“Fluffy clouds, In the sky, How many forms do you take? Oh, fluffy clouds, Every year you cry, Bringing us rain and water, Filling our rivers and lakes to the brim.   Oh, fluffy clouds, Please don’t be angry with us, Your anger brings us…

Hour 10  Prompt 10 Epiphany   Epiphany is one of the big three Christian holidays.  It was a big reveal to us. It was then we Christians  first knew, really knew that Jesus was both human  and the Son of God, though some believe him…

My dreams are drying on a clothesline that’s begun to look a lot like barbed wire. Shrunken dreams, had they dried, would have been ripped to shreds at the hands of time. We are but puppets, and according to Shakespeare, this world is but a…

Flowing gently like a stream Flowing gently like a dream Flowing gently like a wind Flowing gently like a film Flowing gently like a feather Flowing gently like a cream

Hour 9, Prompt 17, Year 2021 It’s lunch break and as always She sits by herself in the empty classroom She reaches in her bag for her lunch box, then her book And then she remembers what she promised her mother She pauses, panics a…

I feel the pull, hear the siren call Of books that push me into free fall, No sense of fear, or time or place In ocean abyss or the depths of space. I meet mercenaries, tyrants, a bloody pirate Delve into a psychotic mind and…

Hr. 5 Prompt 22, 2016 Sitting here writing Making my mark You can laugh I did, it’s late Should be sleeping But here I sit Writing poems all night I must be nuts Pencil to paper Mind thinking My honey’s upset Night is for sleeping

The wind rustling and fluttering and singing Roaring and howling and sleeping Cooling, mesmerizing, eternal Granting life, spirit, a kernel Sprouting life and beauty   Breezing past You Left me behind I listened in sighs and murmurs But could not find That echo of your…

  Hour 9 Prompt 9   A Stitch in Time Saves Nine   Stitches. You know, those things that happen when you thread a needle and then draw it  through some fabric. If you have a tiny hole,  mend it fast. If the button is…

Hour 8 Prompt 8   The Older Sibling   As the older sibling I felt responsible for my younger brother. My mother didn’t tell me I was responsible, but as we walked  to school every day, just the two of us, I was responsible. Then…