Tiger, Tiger flame thrower! Red stripped constellations– fireworks: evergreen and deciduous. You question the ghost man? Take care, and watch the eye roll. Then open your mouth, for it’s yea big…the scream that will follow– erupting from far back, fathomless. It’s a revolution, you know.
Category: Marathon Poem
Prompt 8, Hour 8 – Tyger by William Blake: Reworked!
“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” – William Blake Fickle, prowling feline, you search for a thrill. With hungry eyes cloaked behind shuffling green, Gleaming in the emptiness of the…
Maccan
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright, in the forest – poachers delight! Such is the ferocious feline’s plight, out-gunned, out-numbered, out of sight. What immortal hand or eye, could Orion’s intent defy! Trapped in wire, a caged cry, challenge my perceptions sensory. …
I Can’t Think in Emojis – hour 8, prompt 8
Did you mean what you said in that text I just read? all those thumbs down a run of smirks and frowns I think emojis are a brain fart when I can’t create art or I can’t find the words these tiny pictures are absurd…
Devolution of Expression, Hour 8
We used to sit around campfires Watching shadows flicker Listening to stories Passed down from generation to generation Tales of creation Tales of battles won Of friendship and adventures Of loves found and lost and found again Now we read 240 character tweets Of nothing…
Emoji-ish
Tigers! Tigers! Fire burning bright; Trees caught up in darkness. Do you think I’m joking with what my eyes saw? Ye! That’s how surprises come to and fro.
Season of the Masque
It was a strange time When we wore masques We hid behind them The ones that we chose Whether we realized it or not We took on the masque of truth We took on the masque of the fool We took on the masque of…
I am the walrus
Not the one you’re thinking of but rather a majestic creature just bursting with individuality ready to make it to the other side if we persist. Despite this, I don’t go in the water very often. It’s an empty void with nothing left for me….
Alien World
An atmosphere sapphire blue heavy and opaque. Terrain irregular cliffs, canyons, deserts rocky outcrops vegetated fields. Some of the stones grow and live and eat but oh! Those alien creatures! Small, delicate wings in many sets propel them easily through dense skies, drifting and darting…