Hour 24: Villanelle

Never lose hope in better days, It helps us through the darkest times, Dreaming with your eyes open with your faith on display,   Blessed you are, count the ways, Don’t fall into the emotional traps, Never lose hope in better days,   Hope reminds…

Hour20

Don’t tell me what to do, I can’t bear it and You know it well! Just fill my void! If you can…

Hour 21 : Running

Running through the pages of haves and have-nots, promising in the mother tongue, escaping the reality, dreams are filled with the sequences of running.  

Everyday Villainy

Time is a thief that keeps taking us by surprise. Or hiding key aspects of what it knows about us and what we keep forgetting. Schedules are fuel to burn. Intentions a Super Highway of high-speed chases that never get on the news. I’d like…

To the Nurse Who Held my Son

The nurse who held my son all day when he was going to leave the hospital I wonder if she was thinking about me or the adoptive parents who would be arriving that day to take my son home with them   I wonder if…

2023 Poem Twenty One

Estrangement noun. A state of separation in hopes everyone involved takes inventory of their life. The act of giving up hope of a better past. A time of question if the choices I made were right or if I could have done better. A firm…

Hour19

Is she whimsical like the weather? Does she hug and kiss as I did? Is your new lover better in any way? It’s over! But can I have a last kiss from your sweet and sour lips? 💋

It’ll Be Okay

Darkness is safe when the light goes dull Darkness is a comfort when the noise pounds against your skull Darkness is an abyss, a void for ever falling through Darkness is where, to most, hope no longer grew But darkness embraces you with cold arms…

LONGING (hour xxiv)

There is something profound about expectation when it visits you and takes a dispirited seat in your living room, even as the air heats with trepidation It’s like a shield, towering high up the roof sitting in serenity like a canopy of glittering clouds swollen…

Fleas (prompt 24)

Only a flea of hope.. ‘But fleas ain’t easy to rid’ -Meronym, Cloud Atlas faithfulness and resilience may just be strong genetic tendencies like what you’d see in certain breeds of dogs definition in specific areas they drive me pull me against my will at…

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