Angela Thompson (Freedom 2022)

Angela Thompson

Victors

You’re above everything    

momentarily     

leaning into your 

New Laws, imposing 

monetarily on    

preoccupied pawns 

upholding promise         

carefully versing  

considering your  

Cruel self-confidence   

how your fervent sect  

produces your cold,  

zealous negligence  

wields unseen weapons 

upon workers and 

children: how dare you 

now descend on

communities—times

you created.    

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Diverted Potential

Days open like blooms 

while no clouds overcast 

plans: set dreams, seeds 

when whetted rise aspiration  

but give way, dampened 

by forceful assertion 

wielding passionate disregard 

as if saving grace weren’t 

mercy— kindness of humanity

which humbly extends 

hands to meet need 

without cajoling.

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Free Play: Last Decades

snuck cigarettes taste     

laughter inside cracked windows

fallen leaves crackle

under hidden feet 

twenty inches from our chins

outside, feeling cold 

below windowsill 

flatware clanging, dinner smells 

like winter coming 

time, figments passing  

twenty years plus ten  

autumn has arrived 

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Bio: Angela is an experienced freelance writer and editor from the United States. Presentation, perception, and language drive her professional and creative works, the latter which seek to encourage enthusiasm for nature, diversity, and acceptance. She resides in the Southwestern U.S. with her marriage partner, where they dream of travels after retirement.

Ms. Thompson can be reached via direct message @CaTxAng

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Freedom 2022 :: Setu, August 2022