Two wanderers stop where the dirt paths merge She is coy, curious; He is brave, bold Eyes catch and fall ignorant to the sun winking behind the trees He, from the East and Her, the West seek out the North and South but carelessness has…
Category: Half Marathon Poem
Hour Seven
What is Love So much that the poets Have debated, Ancient song lyrics All have joined in to ask, Not a answer amongst them… Just another question to ask. What is Love More than a debate On human nature, Emotions, and understanding Time…
What Is Love? [Hour 10: 2023, Half Marathon] – Prompted
Love… The root and bane of existence; What is Love?… Courage and persistence, Purification, Motivation, in the face of Resistance. Blink and you’ll miss it – some hold, others wish it. Love is Truth; and Truth is Verity. Love is the Star – the…
prompt #10 — what is love
What is love, my son once asked me You said it lasts forever. But Uncle John left cousin Daniel And Aunt Jane. Will Daddy leave us? Never, I replied to my son. Yet, what is love but grief postponed? Death will part us all, no…
2023 Poetry Marathon — Hour #10 — Haiku
Hot mug warms fingers Aromas soothe the senses Tea on a brisk day
Vacation (Hour Ten, Photo Prompt)
The mountains are majestic, the cow mooed as to agree, I could not ask on vacation for better company. A photo to remember when our gaze did meet, A vacation in the mountains, it really can’t be beat. Photo by Andrew Shaughnessy
prompt 10: I remember in highways
I remember in highways what is love but remembrance and I remember in highways… in moments on lines, like beads moving on thread, strung to make pictures from pixels of glass. I remember in fragments of myself, in pointillist pops of colour against light…
Hour 10 – The Cow
I rub my eyes and struggle to free myself from those moments between sleep and awake. I hear it again, but I know this time that I am truly awake. It is the sound of a cow right outside my window. I don’t own…
Empty Spaces
Hour Ten The fans are all gone, the game is over, the silence rings throughout. Seagulls and crows pick through the overflowing garbage from cans insufficient to their cause. Peanut shells and popcorn bags, drink cups and wrappers, remnants of a family outing to the…
The Last Cow #10
She stood on the green grass at the edge of the world, one step backwards from the icy precipice.