Run #2023poetrymarathon #prompthour21

Running. I hit the ground running and never broke a stride never gave you reason enough to hide. yet you took my trust and tossed it aside, who knew that your betrayal was so easy to find? It was complacent believing you were on my…

Running

Running for my life Past following close behind Don’t look, keep running

Hour 20 – I have run out of routines

I have run out of routines Waking Up [Is less now like a time and more so an estimate, expansive above all else, who knows how many angles of the sun I will miss in my dreaming] Eating Breakfast [Food, too soon, sits in my…

Jackson Brown Would Be Proud

Running on empty Pre-dawn hollowness A shell of my usual self My words brittle, stilted, halting My emotions devoid of feeling Free-floating angst and anger So great, yet so nebulous. I have no core. My thoughts echo in the vastness as they ricochet between scales…

Hour 21: Running

Running out of time There is so much left undone The clock does not stop So much more to be Minutes quickly become hours Grains of sand slip through the hourglass And I watch them slip away Time just keeps running

Hour 20

This one came to my brain really fast. It’s kinda silly and almost is t a poem at all. But hey counting it today!   Hour 20   My worst habit isn’t that bad It’s almost silly really I never tie my shoes before leaving…

23~8

melancholia  is my master memories  longing lost love rudely ripped away just as it was beginning such sadness  memories drown me can I be forgiven  hidden regret colors everything around me wistful fleeting  glimpses of joy stolen happiness leaves my past forever gone away with…

Eneke the bird

African myths have many stories of birds loving rest time Loving the taste of worms and insects, and coming down for them. Eneke the bird has learnt to do the extraordinary “Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he…

Hour 21 – Running

Running Running late Grabbing a coffee And my keys I head out the door Without my lunch Running copies The machine jams All my efforts to fix it Are in vain No math paper for my kids today Running my mouth I reveal a secret…

Hour 21-Duke Dissatisfied

Duke has grown bored. His weird parents playing at their computers for 20 hours plus. He goes from one room to the other. Inside then out, outside, then in. Running, jumping, sleeping Begging for morsels Begging for meals Begging just to beg. I danced with…