Catching up with NaPoWriMo prompts

Day 2:
Postcards from a Poetry Forum

Dear Achates,

Hearts are smoking; it’s not a peace pipe

Fettered fuses collide, ridicule and gripe.

May you be so kind as to lend me a book,

One offering wisdom with merely a look?

Anonymous

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Dear Anonymous,

Among the books found on my shelf,

Robert’s Rules of Order speaks for itself.

Something to live by out on the street,

Emily Post’s Etiquette entices aesthete.

If esteem’s what you want rather than libel,

Then take love’s advice etched golden; The Bible.

Yours truly,

Achates

Day 1
RED: A Tanka

Viscid blood sprays ire,
Venom spreads with the mound;
Vindictive fire ants.
A bed burning, whelps on skin-
Tread softly through Poe's hot mind.


*NaPoWriMo