Waiting for days everyone waits, patiently or impatiently everything is waiting farmers, gardeners, workers crops, lawns, gardens, Finally. First, I shiver, just a bit — it is just a bit cooler. The sun has nodded off, the clouds no longer white puff balls. Something…
Category: Half Marathon Poem
Nine O’Clock AM
I open the front door.The air is already hot, humid, close. A watery sun barely makespatches of light on the greentrees overhead before it’s gone.In a fallen brown magnolia leaf A few drops of rain have puddled. Adamp patch outside the door and theblack car…
Learning to Float/ Hour 1
Inhale deep, lean back Lapping water clogs my ears Lift legs from slippery lake floor Father’s hands hover a cradle beneath me Enveloped in water Tilt chin to blue sky arms spreads wide, a water angel “I won’t let you go.” …
The Tide (Poetry Marathon 2022 Hour 1)
Tide (2022 Hour 1) We spent too much time Sitting on the beach Soaking in the sun Sprayed by salt As the waves licked the shore More a bay than an ocean Large enough for the tides To be controlled by the moon And swept…
But What About The Raindrops?
Write a poem about being in water. It can be about swimming, the shower, a bath, the rain, etc. On my bucket list Is an item or two That has to do with water Shall I share them with you? A walk-in bathtub Sitting…
In the desert
Months elapse without rain and the sun blazes over us, unrelenting. The air is dense and crackling dry. We search the sky for clouds, for any hope of change, but the deep blue is painfully endless. Birds huddle in shady patches in the sand, their…
Hour One: Surrender
Surrender (Hour One) The wave crests and crashes down upon me crushing me in its curl and I am engulfed, immersed, overwhelmed by its strength, unable to emerge unable to call out unable to surface unable to breathe, churning twirling tossed to and fro. No…
Esli
I already dreamed that this happened And now, it’s happening again Not a dream that you’d want to have, a dream of quite literally doing the dishes The problem arises when you set birds for your alarm clock It would be nice to even have…
2022 Poetry Marathon, Hour 1
Hour One poems, from the prompts.
Re-POST: Watery Dream (Prompt One 2022)
In the right place this time! I am out of practice of posting on wordpress. May have posted in wrong place. Watery Dream I dreamt of water . . . again. I dreamt of her . . . again. It was flowing over my feet….