Instigate

A Poem Challenge

I read the poem by Bob Jasper cusing the challenge word: Prevaricate. He then added his own challenge word: Instigate to the chain, and I thought why not. So, here we go.

Push my buttons one by one, until the world begins to spin.

Jam the red one, the flashing red one, let’s see where that one might begin

I’m not a fearful one, not an open one I live somewhere in between,

Don’t call me subtle, or get an instant rebuttal I’m not in the mood to instigate.

If you’re laughing I will join you; if you’re crying, I will soothe you; If you tremble, I will move you — then we’ll Start again.

Push that button, that flashing red button, ’til the need to control — evaporates.

I’d like to add a new word to the challenge — Amare.

Have fun with it. Tagging those who were tagged before. Hope to hear from you. 😊

Rasheed Hooda, Sherry McGuinn Timothy Key Eli Snow Selma Amy Marley Caroline de Braganza Dipti Pande Harley King Joanne Troppello🌻 John C Davis Mary Holden R Tsambounieri Talarantas Riku Arikiri 🕊️ Wolfie Bain Chris Hedges Paul Myers MBA P.G. Barnett Annelise Lords Simran Kankas Carolyn Riker

Joe Luca is writer and editor for ILLUMINATION and a published author and writer of children’s stories, short fiction, non-fiction articles, screenplays and poetry. Publications include Child’s Life, Children’s Playmate and others. There are some other articles below — have a read. And thank you for stopping by.