Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Backward Glance

Sanaa offers quite the dVerse challenge today! Poetry utilizing the litote! A figure of speech; a rhetorical device used to make an understatement by negating the opposite of the intended message; in other words, a nice way to soften a blunt statement. I chose to write a narrative where the main character stands out.

Masks on Fire, March 25, 2022 ~~ Our driveway

I felt no remorse

no unrepentant guilt 

tossing what felt like 

hundreds of  

unused masks 

into that roaring fire!




Posted by Helen at 4:26 PM
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18 comments:

  1. AlexandraJanuary 3, 2024 at 7:32 PM

    Don't throw them away yet! (I thought this was going to be the ritual of the burning of negative notes for the new year, so it was a good twist)

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  2. JadeLiJanuary 3, 2024 at 9:14 PM

    Helen, great title, and I love that unrepentant flip into the flames!

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  3. Kim M. RussellJanuary 4, 2024 at 3:11 AM

    I’m holding onto my masks, Helen, which are patterned cotton ones, as we never know what is coming next. But I understand that feeling of no remorse.

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  4. GraceJanuary 4, 2024 at 4:11 AM

    I will throw away unusued stuff but maybe not the mask just yet. Love this energy and enthusiam Helen. Happy new year!!!

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  5. Yvonne OsborneJanuary 4, 2024 at 4:32 AM

    I've kept a couple, just in case!

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  6. Sanaa RizviJanuary 4, 2024 at 5:39 AM

    This is gorgeously rendered, Helen! I have kept a few (just in case) Love the tone and energy of this poem! Thank you so much for writing to the prompt ❤️❤️❤️

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  7. HelenJanuary 4, 2024 at 6:06 AM

    I hung onto all our N95 masks, I assure you! Flimsy paper into the flames.

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  8. Mariette VandenMunckhof-VedderJanuary 4, 2024 at 8:11 AM

    Dearest Helen,
    Don't need to burn masks as we both never adhered to that scam.
    Being micro biologists we know a little more about virus particles and such a mask is a laughable thing. Sure the sales of them have enriches others and they try to continue that way...
    https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2022/01/some-virus-facts-and-questions.html
    Hugs,
    Mariette

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  9. brudbergJanuary 4, 2024 at 11:40 AM

    There are some kind of masks that should be burned, but the kind in the picture I think I will hold onto.

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  10. DoraJanuary 4, 2024 at 11:54 AM

    And why should you?! Those ridiculous cloth masks were of no use anyway. This is a clarion call not to give in to mass hysteria and throw science out the window.

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  11. purplepeninportland.comJanuary 4, 2024 at 5:36 PM

    Burn, baby, burn!

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  12. Magaly GuerreroJanuary 5, 2024 at 7:26 PM

    I will probably always use masks in certain situations, at least for a while. But, oh yeah, it would feel sooo good to get rid of the damn things.

    I hope you are having a happy New Year!

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  13. Brother OllieJanuary 6, 2024 at 7:21 PM

    Yeah Helen - this is a passionate poem. Love it.

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  14. pvcann.comJanuary 8, 2024 at 7:33 AM

    I love the force of this, taking unrepentant action, go for it 😀

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  15. paeansunpluggedJanuary 9, 2024 at 7:48 AM

    I wish we could! But by jove, if I could I would do it your way, Helen! Love it.

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  16. Melissa LemayJanuary 10, 2024 at 3:09 PM

    They’re not in the landfill, so I’m all for it.

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I appreciate each of you and the comments you leave ~~ thanks so much.

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