In this flat setting, humans, like letters, stand out. Perspective accounts are being written all throughout the country. Settlements are like punctuation marks where lives collide, like the rivers and mountains, the ancient ink of the Earth. Huge oceans, and an ink-black sea, shroud a multitude…

I remember this day with grief, a great contradiction. A part of me is bound for every year I become older. With each passing hour, I bid farewell to the embrace of youth. To commemorate this birthday, I grieve the loss of my previous flower….

Prompt 12 – Closet   The Closet   The closet is where his clothes hang his favourite dinosaur T-shirts his favourite shorts too. Stuffed teddys sit on top guarding it watching over him, from time to time he’ll check for monsters kids imaginations can run…

Leaves sweep down from trees, covering the ground below, creating piles of mingled colors. Oranges, browns, and red become a beautiful palette for the beginning of Fall’s artistry. Shortened days give way to crisp, cooler air, making jackets and sweaters come out from closets. Coffee,…

Hello from Alberta, Canada! Joining for the second half-marathon — also my second time, after 2022 — and hoping that it might still count, although I’m in the hemisphere where the first 12 hours were the ones filled with daylight. I had originally planned to…

Why do I always do this to myself? Scary movie onscreen, my pick for the evening, but I’m the one hiding my face and closing my eyes. Most of the time it isn’t the images that bother me, but the noise. Surely some of that…

Prompt 11 – Extraordinary   A new Pen   The invention of a pen that writes down what you’re thinking, would be cool   Imagine if it also corrected grammar itself, a scary thought   As cool as it is it would take away basic…

I’m Nupur, joining from India. A mother of 5 year old twins, I’m a freelance content writer. My poems are usually short.

Prompt 10 – What is love   What is Love   Well, love hurts, some people can’t help falling in love, they make it their love story, at the end of the day all you need is love, once I was crazy in love, after…

Prompt 9 – Five Words (Jacket, Bucket, tremor, elbow, Lightbulb)   True Story   Along he came with a high vis jacket on, then came another and another begging the question, how many men does it take to change a lightbulb? Arms on the hips,…