I’ve been followed All along Moon shadow, Moon shadow Protected in the Silvery light Moon shadow, Moon shadow Skipping along Bards strumming Their song Moon shadow, Moon shadow Dancing through the night Till the morning light Moon shadow,…
Category: Marathon Poem
Letting The Cat Out
I once had upon the mantelpiece A sand picture housed between 2 glass panels Prized as a child for its innovative charm I owned a tape cassette and listened to a song of moonbeams hidden Adventure revealed in the depth of tone But the picture…
Thin Lines
From sea to shining sea and trinitite in between. By geography and scripture: A holy hungry fortress, bombs bursting in the air, a light unto the nations, bearing gifts to all the Earth like bananas and Japan. First condemned to war, then condemned to expand,…
POINT-OF-AWARENESS PARADOX – Hour 10
POINT-OF-AWARENESS PARADOX half the moon is always full not just one night not just one day half the moon is always full not only what we see and say when we think the moon is dark the dark side has become the light…
#11 Assisted Living
Ring a bell and someone comes Push a button to invite a hello How are you? they ask Doorways large accommodate All those collected years Rolling into the shower Puzzles abound on card tables Holidays are happily posted Birthdays are announced Ladies…
Anachronistic
These journeys we take, together, apart, voyages in time, in the spatio-temporal vastness of possibilities, The return is always sweet. From the morning that broke, like the first morning, you are still afar; and out of synchronicity. And I still wheedle and wheel, a droning…
Breonna.
Breonna. Shot without a case, a human disgrace. How can you say this wasn’t about race? Her body cannot be replaced. Breonna. A mother’s screams fall on deaf ears, as the sirens turn into nightmares. Crucified because her skin wasn’t fair or because you didn’t…
Prompt 10, Hour 10 – Cat Stevens Inspired
Blessed to have the ears to capture moonlight voices and delicate strokes of a guitar. Fortunate, beyond measure, to have the mind ready to draw pictures of words sung into eternity. Proud, of my sensitive self tied up in childhood memories of the…
Hour 9 — Strange Firefly
Beth A. Fleisher Hour 9 Prompt 9: Write a poem containing at least five of the following ten words. If you want it can include all ten words. If this prompt seems at all familiar, it is probably because we do it every year,…
Prompt Ten (10): Shadows of Planets [Hour 10]
IF I LOSE THE PLANET Losing Earth was harsh; First we lost the sun… We had warmth, but did not know from where; The moon had a shadow, and it did provide light. Maybe it kept the warmth, or the planet was warmed… generations ago….