Forgive me, love. I feel you pacing, your feet wearing a path back to the past Only to have the present creep in with each dawn. Forgive me, love. I hear the little hiccup-sobs you try to hide in the folds of your pillow Tucked away…
Category: Marathon Poem
Hour 02 – Where we were
I Watch Her Grow – Part 1 My child, it seems your journey’s now begun; I pray your choices are better than mine. You’re not alone, I’ll help you walk that line, For in my dreary world you are the sun. Sometimes in life you’ll…
A Man
A man seeks to keep his love under an arm’s distance a gun shot’s trajectory invisible line across an isolating barren sea– beauty– as a man is wont to do protect his own by killing the barriers out there– outside without opening, closed bloom. And…
Silenced Love
In silence we sit, feeding off the energy of each other, no words spoken, no words needed, words complicate things, so many words to our relationship, many descriptors, “I don’t like labels,” but other people do, and same-sex love is labeled, regulated as: lesbian, gay,…
Chorus
Shout a new slogan! Shout loud for all to hear, never forgetting its jingle and being proud of its appeal. Declare it everywhere, shouting over and over loudly! Yet, truth is constant, quiet, sober, and gentle.
Not two
we all walking similar rocks sitting on same rocks Moving through space hand in hand Interdependently we are not two
I Cross the Sea
I cross the sea of uncertainty and calamity I cross the sea hoping to find me New horizon stretched out in front With excitement and anxiety I cross the sea New adventures many new faces Armed with courage and feeling free I cross the sea…
Heather
On this planet right now, seven billion people are living their lives. In the cubicle next to mine, a woman is living hers. She comes to work every day and then goes home to play. She likes to travel on the weekends and party when…
10 am
In the morning I went about life coffee, laundry, reading – completely unaware that the world was ending. In the evening, I fell and fell deeper into the nothingness of the chasm that opened without warning beneath me. Somewhere between those pinpoints of time, the…
(Hour 02) 11.30-12.30am. PROMPT, song: “Ben Howard – I forget where we were”
where we were you pointed your gun at the sea, at the sand at me. said love was invincible. pretended everything was a blast. so why did it all end … in a flash of brilliant bright light & cordite’s bitter stink