Poetic form: Cascade As the peacock spreads his feathers in joy By dancing to the tune of the light drizzle Encompassing the air around, with his twirl The peahens watch, impressed by the beauty The spectators learn how to celebrate life As the peacock spreads…
Category: Marathon Poem
#4
Enjoy life live simply Take time listen Really listen What do you hear? A small child’s voice rain on the roof wind in the trees life… Yes you can hear life and all the events it bestows on us Because that is life.
Poem 1 – Element
Hide it Throw dirt Ignore it It’s done Back in the earth Where it came from The wind Speaks Asking Why I don’t want to answer I don’t want to lie Burning Wood The fires Alight As darkness descends I feel the cool night I…
2017 – Hour Four
Watch her run Accelerating So determined Never waiting Watch her run Self-assured Her tracker record So far, endured Watch her run Campaigning strong Serve the people Right the wrong Watch her run See her fall Unprepared To lose it all
hour 4 Apple and Peanut Butter is a Basic Comfort Food
O4 2017 Poetry Marathon peanut butter and apple prompt 4 stanza poem Apple and Peanut Butter is a Basic Comfort Food. by Paul Sanford Apple and Peanut Butter is a basic comfort food. Twist open the lid on the good stuff, all peanuts with nothing…
Thinking of a metaphor
Thinking of a metaphor As the sea awaits the shore, But the winds carried a storm So I just wrote “grapes are sour” Thinking of a metaphor As the wound cherish the sore But the heartbeat left the body So I just wrote “…
To Reopen a Wound (Hour 4)
So often does he never mean to play the fool, But he can only build what will come from such simple hands. And his failure is found often, and too often found cruel, For it is only in this pattern that he finally understands. Pursued…
They will first ask you to shrink 4/24
They will first ask you to shrink and then to shiver and then to speak. And once you’ve shrunken, they will ask you to grow. Once you have grown, they will stare at your changes and ask why no one ever stays the same.
4 – JOURNEYS END –
I rush to your grave. A fool looking for love. That can never come again. I kiss your cold lips, goodbye. The sky has cried its coldest rain. I kiss your cold lips goodbye. I cover your face in a shroud of love. Then…
Is Anybody Listening
Words I long to say Feelings that betray Truths, found here and there Dying without expression Lingering, echoing Words I long to say Afraid to feel that way Dying without expression Afraid to feel that way The past reverberating Is anybody listening Lingering,…