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Midge
Member since January 31, 2021
Member for 5 years, 4 months
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A Nightly Prayer
She sits in a wheelchair
years of care etched onto her face;
her family doesn't visit any more
but wait like vultures.
She looks out the window,
the rain patters softly on the pane
tears flow down her withered cheeks
running through the eroded crevices
like ancient streams.
A master of music was she;
in her brighter years;
she would run her bow over the strings...
such music she had played.
She was loved, vibrant, beautiful,
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but no longer.
She is now abandoned
in this place of the elderly and dying,
her life now empty.
with naught to do
but wait to for silent death,
her body slowly failing
and her mind weakening.
Each night, she lays herself down to sleep
praying she will not wake up again
to hear the stentorious farts of the dying.
Midge’s timeline
- January 2026
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31 SatAnniversary
5 years of membership
- June 2022
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09 Thu
- January 2022
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31 MonAnniversary
One year of membership
- December 2021
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15 Wed
- July 2021
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26 MonCritiqued
"Crimson Squid of a Cimmerian Sea" by @Miss Macabre
"That says it. Sorry. I Should Have Said That Says It, Shouldn't I?" -
26 Mon
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26 MonCritiqued
"Passionate Inferno (Explicit Content)" by @Miss Macabre
"Surely the 1st line should read "lie" not "lay"? The rest of the poem is ALL in the present tense so the 1st line should also be in the present tense." - May 2021
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26 Wed
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25 Tue
- April 2021
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27 TueCritiqued
"WHEN I AM OLD (challenge contest)" by @scribbler
"I am sorry you have spoiled a very funny ending!" - March 2021
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15 MonReceived a critique
on A Nightly Prayer from @Lavender
"Hi, Midge, You have written a poignant poem from the point of view of your subject - deep and intense. Your perfect, but pensive title enhances your words. Thank you, L" -
15 MonReceived a critique
on A Nightly Prayer from @Geezer
"the plain, hard look at one of our big disgraces here in this country! I recently had a conversation with someone not from this country and asked if they had found a nursing-home for a relative? They informed me, that i…" -
14 SunFirst critique offered
on "The Dust Bowl" by @Lavender
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14 Sun
- February 2021
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14 SunReceived a critique
on Love sublime from @Arrow
"Here I express two suggestions, which are probably also biases. 1). Stick to the concrete. Where you have done it, it is done very well (the meadows lit by the rising sun is a great image). 2). Metaphor over simile (e.g…" -
14 SunReceived a critique
on Love sublime from @Breakinglogic
"Midge, This is an interesting, almost meditative, peice. When I see words like sublime, harmony, forest, life, immortal, and rising sun, the word "melancholy" is standing out in a lot of contrast and I wonder if it is m…" -
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03 Wed
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02 TueReceived a critique
on Transient love from @Lavender
"Hello, Midge, You've sized up the extreme highs and lows of love in a brief, but strong poem. I like that you've used an exclamation point after the first "Love!" I was immediately curious. I did notice that you used "d…" -
02 TueReceived a critique
on Transient love from @Geezer
"I disagree with your assessment of love, you do have a good piece of work here. Welcome to Neopoet. ~ Geezer. ." -
02 TueFirst publication
Transient love
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02 Tue
- January 2021
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31 SunJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 2 days later.
About Me
About me
I'm a young black Englishwoman who is hopeful for a future after Covid-19. I trained as a singer but, with theatres, concert halls and opera houses all closed, I have been unemployed for a year now and with little respite in immediate sight.
Location: England
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