It’s not easy to write a poem now I have struggled throughout the morn It is almost completed, yay The ending is nearing friends It has gone well enough Will I be back? I sure hope next year lock
Category: Half Marathon Poem
Hour 11 – Messes are not Monsters
The truth is sometimes jarring. We can sometimes be a mess. But messes are not monsters. So please stop ripping out your chest.
Poems at pride
When I dance I express myself. When I’m depressed I detest myself. When I’m drunk When I’m stoned When I’m living When I’m boned When I’m stroking A mans mustache When I’m eating Alone When I’m biking Or hiking Or tryna get Toned. When I’m…
Aquifer Song
Aquifer Song pressure over time, I form porous, deep within earth’s womb my gravel vessels cradle a million year snowmelt I swallow raindrops descending beads seep soil form my pools in earth’s underbelly I quench longing of the ages my infinite elixir cleanse…
Prompt Eleven (managed to use 6 words of 10)
For How Long? Pricked by the needle of a pandemic, society sequestered – periwinkle skies above each skyscraper, like salient exclamation marks, signalling just how much our air needed purifying Fewer cars, to none, meant the earth could inhale, could beat her heart loudly –…
Love Doesn’t Wait For the Morning
Love Doesn’t Wait for the Morning What? Trying it on for size? Trying to act surprised that touching someone unlike you feels so nice. You’re guessing again and it’s so simple my friend. When loves comes, it never knocks twice – It just…
Lab Report
Lab Report After school I took the stairs up to the third floor, the chemistry lab, to finish the project. The hall was empty this late and I was the only student in the classroom. I mixed what I had to mix, wrote down results….
NIGHT WANDERING
With the cold wind that is felt and the dew of the petals shimmer While the birds are in the mood I wander leisurely in the cold The pavement-noise echoes the scented flowers scream I wander alone leisurely as if in a dream The drizzle…
Gulliver’s Table, Reimagined
Hour 3, Prompt 11, Year 2021 It’s a warm summer day in Lilliput The perfect day to use yellows Gulliver splashes some yellow on white Picks up his straw and blows Behold! A beautiful canvas Just a shape of yellow Simple, like the Lilliputians themselves…
7 pm – “Let Me Listen to My Block”
Summer days on the block Are meant for Sundresses, Smart mouths, Nutcrackers & Smiles. High noon heat Has the music blasting Papi’s anthem while playing dominos sweating as much as my bottled drink It is home. Can you feel it? Street veins burst with water…