Electoral Choices: a #Renga Soliloquy #Quadrille

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Election day …

In the blink of an eye

we seal our fate

 

Will it be a wink and nod

or a cold, steady gaze?

 

So many years

since Palin’s famous wink …

Election day

 

Is a steady gaze

enough?

 

 

for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #68 (pubtended by De Jackson)

 

and my own current #haikai challenge!

 

 

 

 

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26 responses to “Electoral Choices: a #Renga Soliloquy #Quadrille”

  1. Janice Avatar

    Love this 🙂

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  2. rothpoetry Avatar

    A really good one Frank! We really do seal our fate with our vote… or lack of it!

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    1. Frank J. Tassone Avatar

      Indeed, Dwight. Thanks!

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  3. Arcadia Maria Avatar

    I like this take on the prompt.

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  4. jazzytower Avatar

    We shall all see, right! Nice take Frank.

    pat

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  5. qbit Avatar

    Well penned. Gee, hard even to remember Sarah Palin now! And we thought *that* was nutty!

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    1. Frank J. Tassone Avatar

      Hahaha! So true! Thanks! 🙂

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  6. Grace Avatar

    Go out and vote. It may make a difference.

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    1. Frank J. Tassone Avatar

      Indeed! Thanks, Grace! 🙂

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  7. Frank Hubeny Avatar

    I almost forgot about Palin.

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  8. V.J. Knutson Avatar

    There’s a collective breath holding happening right now. Well said, Frank.

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  9. kanzensakura Avatar

    I told my husband tonight that those who do not vote, elect the winners.

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  10. Gina Avatar

    we went through the same in May this year, no one dared blink or wink for fear of tampering.

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  11. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) Avatar

    and since you’re such a big nation it affects the world…

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  12. De Miller Jackson Avatar
    De Miller Jackson

    A timely thought, indeed. Well done!

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  13. Vivian Zems Avatar

    I wish a steady gaze was enough ….. good one👍🏽

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  14. purplepeninportland Avatar

    Beautifully written, Frank!

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  15. Mish Avatar

    I wish I could add a vote from Canada. …when it becomes a global issue.

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  17. Rob Kistner Avatar
    Rob Kistner

    Hi Frank! I enjoyed reading your poem here. Well written, and engaging… I find myself in a steady daze… 🙂

    …rob from Image & Verse

    My “wink”

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