To the dumb, impulsive, impressionable me From 10 years ago.. Get it together, girl! You gotta go, keep moving on The world won’t give you time to breathe Nor does it do that favour to anyone else So get it together girl! Make your own…
Category: Marathon Poem
Protected: Over You – H2
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Prompt 2, untitled
2 if I thought about it at all ten years ago it was as some nearly invisible ladder whose bottom rung I couldn’t quite reach despite my best attempts, and I read books and wrote words and hid them away and cooked for myself and…
Hour 2 – the less we say about it the better
the less we say about it the better a golden shovel after lyrics by David Byrne mum i sit, the world less rational. we cascade. you say don’t worry about it. but it is alarming. the end won’t be better
Poem for Hour Two (2/24)
Upturned Avocet like it’s always asking questions, Proud Shoveler like it has something to say. Opulent King Eider with a face fit for royalty, Cumbrous Surf Scoter with an expression of surprise. Goofy Black Skimmer and its penchant for fishing, Lovable Roseate Spoonbill and its…
(Hour 02) 11.30-12.30am. TEXT PROMPT, POV of self from 10 years ago
The Last Day Stella Saw Daddy Mummy & Daddy yelling Again again always Always always yelling Daddy’s breath smells Mummy crying Daddy says bad words Lots of loud bad words Pushes Mummy over Daddy lets the door bang I get told off if I do…
“Use Your Strengths”
Text Prompt: View of myself ten years ago Using “Daiku Form”= A haiku with a Diane twist. Three presented here. Remaining hopeful, as my spirit keeps flying. Believing is hard. Remaining hopeful. Keeping my head above frays. Yes, a greater good. Remaining hopeful, despite those that…
#Prompt 2 – 2023
Career Paths Climb the ladder that doesn’t exist On the imaginary wall to your future Precarious steps Each fraught with dangerous The rungs greasy The top hidden from sight The assent unrealistic The ultimate goal too often unachievable [Inspired by the image]
Hour 1 – Cloak
“This is how she found us/ the past draped about us like a cloak” –Diana Khoi Nguyen When history had not been made yet, when the outcome was nothing but a thought, a raindrop of potential, not even a probability, but a possibility still….
2013
New Year’s party Taking shots Liquor gliding smoothly Through a tunnel of clear ice In a gym Where 70 year old Marta Learned to do pull ups And lift 150 A time when Deep wounds Left scars And clouds of uncertainty Of middle age Nebulous…