Houseplants are foster children I have purchased none of them Arriving hearing my apologies Unwanted gifts to be kept alive Holding that all things green Belong outdoors where God planted Them on one of those seven days My yard holds nothing premeditated Almost…
Category: Marathon Poem
HOUR 23 Haiku 5
Never did you hate Only love takes prisoners I accept my fate
Cheese (Hour 23)
Cabals of photographers use cheese to make children smile. How they find it’s the only word that makes them show cameras their teeth, I don’t know. Efforts I make to fall in love with cheese tend to race away behind me. Each time I try,…
Cheese (aged Kilmerish)
I think that I shall never eat A poem lovely as most cheese. A cheese whose hungry body is prest Against my taste buds, Mmmm – the best! A cheese that sits with God all day, And learns to sit, and sit, and age; A…
HOUR 22 Haiku 4 Company
Solitude wasted In company of greatest fear A servant of hate
Hour 22
I have not been feeling these last few prompts but that’s what the internet is for ya know. You Friendship is supposed to be two sided Unless it’s with you I guess Cause you wait for me to reach out Knowing I always…
Poems of the forest #thepoetrymarathon #imageprompttwentythree
There are poems in the forest Waiting to be found Among the trees and leaves Fireflies alight to the ground. There are forests in the poems Unexplored, unfound There are poems in the forest Waiting to be found. Branches that those blithe spirits…
say cheese
poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese a great man once wrote hence my attempt to set things right for cabbages and kings have been mentioned in the same poetic line why not cheese and the president surely one eats the other…
prompt 23- image
everything is connected even castles are from an idea tall and majestic full of round rock, and lava its mighty and full radiant in all its glory
Series of Low-Brow Limericks
1. There was once a chick named Jewelz Who rarely followed the rules When she opened her mouth The conversation went south She made idiots look more like fools 2. There was once a broad named Karen Who everyone thought was barren When she opened…