There is something ugly spawned a life in the corner Eight legged memories Each one with a bite
Category: Marathon Poem
Dear Hank
Dear Charles Bukowski, You are my favorite drunk, poetic bastard You gambled with women and I heard your breath reeked of cigarettes and whiskey I am writing to you, you see Mr. Bukowski I used to write poetry to get into girls pants I settled…
Hour 12
Wow its a Panic When you are in a canopy Going through the trees Jumping in a Jeep Heading straight for the moon They saw glory through The eyes of a lion. copyright 2016 Roxann A Harvey
A Couple’s Blessing
Through wind and rain, treacherous weather A couple stands bound together. Only the maker of thunder, May render this couple asunder. I call to you both the same, Be virtuous, go far, and keep your fame. Wandering is over, the world is wide You are…
Tomato
The most unnatural thing has happened Through a crack in my wall, on an area slightly blackened something green, something tiny has nestled It has fought, battled and struggled A tiny plant peeps peeps out each morning As I leave my house, wishing me goodmorning!…
RATION YOUR PASSION!
As if. The wheel of life, unstuck from the sucking swamp of despair, shaken into life, overshoots and blazes in the sky. Cover up! Don’t be so conspicuous! Nothing good will come from running away down the slope to crash and burn out of control….
(Hour 14) 11.30am-12.30pm. PROMPT, genre: “nature poem, with a twist”
This is the first few lines of a famous nature poem, put through the ring cycle of Google Translate (English to Esperanto to Bulgarian to Spanish to Arabic to Urdu to Afrikaans to German to Zulu to Yiddish back to a sort of English to…
Missing
They turn their head the other way look back again to see her play Where is she? Where did she go? They turn their head for a moment nowhere to show! They screamed her name time and time again! No where to find her A…
Hour 11
Its my dream to see the stars My dream my dream my dream Just look at me now I am a big deal was put me in a box like a rectangle Left to suffer and die But faith had another destiny My dream my…
You can’t control me
You think you can tell me what to do? You can’t control me. Even if you hold a gun to my head, You can’t control me. You can bark at me until the cows come home but You can’t control me. Do your worst, asshole,…