my gemini capsule source
poetry: Add them, for my POSSE
Zach DeCook 2022-04-29
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## My content
=> /capsule/ Zach's Capsule: Original writings kept to be preserved
=> /devo/ Devotional content: Some reflections on God's word sorted by day.
+=> /poetry/ Original poetry
All content CC-BY-SA-4.0 unless otherwise noted.
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+# Can't suspend
+``` poetry
+Stayed up late,
+like a phone with a bad kernel.
+My head shakes,
+when I sneeze, it feels vernal.
+Now I wake,
+like my soul, the cold's eternal:
+Wonder if they'll inter me when stuck in the afterwinter.
+```
+
+=> https://social.librem.one/@zachdecook/108062849750050263 Originally published on Mastodon.
+=> https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1478 Inspired by the 5.17-allwinner pinephone kernel release, which brought to my attention that suspend/resume never really has been working anyway.
+=> https://www.napowrimo.net/day-two-9/ Following GloPoWriMo's prompt to write based on an obscure English word.
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+#Common Meter
+```poetry
+Just start and write eight syllables
+Add to it three plus three
+Repeat with rhyme set as your goal
+You can write commonly.
+```
+
+=> https://social.librem.one/@zachdecook/108077826887140762 Originally published on Mastodon.
+=> https://www.napowrimo.net/day-four-10/ GloPoWriMo said to write a poetry prompt as a poem, so this was my go.
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+# Go Among the Thorns
+```
+Go where the need is,
+echoing deliverance:
+Silk among the thorns.
+```
+
+=> http://randal.us/upon-the-grass/ Originally published as a response to Randal's poem "Upon the Grass".
+=> https://www.napowrimo.net/day-one-4/ Loosly based on GloPoWriMo prompt 1, 2022.
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+# Poetry
+
+## Written for GloPoWriMo 2022
+
+=> long-to-work-the-perfect-way.gmi 2022-04-07 Long to Work the Perfect Way
+=> what-happens-when-a-leprechaun-loses-his-toothbrush.gmi 2022-04-06 What Happens when a Leprechaun Loses his Toothbrush?
+=> common-meter.gmi 2022-04-05 Common Meter
+=> see-him-there.gmi 2022-04-03 See Him There
+=> cant-suspend.gmi 2022-04-02 Can't Suspend
+=> go-among-the-thorns.gmi 2022-04-01 Go Among the Thorns
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+#Long to Work the Perfect Way
+```poetry
+We don’t have long to spend here on earth
+May we work to reach the goal.
+Be it so small or of higher worth
+Sure, your talent’s still of gold.
+
+That, you should use, yes, for good not ill:
+God is watching every day.
+Is it your quest, man, to do His will?
+There, you’ll find the perfect way.
+```
+
+=> http://randal.us/god-is-there/#comment-250 Based on Randal's Poem, "God is There".
+=> https://www.napowrimo.net/day-six-9/ It's a word-acrostic of the iconic line from that poem.
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+# See Him There
+```poetry
+I can’t even see the air
+Though I see things that are awry
+And yet I’m sure that God is there,
+No matter how dark the failing sky.
+
+Rivers past have all gone dry
+Smoke spews from the dragon’s lair
+One cannot see clear through the sky
+How heavy the stale, polluted air.
+
+Toil tonight o’er here, o’er there
+Fight ye now, or later fly
+Burning heat, the cinnamon air
+The brow may sweat and throat go dry.
+
+Yet up above, way past the sky
+He glances down on you with care.
+His fountain flows, it’s never dry
+We may be sure that God is there.
+```
+
+=> http://randal.us/god-is-there/#comment-247 Based on the first stanza of Randal's "God is There".
+=> https://www.napowrimo.net/day-three-8/ It's written as a "glosa", the last line of each stanza is a line from Randal's poem. I also helped myself out by copying some of the ending words, though each stanza has one line with a unique end-word.
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+# What Happens when a Leprechaun Loses his Toothbrush
+```poetry
+What happens when a leprechaun loses his toothbrush?
+Don’t say it too loud, it’s all very hush-hush.
+
+For this cobbler is known for his great record keeping
+He’s up through the night while you’re probably sleeping
+
+But he finds time to sleep, in his blankets of silk,
+And awakes every morning, eating cereal and milk.
+
+There’s no time to bathe, but he brushes his hair
+And he usually finds time to change his underwear
+
+But today he can’t find his set of teeth bristles
+Perhaps it was lost out back with the thistles
+
+Now he’ll start off his day with a grand new adventure
+At the end of the rainbow is a bowl of gold dentures
+```
+
+=> http://randal.us/the-cereal-aisle/#comment-248 Originally published as a comment on Randal's poem (which has little to do with it or the prompt).
+=> https://www.napowrimo.net/day-five-9/ You could probably guess the prompt by reading this poem, but here it is if you're curious.