Human Rights, Mental Health, and other Hyperfixations
This category covers anything described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights.
Each of the poems in this post was written for #MastoPrompt, which is a writing challenge on the Mastodon Fediverse. The prompter gives a word, and each poet or short story writer uses that word or concept in the work they create in the space of a 500-character post on Mastodon. The creator of MastoPrompt is Tan (Tanweer Dar). Go give him a follow.
I’m re-posting all of my #MastoPrompt poems (mostly Haiku form and limericks) from November here. Hope you like them. Going forward I’ll be posting them per week vs per month. Weave With warp and weft we Turn delicate threads into a community Vision You’re a sight to see A vision …
I created this poem on Mastodon for the MastoPrompt hashtag, but I liked it enough to give it a permanent home here. She holds in snifflesAt the stares, glares, and commentsThe public gauntlet Out only a yearA lovely trans-femme womanLiving her true self “You’re beautiful, hon”He said, while just passing …
Yes, it has been a long time, and no, I didn’t finish the series. So I’m going to work through more of these, as I have time and energy. These will be in the same format: First, quoted from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and then re-stated in plain …