Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
Timothy Gager's feature was a much needed tonic for the past seven days.
For all our downer poetry, the mood was very update on Wednesday. I regret that this week's poem is not.
Stone Soup will continue to do the one thing we can do while we're still allowed.
Thanks for reading.
Cheer Up
another bridge
Women need
to continue
walking.
Repeat to your
phone's AI
This is fine.
The war on
democracy
already ended.
We've become
our own
puppet regime.
Excrement
on the walls
is now design.
Create new
new photo ID
made of Lego.
Our optimists
are already
gravedancing.
Now keep off
roads, stay on
winter beaches.
Safer to walk
in nighttime
at this moment.
Children might
be safe acting
like walking dead.
War cry music
turns up as
last votes tally.
Generations
hear families'
hearts die first.
Their dirges
a flurry of final
calls to arms.
Best in world
now a place
to avoid.
Special thanks to Patricia Carragon, Mary Jennings, Richard Spisak, Edward S. Gault, Jackie Oldham, Jon Wesick, Robert Fleming, Bil Lewis, Jan Rowe, Erik Nelson, Christiana Celli, Mary Ann Honaker, Mark States, Rich Boucher, Ethan Mackler, James Van Looy and special feature Timothy Gager.
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