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Apologetic Space Worm

Posted on April 9, 2025April 8, 2025 by alexis

Please do forgive me,I’m a worm in space,caught amongst the stars,the void is my place.I do therefore say,with much sad regret,it was by mistake,your ship, I digest.

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Choose Your Own Murderer

Posted on April 8, 2025April 8, 2025 by alexis

I’m excited to introduce a new idea, so let’s see how this goes! I want to tell a “Choose Your Own Adventure” story with you, my reader. Except in this version, it will be a “Choose Your Own Murderer” story. How it works: Every couple of weeks (or as often as I can manage), I will…

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Find Me on Substack

Posted on December 20, 2024December 20, 2024 by alexis

I’m now on substack! Subscribe to me there to get the latest news, blogs, short stories, fantasy-inspired cocktail recipes and more. https://alexisveenendaalauthor.substack.com

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Creature

Creature in Crocs

Posted on October 1, 2024October 3, 2024 by alexis

A Shel Silverstein-inspired poem about a weird creature who likes to wear crocs.

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Where Did Grandpa’s Hair Go?

Posted on September 29, 2023September 24, 2023 by alexis

A short poem about a grandkid wondering why grandpa is bald.

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That’s That

Posted on September 24, 2023 by alexis

A short poem about superstition.

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Photo by Blaque X: https://www.pexels.com/photo/underwater-photography-of-deep-sea-932638/

Beneath the Waves

Posted on June 20, 2023 by alexis

A ship to sail
upon the sea,
with wind, be caught
and follow thee…

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Dig

Posted on April 10, 2023April 10, 2023 by alexis

If idyllic plots areplots of land andhouses built onsinking sand arenot as good aswalls of stoneand timber fallsbut castles stand(except for thosewhose walls are sand)then I might sleepquite sweet tonightwhere down six feetI’ll dig my site

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Wilt

Posted on November 1, 2022 by alexis

Wilt, oh petal,
breathe no more
of sun and sky
and cease your chore
to branch and leaf
in cloudless sky,
to mark a stone
in black to cry.

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Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/beach-black-and-white-clouds-dawn-414491/

Song of the Storm

Posted on June 30, 2022 by alexis

Storm of winter
clouds of night,
break o’er the crashing
waves of fright
and bring the cleansing
rains of tide
to waken us
in sleeping, hide.

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