Protesting is Pointless

Go ahead, spin
your yarns –
convince me
not to persecute

Can you not see
my skin is naught
but tin; I am metal
inside and out

You are looking for
sympathy – requires
a being with a heart –
I am no such fool.

Hush your mournful
pleas, quit dragging
on me; I’ve no time
for nonsense, child.

(Today at dVerse, Mish has challenged to write from the perspective of either the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, or the Tin Man. Β Using the daily prompts of Fandango (being), Ragtag Community (yarn), Manic Mondays (hush), Β and Daily addictions (persecute), this portrait of the Tin Man emerged. Β If he sounds presidential here, it is purely coincidental. Image is from my personal collection, and seemed appropriate.)

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Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

48 thoughts on “Protesting is Pointless”

  1. I must admit the poem did sound like a certain WH official when I first read it. Your description of the prompts you used had me re-reading the poem and I can see it both ways now. Very interesting.

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    1. Ha, ha. Initially the poem was from the perspective of the tin man, but with the given words it ended up resembling a certain someone – unintentional, but hey.

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  2. I like the way this poem evolved from a variety of challenges, V.J. and I recognise the presidential in your Tin Man. I’m so glad you replaced ‘fake news’ with ‘spin your yarns’! I don’t think the Tin Man in the White House will ever find his heart.

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      1. Thank
        Goodness
        Love
        Is
        Coming Back..
        As Love
        Trumps
        Hate in
        The End
        And Beginning
        OF Real Existence
        Literally too
        With Mote
        Matter
        Than
        Anti-Matter
        So Perhaps in
        This way every
        Microbe oF
        Human
        Kindness
        Saves a
        Return
        Of
        A Big
        Bang too
        If only
        Trumps
        Knew
        Worth SMiLes..:)

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  3. I flashed on the Star Trek Borg creed “Resistance is futile”; thought you were going to take us to a dark place. Well you kind of did, and I dug it.

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