Naughty Netherworld PSA: Social Distancing Acrostic

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S is for sliding and side-stepping away

O is for only staying within your own circle

C is for care of yourself and others

I is for isolating

A is for always taking precautions

L is for spreading love, not contagion

D is for dancing at least six feet apart

I is for insisting on doing what's right

S is for soap and frequent hand-washing

T is for taking time to be safe

A is for asking others to maintain a safe distance

N is for nicely considering needs

C is for compassion and consideration

I is for indoors in your own home

N is for nature in a place that's uncrowded

G is for growing and changing to find new ways to do things

~cie~

I am aware that this reads like a motivational poster.

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NaPoWriMo: Write a poem about the letters of the alphabet or perhaps a poem where the letters form a short word. I kind of took liberties with that idea.

April PAD Challenge: Write a poem about social distancing. There you have it!

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NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 28 + Poems in April 2019 Day 28: Major Changes

Greetings from Grover, Colorado

Guess we're making an offer on a place that is

Really in the middle of nowhere

On the outskirts of the outskirts

Very far back in the backwater

Everything in the past leading us to this

Rural hotel in a very tiny town

Can't imagine that most folks would want to

Own a place that's such a 

Long way from everything

Out on the Northeastern plains

Rippling grasses and whispering winds

Accentuate the solitude

Dreary it may seem to most

Only the broken dream of such a view

~Cie~

Notes:

A daunting move filled with possibilities.

This place appears in the dictionary next to the phrase "fixer-upper" and the word "boonies."

It is zoned as a multi-use property and has given new life to my dead dreams.

This may be the most important move I will ever make.

NaPoWriMo 2019: Day 14 + Poems in April Day 14 & 3: Late Night in Lakewood

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Late at night in Lakewood

As the snow is falling

Keeping the snowplows working

Every hour they drive by

While I, up late as usual

Once in a while look out the sliding door

Out into the world white and cold

Dreaming of a day when life is not so difficult

~Cie~

Prompt #3

Prompt #14

Notes:

I broke my pattern with the catch-up game on the Poems in April challenge. It should have been 14 and 5, but the day 5 prompt didn't work as well with the day 14 prompt.

I didn't follow the NaPoWriMo prompt today at all.

The poem form is an acrostic or name poem.

I am so pleased with everyone's kind comments! I will try to catch up with all of you soon.