My style of writing is not normal thus rejected. I said I would no longer submit pieces for others approval but it is just so fun to received rejection notices so I started submitting again. Here are the rejected for this past week:
The first is titled – Unwelcome. It was written to show today’s women’s march in Washington to show how women have to struggle. All women were welcome except those against abortion.
Unwelcome
Wanting attraction, bound to molecule and atoms
Physical boundaries separate charged and uncharged
Fuck, Shit, Cunt, Bastard…
Repelled by words to accept
Birds, Joy, Paradise, Flowers…
Editorial appeal, rejected readers, no, never a real poem
Exposing hypocritical bias of mundane/extreme
Placing definition where definitions remain – defined
Poem of poetry transcends acceptance or rejection
It knows no bounds
No lines
It is reality of what lays in the heart of truth.
This next is titled – Memory of a Poem. It was written to show how a poem is truly similar to everyday life. It shows how editors use their own bias to pick what is and what is not poetry.
Memory of a Poem
It lived in creation, there sitting on the edge of the mind begging to come in
Caressed with formulation; idea filled; realty then.
Alive now, a word, a way; expression released
People and world see, feel, smell, live, with time.
Visible for everything and all
Emotions full of such range
Joy, anger, happiness, hate…
Then it is over, a new poem becomes alive
Old to move away.
Old guard
New guard
Poetry
Really never alive, never does it die…
Poetry represents the mood, the mind of the people
It is in them the fate of a world
Decides…
This next is one to show attacks, Mauled Minds
Mauled Minds
Animals walking, jogging, running, fleeing; engaged momentum
Physical daily moments pass…
Presidents sworn in, swearing begins as it finishes.
Kings. Queens. Dictators. Leaders.
Chosen by moving.
Nothing static in this world, as it falls, as it leaps
Giving names only gives reality reason
People try and hide
behind their own illusions.
Many spend life running in their minds.
Living to die,
Dying to live
Vicious track it spins.
The next pertains to a man Obama pardoned. A traitor who decided he was a she. A traitor is still a traitor. It is titled, Man Up.
Man Up
Simple times of cave, fire, waiting around to be devoured
Lost battles, spoils of war to the victor grew
Evolution of war, country, and castle.
Courting with bliss and destruction
Complications now with all parts
Communication, education, liberation, even war.
From past to forward
To where we are now
Man: Upside-down.