About Alexandra Heep:

Alexandra Heep is a longtime writer, chronic over-thinker, and recovering content mill survivor. Her work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and online platforms where words are still respected. She writes children’s books, health reflections, and the occasional blog post laced with humor and hard-won honesty. After years of illness, detours, and navigating the noise of modern wellness, she returned to writing with the firm belief that stories—like people—don’t have to be perfect to matter. She publishes under multiple pen names and drinks more goat milk than you’d expect.

Monday, April 20, 2015

NaPoWriMo Day 20

The prompt on the NaPoWriMo Facebook site was to let the theme "darkness and light" inspire a poem. A lot of my prior poetry (not necessarily published her) actually deals with that aspect. My interpretation of this theme is about addressing the darkness of humanity (others might call it social injustice, lack of enlightenment of society, rat-eat-rat mentality etc). Not necessarily writing a goth-style poem. Although, I have done that too.

For today's poem I used a word list to help me along.

Why does humanity fail?
Where would equality be
when freed from power and greed
instead of robbed of  redemption.
Violated manners, thoughtless betrayal
yield nothing but impatience
thoughtless hunger
fails to starve freedom.



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