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Inspired

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By Jesse KilgorePublished 5 years ago 1 min read
My Moms

As gender fluid leaks all over these Downtown LA streets,

she winked at me from behind pre-op 3rd basemen’s eyes.

When she swung on by

all SWOLLEN with PRIDE

near 1st & Vigne,

her confidence made me wonder

Why?

Am I still so shy-,

in my own eyes-,

That I still can't share what I write?

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Hello Approvers,

Perhaps you could pass up the food chain an idea. An acceptation for poem type posts to 8 chars?

The current 100 word min. for a poem post is almost unreasonable. One of the objectives of poems, in my understanding, is to use as few words to convey a feeling or message etc --

Consider these poems by M. Ali (shortest known) or Robert Frost

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‘Me, We’

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Dust of Snow

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

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My hope is that after pointing out the char count limitation for the group type of post called Poem being too many at 100, your development team would implement this change. Gracias a lot. –jes

:)

inspirational

About the Creator

Jesse Kilgore

Cali Central Valley & Foothills Native. Non-paid intern at R&D Dept. for the Divergent Thinkers Club. Exploring the Kübler-Ross model since 1974. 🧡🐝

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