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Take Off
TAKE OFF
Taking off
Like a butterfly
Taking off
Like a startled starling
Taking off
A well known character
Taking off
Like a jet fighter
Taking off
A burdensome disguise
Taking off
A shirt, a skirt, our underclothing
Taking off
Into the unknown
Taking on now
Disguise in love with you
Undone
UNDONE
Taught are we to see
Hate love’s opposite
Intractable distraction
Love’s true opposite fear
Kindly includes an egress
Openness versus closure
Courage to say yes or no
Root planted deep within
Will bloom forth in truth
Secret Love
SECRET LOVE
Let us
Forever
Take care
What we reveal
Until
Breath held
We take the plunge
Jonah
JONAH
If you try to run off
Expect misadventures
Heed that still small voice
You have a job to do
Take Your Partner (27b)
TAKE YOUR PARTNER
Let us dance
Woman to woman
Will you lead
Or shall I?
We’ll brave their less than pure jibes
Tend one another
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This was written as a contribution to The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt No. 57.
https://secretkeeper.net/2016/10/03/weekly-writing-challenge-57/
Seed Words: | BRAVE | TEND | PURE | LEAD | DANCE |
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No Victims Here (17a)
NO VICTIMS HERE
Never mind
The finger-pointing
At others
Circumstance
Take responsibility
Take charge, take the wheel
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One Valiant Victim
ONE VALIANT VICTIM
Are we not all the one
For whom the bell tolls
While currently being
If we care so to be also
The one with the balls?
Open Ended
OPEN ENDED
You are invited to take the air
On wings for too long trussed
(Not the best sort of trust)
So switch craving to braving
Half the sky is already yours
The other half yours to explore
Fearspawn
FEARSPAWN
Many people believe
(Having been taught so)
That love and hatred are opposites
But in my experience this is not correct
The true opposite of love is fear
Fear is the ground
From which hatred grows
Love opens us up
Fear closes us down
We no longer see
So we imagine
And hate what
We think we see
To overcome our hatred
We must first overcome our fear
Of our fellows and of ourselves
