Rip the tail off a lizard – It will grow a new tail - everything necessary to regenerate a whole lizard contained in this reptilian fragment, and I can only hope my heart will share the same survival instinct when you tell me you want to rip the tail off.
Jewish Young Professional 
Heck of a lead in. Then you leave us hanging by a tale.
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Life is too short for gentle openings, you know? Gotta leave the reader hanging by the tale/tail.
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Apparently.
😉
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possibly the hardest hitting poem I’ve read recently.
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Thanks! When the prompt says start and end with the same line, better make it a memorable one, ya know?
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That’s a rough one. Ouch!
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Tough on lizards and lovers. The lizards just recover better
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So it seems.
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such reptilian savagery; terrific; being torn asunder metaphorically or otherwise is never pleasant —
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True, but sometimes, a savage poetic gut-punch is oddly satisfying. I had to go for it.
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fully agree: sometimes our best poems are written from anger or vindictiveness, the dark side —
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I hear ya. Sometimes, life is too short for gentle, mild-mannered poems!
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very very true !! it is good to seethe in verse 🙂
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That’s haunting!! I’m still thinking about it hours later! Very nice poem!! ❤
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I am flattered – that is high praise! ❤️
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bunnies recover too but would you? 😂💖
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Ouch. Now that’s just cruel. Although arguably no crueler than doing the same thing to the lizards.
I wrote the opening line so that I’d be able to use it again as the last line per David’s prompt this week, but re-reading it, I am thinking I should reword this. I don’t want to give the impression of encouraging animal cruelty!
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I know my neighbor pulled my bunnies tail off. It didn’t seem to bother it idk
Oh no worries. I think they grow right back. Never phase the lizard 🦎 ha
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Well, that is comforting. Still, I fear some troll will stumble upon this blog, take the line out of context, decide I’m encouraging needless animal cruelty. Ah, the internet…
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Well, there’s that?!? Always one… but can we be bothering. with that said.. take it out if you feel uncomfortable with it. In a comment in a collab i said we can make it a 3some and my friend didn’t think it was a good idea. I thought it hilarious.. I took it out but if it was just me, I’d a left it. trust your gut.
and animal rights don’t get me started. I can’t walk the salamander flats nemore with my dog cuz of the protection of. oye vey~💖
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Hahaha! I think your collab threesome sounds hilarious! People are too serious sometimes. I just found your recent Fri-Yay musical collab with Tim and I thought it was wonderful.
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you and I might have to do that one,, lol.
omg wasn’t that fun. how could you not.. we’re cut out of the same mold.. thanks btw!
😂🥰
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Ouch! Terrifically savage. Love it.
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Thanks! Decided to go visceral and violent today for my repeated first & last line for the prompt. No time for niceties.
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Whew. No lizards were harmed in the writing of this poem. 🦎
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No lovers were harmed either, at least not for the purpose of writing this poem.
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😄 Love is a many splendored or splintered thing.
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Profound and 100% spot-on
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I winced!
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Even if you didn’t intend it that way, I’m going to take this one as a compliment. I kinda love with a poem gives you a reaction like that.
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Well yes. I meant it most certainly as a compliment!
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😊
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Goodness! This one hits home!
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Yeah, this one is a bit rough. No gentleness here!
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Hi, JYP ❤
The 5th W3 prompt, hosted by murisopsis is now live! Enjoy:
Much love,
David
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I officially hate monorhyme now. Stay tuned.
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[…] day, this steel stormy sky will rip the tail off and you’ll feel the bitter cold wind, the not-yet-spring awakening of a life turned upside-down […]
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