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A Short & Sweet Soliloquy

Lioness:

The stomach aches that are non-stop, Summersaults need to stop. The jungle would like to take a sabbatical. Nature can only grow when given time to recuperate. The stars begin their nightly dance and prance about the vines, but you do not have to. The lightbulb that has never been turned off is standing by. To unlearn hurry up and learn rest. I have faith in you to listen to the constellations and mostly importantly yourself.

©️ Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 4.21.2023

#catawampuscollywobbles

#monologues #playwright #poetsandwriters #national poetry month

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“Happiness Only Exists in a Cup of Tea (Illicit?)” (Pantoum)

I have a secret place where I sip my black and lemon-ginger tea

A nontraditional cafe

Why it is almost perfect?

I always leave with less anxiety

A nontraditional cafe

The planks of wood with rusted chains washed up next to me, my table

Why it is almost perfect?

The old tree that fell during a hurricane, my chair

The planks of wood with rusted chains washed up next to me, my table

Violins of Ireland play in my ears as piano and drums underscore my almost evaporated tears

The old tree that fell during a hurricane, my chair

Sea salt, sand, and seagulls my calm company

Violins of Ireland play in my ears as piano and drums underscore my almost evaporated tears

My cup empty, for now, time to face the next uphill battle

The old tree that fell during a hurricane, my chair

that cannot hold me upright until tomorrow

©️ Elizabeth Sophia Strauss, 4.19.2023

#national poetry month #poet #new ink #pantoum #poetry #clandestine #secrets

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“Love, loss, and What I Wore, that fateful night” (A Ghazal)

Love, loss, and What I Wore, that fateful night

No dress, beanie, book, or sauce could predict, that fateful night

The pain they left for me to live with

I was a tree with too much moss, that fateful night

Should I have worn a little pink dress then?

Pushed my comfort for gloss, that fateful night

We do not always remember a place

But what I wore will remain in thought, that fateful night

They are simply temporary pain

We ran our predicted course, that fateful night

©️Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 4.15.2023

#poetry #national poetry month #poetsandwriters

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“I Sit” (A Pastoral Poem)

I sit in a Long Island Victorian mansion and cannot feel my calloused, tired, cold, unsteady hands

I sit in the twenty year old dining room chair

I sit in front of a fifty year old Americana writing desk

I sit with too many thoughts for a crabby patty

I sit with anxiety moving the keys on my laptop

I sit with patterns and mistakes

I sit with consumption that I cannot read anyones mind but my own

I sit looking outside the white four glass window seeing myself in the bare trees

I sit knowing the leaves want to present; never easy

I sit remembering how much joy instantly bring to my face when in full bloom

I sit and fantasize about the green, red, and yellows leaves and how my sadness escapes into them

I sit at this bureau to make money and work through my life; work

I sit and wish I could still hear the ocean on cool spring days like today

I sit but cannot make out the sound’s voice as my music drowns her out

I sit to think about control and power and how these are patterns and mistakes; their abuse

I sit in suburbia longing for concrete jungles

I sit in gratitude I can be a city and country mouse in brownstones & Victorian Americana mansions

I sit not knowing how my future will play out

I sit hopeful that I will get to swim in calmer waters with the Sound’s songs.

©️Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 4.11.2023

#poetry #poetsandwriters #poet #pastoral #depression #poetic license #national poetry month #upshot

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“Follow The Tense Humor” (A Limerick)

I hear the bells toll with ease

They emote with a goal to tease

Their messages unnerve, so lessons not learned

Eventually their will play in with turns

Until then, there will be vegan cheese

#ringlimitsystem

©️Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 4.2.2023

#national poetry month #poetry #poet #community #limerick #deadpan #humor #funny

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©️Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 2.4.2023

#new ink #poets and writers #prose poem #poetry #spoken word #artists #metaphors #poetess #poetry community

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New Ink “Snow” ©️ Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 1.23.2023

#new ink #snow #poetry #writers and poets #poem #poet #poetess

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Writing prompt “Bodhi”✍🏻

©️Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 2023

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For my friend, La Bruja 🧿💖🙏🏻 @nuyoricanpoets

#nuyorican #writers and poets #family #familia #gracias

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#mlkday #queer poetry #poet #poetess #lgbtq #freedom

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Poetess Tori Lutz powerful interpretation of my #poem #AnUnparalleledDuet from Section One #innerquestions in #innervisions. Visit Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble to order #innervisions & dm Tori to order her gorgeous collections of poetry #schoolyardcrushesandprozacprescriptions ; or check out the famous Miami bookstore #booksandbooks to purchase.

And, TONIGHT hop on Zoom for Tori’s writing workshop #poetsanonymous w. The Word is Write7pm ET 💖✍🏻📚 🎙️

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A dream author moment.

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“Palms” 9x9 Panku

One of the most sensual parts of the body

The inside of our hands that catches all our

our energy. The palms God graced each of us

with. Gender & sex aside we all have the

power of dual touch. The caress of the softest

part of our skin. The first advance with another

being, between wrist & fingers. Tingles of our souls

connect instantly, transferring desire without having to verbally

communicate it. Of course, with the utmost confirmed consent.

©️ Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 1.4.2023

#sensuality #poetry #poet #poetess #religion

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Artists Shane Manier & Daniel Arthur Gurley gorgeous interpretation of my #poem “By the End of This” from section II #potentplunges in #innervisions. DM me to order your signed #authorcopy of #innervisions & dm Shane & Daniel to order their powerful collections of poetry and to get involved with Guerilla Poets🖋️🎶📚 Tell Tell Poetry The Word is Write Read or Green Books David Wayne Fox Photography

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Writing prompt “Range”✍🏻

©️Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 2022

#prompts #poetsandwriters #artistic license #creatives #challenges #salvador dali #ghosts #triolet #poetry

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Poetess Shockie Grant’s beautiful interpretations of my #proses “Believe in the Vibrations” & “Flowing Waters” in #innervisions. DM me to order your signed #authorcopy of #innervisions & visit Shockie G’s Linktree below to order her powerful collection of poetry #shatteredemotionsscatteredthoughts 🖋️📚

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Writing prompt “Hamster Wheel” ✍🏻

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#prompts #writers #creatives #artisticlicense #hamsterwheel #kamasiwashington #thesecretofjinsinson #challenge #newink #septolet #poetry #form ©️Elizabeth Sophia Strauss 2022

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