Envy ((7 words/7 lines)) By: LuvMiFreely You often search for failure in others Because you’re ashamed of your own life You feel they don’t deserve to have better Because your life is full of regrets Tearing down people’s dreams because yours failed Must be a…
Category: Marathon Poem
Prompt 16
42 A perfect number The natural progression from forty-one Feathers on a thrush Time through the centre of the earth The number of laws in cricket Illustrations in wonderland The sum of the first six positive even numbers The ultimate question of life What is…
#7
I sit here camouflaged against the yard. I’m bright yellow and blend with the flowers. Food is near seed and butterfly flowers. I’m lucky for this vast menu.
Poem 16. Dancing Past the Ecliptic
Being breathless now no responsibilities I rarely feel her. A Raggedy Anne doll jumped into view recently in a gift shop in the SFO airport, let me know she was close by. She felt light and lovingly curious. She felt whole. Free. Tell me, Mom,…
Prompt Hour 16
Jana-Alisha O’Dell It’s always been you. The quiet evening beckons birds home As the sun begins to set, a cool wind overtakes. Night is ready to set in, Tuck in, Tonight’s sunset is quite the show. Light dances on the horizon Sweeping hues of a…
I Refuse
Will you dig beneath the mound? Will you dare to enter down? Will you dance upon our soil? Pour a little of our oil? Will you eat the golden fruit? Will you pluck it from its root? Will you join us in our game? Will…
#6
Dear Joyce I’m watching you daily. The noisy cardinal in your yard. Yeah, that’s me keeping an eye on you. You’re doing great, don’t stop now. Love you Curly, David
Choose Him
The sky was opened like a zipper pulled. The heavens were revealed and a man rode forth on a great white horse. Everyone could see glory all around. Some fell in awe. Some fell in fear. Split second choices were no more. What was and…
My Name is Janus Joy Miller!
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams I was Amanda, and he missed the poignance. There at the end we sat as in family montage. No bows, odd applause, though we had done well. Just a few in the audience, a small black box theater in…
Hour 16 – Condor – Text Prompt
I’ve Fangs of beast But no teeth, Claws but bear no eyes My children might soon go extinct They take your children’s lives Coyote Burned me once And Bobcat hid my wife I have an empty stomach With which to feast on flesh They burned…