The ghost has returned At the window he shows You believe him to be gone He knows, he watched you grow His patience not outmanoeuvered He knows what you are thinking for tomorrow He has to win each night Beg to him, cry, he knows…
Category: Marathon Poem
(Hour 13) 10.30-11.30am. TEXT PROMPT: profession description, humorous x2
I enjoyed this prompt (after initially disliking the thought of it). It was supposed to be about *yourself* but I ended up doing one for each of my 2 main characters. Very satisfying. Ryan: an abridged Resume the woman : who seems to lead…
2023 Poem One
I had a bunch of tech issues this morning so I wrote a bunch of connected haikus while waiting for the router to reset WIFI, why must you foresee me like this in the time I needed you most? Laptop, why is now the moment…
Brooklyn baby
A world between worlds, encapsulated in so many films & series over the years. But what does it mean to so many people? Hope pleasure joy community. That’s how we measure the worth of anything, by what the huddled masses have to say,…
Days Begin and End
A perfect way to begin the day, I pray to GOD ALMIGHTY I extend my arms and open my hands and submit to the Man upstairs. It’s the perfect way to end the day I pray to GOD AlMIGHTY.
Little Boy
You amaze me little boy with all the things you do like an architect you build castles and space ships like a painter you dabble in abstract forms and colors like a race car driver you never give up till you win. You amaze me…
Hour 5 Chugging Along With Writing
Woot woot getting some thoughts down! Hour 5 Some days or maybe all days I feel like an option That everyone I love Only sometimes asks for me I’m like a side salad when they have fries Or I’m peanuts on a sundae…
Really steamed (Prompt 13)
One of my high school students wrote an essay about her older, in college sister extolling the virtues of her sibling role model she proclaimed the ‘most important’ aspect of positive modeling was her sister’s adherence to ethics that boosted her ‘self of steam’ Reading…
Put me in a movie
It’s where our imaginations come to life & nothing is out of the realm of possibility. Whether hunting down criminals in a depraved metropolis or seeking buried treasure in the jungles of the galapagos, there’s a little something for everybody. It’s a blank canvas…
Hour 13 (after Dr. Theodore Seuss)
Would you like to give your time? I do not like it, Dexta-I-fear. I do not like to volunteer. Would you like to volunteer here or there? I would not like to here or there. I would not like to anywhere. I do not like…