To the girl that couldn’t wait to get introduced to my family. Do you realize that you left before that happened but, Just in time for me to find a brother in depression, A sister in heartbreak, a father in abandonment And a mother in…
Category: Marathon Poem
The Night you wished you were Dead
The Night you wished you were Dead Scary night – the night I called to know if you’ve won another fight against solitude: wrestling hard has been the only ladder you’ve perfected in life because life never gave you an option. That night, I’d have…
Hour 15 — Where’s Our Plane?
Beth A. Fleisher Hour 15 Prompt 15: There are very few poems about air travel, even though there are a lot about driving, train travel, and subway commuting. Your prompt this hour is to write a poem about a plane trip. Where’s Our…
Hour 15, Prompt 15 – Flighty
You have a curious way with flights without fail a laptop is left behind at security we are too late and the flight has to be rescheduled or the time with the tornado that made our detour trip impossible and, somehow, always on the way…
Suicide by Plane
Said bye to the Mrs and the girlfriend too It’s a long haul flight – got to get this right I’m fighting to sit in Business But it’s cattle class I’m at. Got my sketchpad and pen Ever since I was a little’un I’ve…
Prompt 15: “You Ain’t Going Nowhere”
I’m listening to the Byrds as I nurse my gin and tonic. The airport din doesn’t offer the best accoustics for McGuinn and Co, but the bar I’m sitting in could be extracted from here and plopped down on a street in my town, so…
prompt 13 hour 13: just walking
prompt 13 hour 13 just walking my body is soft – has always preferred reading to running writing to nearly anything else but walking calls me frequently to many spaces where rivers run faster than I ever could on bended knee in worship to…
Half Marathon My Hour 1
I’m running a little behind as life is a thing and wasn’t able to write earlier. But I am getting my writing started now!! And I’m not too far behind. This is my Hour 1 which is Hour 13 of the 24 hours. My first…
THE SKY BEYOND THE CLOUDS – Hour 15
THE SKY BEYOND THE CLOUDS for Jenica Pembroke Jenica said she’d never been on a plane and it broke my heart I wanted to try and give her the pictures piece by piece watching out the porthole window as the ground fades away into…
Handsome Guardian
He was huge, my guardian Sent my way by who knows who Big people no doubt. Concerned with my safety, no doubt. Or perhaps concerned I might explode? Who knows… Mountains of molehills if that be the case. I am not like the terds not…