We are almost there! Hang on. Do what you need to do to get through these next two hours. The prompt this hour is to write a poem about a place. It should be a place you know very well because you have been there…

She came from the forest. I don’t know how long she sat At the edge of my camp, Staring at me as I wrote in the near dark of dusk. My computer lit my face. Must have looked so strange To a wild cat. I…

Every mother says “My baby is awake for most of the night”. The cries begin just as I get ready to go to bed. Slowly, the baby is trained by the rule ‘The Night is for Sleeping’ When children ask ‘Why is there a distinction…

The words had deep meaning and Right intent as they left the student They travelled across the distance of continent wide Mind to mind. Student know not if the master will read the message for there was no response The teaching now is concentrated in…

In the peace and the silence of the deeps of the night I find it in me to again trust with full contentment not fretting of the future and its shadowy fears Trusting In the Lord my God My emotions still on mute at this…

We have all been there We’ve all had our share of shit But it gets better Don’t be a sweater. Just hit If you can just see What you’re meant to be Your grit

At the diner at 4 a.m., cheesecake and coffee the brew so dusty sweet and the cake real ricotta. At the diner, we’d talk after the bars close and the beer wore off, and eat French fries or eggs and put dimes in the table…

There once was a girl who was a slob Who left home to go work at her job. Her dad was so wry About her pig sty And now it’s been condemned by a snob

Its pure Maroon Curtains are hung in every room The house looks bright Curtains seems right.   There length is long Like the hours she spends at home The color is dark Like the nights she survived alone   They seem mysterious Like the secrets…

heartbreakers   oh … the list is too long those heartbreakers in the beginning my mothers the first one who left the second one who lied assisted by those fathers the first one invisible the second one long gone next came deceased pets roadkill kitten…