Prompt 15 Hour 15

Holiday Trip. Aboard I was excited My first time on air Favorite book packed To keep anxiety away And invite calmness With friends,for holidays Several aisle seats Mine near the windows For a glimpse of the clouds With the plane in motion Snacks and drinks…

Choices

Half asleep You get up from your desk Strewn with half eaten snacks And half finished poems   Going out to the balcony You look around desperately For inspiration, an idea, anything When you see it   A road leading to another road The kids…

Writhing on Rob

I was 16,  We were coming home from Germany. Six weeks of milk from the cow on the corner, Basketball with cute boys,  And a Holocaust camp.   It was a long plane ride home. I sat on my best friend’s lap, And writhed on…

Takeoff, Return

I prided myself on not crying at goodbyes. One last hug, one last kiss, a voice, then the stairs to check out, a glance back, down, and you running, long-legged, keeping pace. How I wanted to run back. That smile, warm, bright, left me aching,…

Missed Flight

No one ever booked a flight with the aim to miss it Often passengers miss it Due to oversleeping, traffic delay and misplaced ticket   The taxi driver came to me late Reason for making it late to the airport   In a far-away country,…

Taming Rage

Cage rage To stage the sage Whose change reflects on a page In an age of endless rage…

Only Human (Prompt 9)

Tell me were you disappointed when you finally reached the top and was I what you expected when you peeled the mask off Was it like chasing a fallen star to only find a firefly some fluttering thing with shredded wings not enough light to…

TWA

The day finally was here! I’m flying to London, then Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and then back to Paris. We were on TWA 747 and my dad upgraded us to First Class!  Yahoo! So we had soft blankets, and real pillows. We were lavished with champagne…