Inflation rising
Debt market ballooning
Misinformation spreading
Covid at a fever pitch
Pakistani floods cresting
Monkeypox climbing
Droughts in Europe gaining steam
Melting glaciers snowballing
Catalytic converter thefts ratcheting up
Homelessness building
Raytheon’s profits exploding
Mass gun violence volleying
Child obesity expanding
Fentanyl overdoses shooting up
CEO salaries multiplying
Oil wells booming
Wildfires stoking
Ocean acidification spiking
Landfills swelling
Urban sprawl skyrocketing
Threat of apocalypse mushrooming
World War III escalating
It was cooler in the garden today.
Saw two squirrels fucking.
And my sunflower
finally,
bloomed.
Ready to Burst
The Tigress Awakens 
Yes, your garden is the ideal place to escape this escalating world.
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Yes thank God. It’s a community garden and was lucky enough to win a lotto. I’m never lucky at anything. So its been my only respite in these troubled times.
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Thank goodness for those
squirrels 🐿️ and sunflowers 🌻
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Ain’t that the truth. Thanks for the comment!
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Some things are thankfully unsullied by human touch.
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Lucky for us!!! TY for your comment!
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Indeed. You are so welcome.
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The contrast is indeed striking in small, safe places…for a while… nicely done!
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Glad you liked it! Safe places for now…smartly said
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Wow! It was such blessed relief to get to the stanza where you were in your garden and your sunflower bloomed. So well done – the contrast really hits home. What a predicament we’re in.
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Yeah it’s unfortunate thats whats on the headlines everyday. But it doesn’t mean we have to put our focus there. Thanks for coming by Sherry!
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“So soft, its voice, as soft
as the somnolent song of our lives
the last notes sounding,
holding death at bay,
before they gently, softly, finally
fade away.” This gave me goose bumps! Loved this! (I can’t figure out how to comment on your poetry page its a google format or something…so hopefully you read this!!
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So reminds me of the line from the I Ching, to and fro goes the Way. Implicit in the motion this further oracle: It furthers one to cross the great water. Funny too how all the worldly breakage expressed in the first stanza are relieved in just a few simple local lines in the second. Grace is powerful.
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I like (technically speaking) how the tension builds in this poem; followed by much needed light relief at the end.
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Thanks for noticing and your awesome observation!!!…all these terrible things in the world building and getting ready….but somehow the most important thing (at least in my world) is my sunflower….
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Well after all that preceded squirrels and sunflower were a nice way to end. The human input on almost everything these days seems to be nothing but fuckery.
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Complete anserine fuckery…; )
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I’ve never witnessed squirrels copulating. I can’t say I’m remorseful about this. In fact, I’ll be okay if I go through my entire life without seeing that. I’ll stick with sunflowers.
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Ive seen squirrels going at it twice in the same year now. Its pretty awesome actually…I was just worried from your wind up you weren’t going to say sunflowers but instead all the bad things I listed in the beginning. So yeah I can agree with you on sunflowers; ))
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This is great! I have two pictures of sunflowers on our walls. I love them. I also love the word choices in so many lines – child obesity explaining, overdoses shooting up – brilliant.
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Ha thanks so much!!!! I really really enjoyed writing this one!!
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An apocalyptic uncomfortable orgasm with an unexpected heavenly afterglow. But somehow in the NOW. Brilliant.
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