely escape me. 
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@misterengagement ·
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@redheadpei ·
$0.02
My fav is Darkless . The title is a unusual word and stars do struggle to be seen through the haze of city lights.

Darkless
through the bright haze
of progress—
inscrutable stars
play hide & seek
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@d-pend ·
!ENGAGE 20
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@redheadpei ·
Thanks @d-pend!
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@steem-ua ·
#### Hi @d-pend!

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@steemitboard ·
Congratulations @d-pend! You have completed the following achievement on the Steem blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

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@d-pend ·
That is a hefty amount of upvotes over time. Thanks for the milestone notification @steemitboard!
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@tipu ·
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@wwwiebe ·
$0.03
I really enjoyed these! Micropoems are hard to write and portray a good sense of emotion. Well done!
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@d-pend ·
$0.02
Thanks a lot for reading @wwiebe and for your praise of my efforts. Have a great weekend! !ENGAGE 10
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@misterengagement ·
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@zeleiracordero ·
$0.08
They're all beautiful creations. It's hard to choose one, but "ear-worms" moved me. Emotions and feelings that are difficult to explore and experience are similar to earthworms. They become subterranean, tangled up like a mass of ribbons with a life of their own, turning in on themselves without uttering sounds, playing, growing, knotting. Although they are harmless at heart, our lack of control over them can lead to a loss of balance.
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@d-pend ·
$0.06
Beautiful reflections as always @zeleiracordero. !ENGAGE 50 These tunes, utterances, sensations, emotions bury deep, where they often play in the fallow fields of the subconscious. I began the piece thinking of "ear-worms" which is slang in English for songs or melodies that get caught in one's head. You find yourself humming little pieces of them and they play back continuously, morphing and merging with other scraps of song unpredictably. How much is writhing around in the recesses of consciousness, pressed down willfully, neglect, or distraction by the next urgent entertainment?
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@zeleiracordero ·
$0.02
Ooh... Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I played it from the side of worms or earthworms.
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<center><div class="center">https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/50x50/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdHfkhCPGYcfUqZqT4Br3nsmCpeVPj1BcLoepVX2PYeAE/engagetoken.png/ </div><br><br> @zeleiracordero you have received `50 ENGAGE` from @d-pend!<br>View and trade the tokens on [Steem Engine](https://steem-engine.com?p=market&t=ENGAGE).</center><br><hr><center><sup>This tip bot is powered by witness <a href="https://untersatz.steem.design">untersatz</a>!</sup></center>
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