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    • Poetry: Humdrum Humdrum White Noise

      Posted at 4:35 pm by Jeddarae, on June 21, 2018

      hum hum hum
      humming humming humming
      humdrum humdrum white noise

      If you’re lost in the hum, how can you find the humble?

      hobnobbing public pageantry
      hurling humdingers into profanity
      homogenizing vanity
      hovering behind hypocritical religiosity

      iconoclastic impostors of sanity

      humdrum humdrum white noise
      humming humming humming
      hum hum hum

      If you’re lost in the hum, how can you find humble?

      Hum? Hum? Hum?

      heave-ho the inanity, harrumphing, and humbugs
      and help put the human back into humanity
      and hush the white noise

      Posted in poetry, Uncategorized, writing | 0 Comments | Tagged blogging, blogs, hate, hum, poems, poetry, white noise, writing
    • A Poem: HATE

      Posted at 11:25 pm by Jeddarae, on December 15, 2017

      My brain is mush this week (Where are you at Christmas break??? This teacher can’t even speak coherently anymore.), so I’m using this opportunity to share a poem I wrote last year and posted on Facebook.


      HATE—
      looks like a simple word.
      What does it mean?
      The opposite of love?
      Move it around,
      and it
      flames
      into

      HEAT.

      HEAT that sizzles, burns, consumes:
      including everything.
      including love.
      What’s left?
      Nothing but HATE.

      Try it again
      What is HATE backwards?

      ETAH.

      Nonsense.
      Even backwards.
      Backwards and forwards.
      HATE is nonsense.

      What happens when you drop a letter: E?
      It gives you and me
      and everyone in between a

      HAT

      conveniently.
      To hide behind.
      Because you’re scared.
      Because you and me
      and everyone in between is scared.
      Of what we don’t know.
      Of what is different from what we do know.
      So it must be wrong.
      So you and me
      and everyone in between
      wear HATs to hide our HATE.

      Maybe the problem with HATE
      is the H at the front.
      That pesky H.
      It’s always been my least favorite letter in the alphabet.
      I’ve had a problem with that letter since
      I was taught to HATE that letter.

      But what happens when you do drop the H?
      You’re left with

      ATE

      Or did the HEAT
      from the HATE
      grow so strong that it finally ATE
      that pesky H?
      Because that’s what HATE does.
      It can

      EAT

      away the good.
      The common sense.
      The logic.
      But who needs logical reasoning when HATE
      is an emotion?
      Because feelings
      are more important than facts?
      Oh wait.
      Not true.
      That’s the HATE talking again.
      But who cares about logic when
      your feelings are hurt?
      HATE doesn’t.
      It’s what it wants.

      So let’s choose to stop
      the HEAT,
      the ETAH,
      the HAT,
      the ATE,
      the EAT,
      of HATE,
      and instead
      have some

      TEA

      With our neighbors.
      With our communities.
      And discuss.

      Discuss adding an R to that dreaded word.
      Not to create a HATER.
      The world has enough of those.

      Move those letters around some more.
      Feel how this word sounds in your mouth:

      HEART.

      That’s much better.

      Posted in poetry, Uncategorized, writing | 2 Comments | Tagged hate, poems, poetry, writing
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