The Poetry Marathon

The sun is shining

finally

Been kinda overcast for days.

The sun is shining

in my heart

after much indecision.

The sun is shining

from above

fighting dark clouds

Shining sun is love.

I see this ending before it starts.

My thumb hurts already.

Probably need surgery

find out next week.

Don’t worry, I’m in it for 12 hours.

I’m here to write and discover.

This is such a wonderful experience.

I don’t even tell my family,

less chance they will find something for me to do.

My husband and son are working (carpenters)

My daughter is house and dog sitting

So I am home with our cat,

but my muse is missing.

I’m ready to go. I’m posting like I’ve done in past poetry marathons. The more I read about how to do it the more confused I get. I am not at all technologically inclined. The first time I did the marathon I surprised myself. So good luck to all.

5 ingredients are:

quiet time, to reflect

time together, unity

reflection, for what could have happened but didn’t, so it’s good

time to listen,shows I care

time to take action, in some way.

I thought I posted this yesterday but cannot find it so here it is

Mom-

influential to me

and many more I was unaware of

She is gone now, May 1

Tributes and memories have filled

my FB feed

Wow!

I never knew it mattered

meals on time, every day

the house cleaner than even she realized

as if she had standards to meet.

It took me a long time to be comfortable where I am

Without you I’m lost

with you I’m not

I’d rather be

together

forever.

The end of a rainbow

somewhere there is a pot of gold

at the end of the rainbow they say

I’ve searched and searched

found nothing

I can see the rainbow ends here

no pot of gold anywhere.

Persistence

if I lose

I’ll go on

with or without

I’ll go on

firefly, bottle, mask, zoom, treeline, heat, strange, cottage

A firefly

trapped in a bottle

strange sight

in a treelined cottage

far far away from

any civilization

A poem about practice

Practice is important

it makes you better

improving tolerance and ability

repetition is a good teacher

a teacher of increased diligence