Of Honor Killings and Curses

Whispering zephyrs secrets reveal The old village Banyan tries hard to conceal Underneath the cloak of stygian skies lay stories concealed from seeing eyes and floods of tears from forced goodbyes But time is the keeper of all tales blind yet partial to some details…

Hour 8: Home

This is a little bit of a story, a little it of a poem a little bit of my mom’s chai that I can never get right, a little bit of my dads books, those I always got right, but sometimes they would have really…

prompt 8: roc eggs gigan

They might have been eggs     pebbles of sodalite or chalcedony nestled within wooden cups        three and four to a family   It’s what they looked like: eggs lain by some prehistoric bird bright of wing and long of beak, legs drawn up like cranes do…

You and I (Hour 8)

You I Together in this world Facing all the goods And all the bads I Can’t Imagine any other way That I could live my life For You and I We may sometimes fight or drift But we always find our way back to each…

(7th hour picture prompt) Grandson

Everyone wishes for a grandson like you Someone brave and strong Someone true About you I have never been wrong You have always liked to jump Even after getting scolded on the rump Life is to live, laugh and play I know you will carry…

A 90s Type of Love (Hour 8)

That’s the way love goes,  transferring my negative energies into a divine connection. Sisters, you know the feeling on two occasions? That’s day and night I’d go for broke feeling. The weak in the knees type of love lasting long after the honeymoon. Cause when…

Hour 8 – Journey

Hour 8 – Journey   I would walk to the end of the world with you I don’t know where it starts or where it ends.   Any time of day or night, I’d be ready even if we got stuck along the way all…

Prompt Eight

  Wishful Thinking Like Wordsworth and the Lake Poets I wish to rusticate; leave the bustle and daily grind behind; the tiresome car alarms, the screaming children, the mournful howls of the dog two doors down. I wish to sit in a bower, framed with…

Thoughts Of Unrest – Half Marathon Post #8 (gigan)

Thoughts Of Unrest You scream, “Revolution!” at the top of your lungs Have you lived through one? Do you understand what it will do to your life, the lives of others? Have you really thought it through? Neighbor against neighbor, house to house Betrayals and…

12 Bird Poems

IX. The Mullen is tall, delphinium in bloom, Echinacia about to flower and the Hummingbird shuns the feeder for authentic nectar.   Busy summer garden days interrupted to sit and watch Bird joy, stillness, mediative.   Out of myself and what has to be done,…