God Waited From the day we met, the stars always knew, one day, a lonely womb would meet its match. We buckled up and drove small mountain roads to watch our city glow. But as we went we didn’t know an empty tomb stood…
Category: Half Marathon Poem
Hour #14 (Random Prompt taken from hour 2, 2022)
Inspired by leonard cohen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVvNpcX5HQ Burning Desire. Random Prompt Hour #14 You look my way my hair stands all over, smiling in my direction with your playful gaze strips me naked off my yearning. Baby I pine for you. Oh, we’re…
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Hour 2 – A Close Encounter
Crow and the fox Old lady was frying vadas(1) in the open Crispy, golden brown makes your mouth water Hungry as she was, a crow dived down like a bomber The best looking vada it snatched Settling on the boughs of a mango tree The…
Our Rain Picks Up
How do we know that wind chimes scattered in the wind always signal storms?
There is poetry that spills out of you like curse words when you stub your toe on the leg of the bed. There is poetry that is written slowly, methodically, over years, as you grow and learn and age and it will be perfect then….
How I Wish
How I Wish your red truck would have barreled across gravel roads, straight to me. Your headlights would have shined blinding beams to my skyward eyes. Your seats would have held breathing bodies hot with kisses. Your hands would have waved, have held, have…
Accustomed Appetite – Hour 9/Prompt 9, 2022
“Opening Closing” “Opening Closing” “Opening Closing” Playing hide and seek with the cookie that rests in an airtight jar. Don’t you feel suffocated? Let me give you a home in my tummy, but then would you also betray me like my mother? I cannot fit…
Hour 12: Prompt 12: House full of love
I don’t mingle well with others I don’t gather well in groups I dont function well in crowds And I don’t participate well in large activities But what I do well in is filling my home with love For the very few people I allow…
Magical Moment – Hour 12
I heard your call before you appeared mystical bird of the north. Your haunting, plaintive song echoed across the still lake. Striking a regal pose, head held high, in formal black and white attire, your doppelgänger perfectly reflected in the water. You called…