Hour Three – Not exactly a text prompt Listen to the following song before writing a poem, you can also play it again and write with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5j1AwBaPtk   The Fiddler on the Street   He took his fiddle to the middle of the street The…

Billowing silks shimmer in the light chartreuse, aqua, and summer lemon twist and blend together before being taken away across the sea

Oh, great bean of energy, lend me your spirit to help me write out the next 24 hours.   I offer my body as a tribute to your faux sense of accomplishment. Let your essence invigorate my mind.   Give me the needed drive to…

I kept the sentinels from our scenes in the pocket of my heart strings… tampering the dilly dallying of perfect blushing souls lost to the desert of want from the milky outset of wanton rivers; happy stars I still gallery each strand of bloodied hair…

Not going to lie, You keep running through my mind, Not always constant, Just enough for memories, To flash, and I slightly smile.

(note: This poem arose tangent to the picture prompt, which put me in mind of the Eugene Field poem, which you can read here: https://poets.org/poem/sugar-plum-tree) The Lollypop Sea – A golden shovel after the poem The Sugar-Plum Tree by Eugene Field When we started, it…

A man stood beneath the tree, Waiting it seemed, for me His gaze was soft as diamond His mood as light as iron He had been waiting for me But why beneath this tree?   This tree was like most around it Red leaves and…

Hour 3 – The Smile   he stood listening to the beautiful music played by Cello’s in the Park With the crowd clapping and swaying in time, he smiled at the woman passing by.   smiling back, she extends her arm shy, he mouths “I’m…

Light the Way Wait for me in the stars Between Venus And the war lord of Mars Wait for me in the light Between the dark And the dazzling bright Wait for me until I am near Shining out So my path back to you…

Agent Orange all this red dust in the sky : gets in your eyes : doesn’t irritate or itch : but plays tricks : on what you know is there: but feels like it isn’t : or can’t be  for instance : that crop :…