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 Feb 2022 Prevost
Carlo C Gomez
Have you been to the City of Eternal Sunshine's
navel academy?

Belly buttons in the sun, sparkling and shimmering:
crescent moons like deep wells dug by
the callus hands of Woodspur's
first settlers.

They belong to desert roses, Coachella girls,
where wearing a bikini is not a sin, but a means of survival.

Clothed in eensy triangles, they've walked
with farm workers, reveled with festivals,
and prized the glory of Pueblo Viejo.

One can now better understand how this place
was nearly called Land of the Little Shells.
To the city of Coachella.
Inspired by the poem "Give Me Pretty" by fellow Hello Poetry writer, Bella.
now your name may be redeemed
your wanderings freed into new

adventures

or maybe you will still stay inside a while

inside the boundary lines

four fields

corona
he seemed surprised yesterday that i had completed the task


to ensure the proportions looked right for me


it is part of the job and if it is diaried must be done
So long is about how long far is from not far
and that's not fair.

I opened one eye and all seemed well
so the other eye opened in sympathy,
this is how symmetry begins and we all know
that's the road to ruin.

Fancy that?
at my age I fancy anything that involves breathing and
believing that breathing is good for me
I hope to carry on breathing indefinitely.
 Feb 2022 Prevost
Traci Sims
Fourteen state-wide ban
One history is valid
Welcome back, Jim Crow.
While I understand that it is wrong  to teach that a group of people are "evil" and that the entire country is "flawed" due to this group's "evil nature", some serious questions have to be asked at this point:

1. Why should we blindly champion a history that celebrates near-genocide of one group of people, the enslavement of a second, and the marginalization of a third (Asians not being allowed to build or own housing).
2. Why have we reached a point in our collective history where we are afraid to bravely examine our past and use it as a way to understand our present and move towards a brilliant future?
3  When did "exceptionalism" come to define only one group's dreams and accomplishments and to hell with the rest?

Sorry, I can be silent no longer. And if Hello Poetry bans me, I will shout elsewhere. Let freedom ring!
He who isn’t heard,
isn’t seen either.
He is lost inside
Because in the world outside
he doesn’t exist.
Use your voice
Be visible.


Shell ✨🐚
By speaking for yourself you can make a difference.
 Feb 2022 Prevost
Ciel Noir
MAD
 Feb 2022 Prevost
Ciel Noir
MAD
I know we want
to get revenge
but wouldn't we
be just like them

get back at them
talk smack at them
react
and turn our backs on them

this is how everybody thinks
this is how everybody sinks

there is no balancing
the scales

this is how everybody fails
 Feb 2022 Prevost
Zoe Mae
Pretty things fare well
Everyone loves pretty things
Pretty flowers, pretty houses, pretty faces
We don't visit ugly places
The under belly, the blood, the snot
Perhaps ugly things are best forgot
Pretty, it fades if we see it each day
Fresh eyes wouldn't focus on the magnitude of decay
But the slight beauty that grows around
Well, that would be found right away
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