beet jacket tremor bayou elbow lightbulb cinnamon bucket elk carport Her cheeks were *beet* red as determination became her She owned it was never easy to leave your comfort zone And start from the scratch She could do this, thus assuring herself She donned a…
Category: Marathon Poem
Abandoned
ABANDONED Abandoned thoughts Unloved,unprotected,unkind I seek freedom Abandoned needs Unhungry, unthirsty, unfit I seek belonging Abandoned feelings Uncertain, unchained, undoubtful I seek out my identity Endlessly
Cry To Heaven
Hour Twenty Inspiration= “Cluster One” Pink Floyd 5:43 Hot are the rivers running through scaled eyes blinded by the serpentine motivations and macabre machinations of the world of today every day lacking the promise of tomorrow. Lord, hear our prayers as we silently wilt our…
2023 Poem Five
Meeting Mothman in the Coffee Shop Is that.. Is that really him? Tall wings of luscious.. Is it feathers? Or fur? Either way, I thought he would be taller and yet I can’t look away from him or his bicycle brake eyes scanning the menu…
Crowd
Faces blur together not a single individual seen moving as one like a school of fish slow, fast young, old shapes, sizes
Code Talkers III
Code Talkers III Collection Of carefully chosen words to Deceive the Enemy and a secret code That saved the Army and other militia. Luck was on our side, the code Kept our Enemies guessing this Radicle Set of indigenous words.
23~11
the pillowcase tiny safety pins old magazines my mother screaming running through the house in agony trying to hold her floppy twisted arm a gift from my father pillowcase from my pillow third grade me was dreaming on now pins to it’s twin lined with…
Universally Acknowledged
It is a truth universally acknowledged That a young couple locked in the hold of a ship For forty days, off the coast of Venice, Are in need of a good book. It is a probability, widely accepted, That this book should feature Stakes no…
(Hour 21) 18.30pm-19.30pm. BOTH PROMPTS: start & end with running + yawning lion
running problems i. Running From a lion-sized Yawn I’m caught Exhausted keeping This misfit mishmash Of survivors running ii. Running argument With Ryan ongoing Never resolved & as for this year’s Nobel Prize nomination Definitely out of the running iii. Running nose Dribbling onto a…
Hour 21
Running scared running low running into running next to running two for one running away running over running under running a meeting running against running out running on borrowed time and just plain running