Armistice [Collaborative Poetry]

[sunravelme]

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Fuck the grenades you throw into my life
I refuse to live as if I am at war
I will dance in no mans land
I will eat your bullets
Your arsenal is no match for mine
I rise from this battlefield
unscathed, un-shriven
Defiant in the crossfire
Armed with nothing but will
I'll find peace while you standoff
I can't lose a war I refuse to fight

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Art is free to use from pixabay
Written in collaboration with the ever so talented @clayboyn

Comments

[carmalain7]

Strong extended metaphor, team. Wasn't expecting the pacifistic turn at the end there after so much visceral imagery, such a great turn!

Fun to see a collaborative poem work so well - you two did a great job in that I wouldn't have known it was two writers if not revealed; seamlessly done.

Thank you for sharing, @clayboyn and @sunravelme!

[sunravelme]

thank you! I think that's certainly one of the ultimate goals of a collab, for a poem to work so well it looks like one person made it instead of two

[intuitivejakob]

Love always wins.💘

[sunravelme]

❤

[wandrnrose7]

This is very powerful and succinct. I, too, search for peace in the land of war and dissent.

[sunravelme]

Thank you! I hope in the end, we all find our peace

[wandrnrose7]

Me too, dear.

[luthvarian]

<3

[sunravelme]

Thank you lovely <3 Hope you're doing well!

[staceyjean]

Powerful piece from the dynamic duo! Fuck the grenades indeed 👍✨

[sunravelme]

Thank you for checking it out! <3 Loving your work lately

[damianjayclay]

Really strong and unabashed opening line which throws you through the rest of the poem.

[sunravelme]

I'm glad it has movement- sometimes I question to include cursing in a poem, but that was the emotion that inspired the entire thing, so it stayed.

[beercake]

I really liked this one :)
You really nailed the metaphors for me.
The first grenades line is just great on it's own.

[sunravelme]

Thank you! That one was mine <3

[masterpiz]

I can't lose a war I've refused to fight
Nice diction

I've tried to ryhme it up with..
Especially if it doesn't give my world light
Seems it's won't work.....,

[sunravelme]

Yeah, Clay is the rhymer between us- occasionally he works in free verse with me.

[eyedreemit]

Yeah! I'm doing the Supergirl pose, feeling empowered.

[sunravelme]

Awesome! At the end of the day, that was the reaction I was hoping for!

[zulibnuwahab]

nice

[musawirmuda]

Good post I really like that