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Category: Marathon Poem
A Promise
I’d like to begin with a confession: I am not an expert in love.* In fact I am not an expert on many things. I can’t sing. I can’t dance. I struggle with rhyming. But I am willing to try. To try my best. To…
Eighteenth poem
Be you, your true heart Actions speak louder than words Just follow your soul
you can’t have your cake and eat it too
“Why not?!” She cried in a thousand ways, “I’ve paid my dues, I’ve challenged the days There’s plenty of cake sitting on my plate So why must I swallow the shadows I hate?”
A new season arising
“I am going out to clean the pasture spring” from “An Invitation The Pasture “ Robert Frost’s Poem by Louis Untermeyer a new season arising just like springtime in our lives encountering and enriching forever refreshing and ever inflaming in our hearts moving…
Granny from Salem
There once was a Granny from Salem Who peeled all potatoes and ate um She liked them to be mashed And served with corn beefed hash There was never a need to save um by Karen Sullivan Format: Limerick
Sestina sex
Feel my gentle caress, my fingertips of lust. As you slowly undress, I could nearly combust. Teasing what I obsess, making your body thrust. Yet as your hips thrust, to this tender caress. I feel your heart combust, stopping your undress. Now your eyes…
Proverbs
He who stands on toilet Is said to be High on Pot And water, when you heat it, Won’t boil if it’s watched They say April showers Bring Bushes and flowers In the merry merry month of May If an apple can keep the…
Poem #19
These little poems Are fun. Especially for This marathon thing.
Demons
Late at night, my flaws shine bright. They magnify and become permanent convictions. Conditions, Apparitions. Devotations. Why can’t I wake and do, act, think, look as I want? Wish my worries and flaws away. Wish them away very hard. Almost pray. Don’t waste a prayer…