Images shift behind my eyes, in front of my eyes, between the layers of color in my irises. In a bad dream, a dual reality – a moving duality reality that recalls splashes of indistinct color on canvas. As a kaleidoscope shuffles it rearranges my…
Category: Marathon Poem
sixteen: sky
Sky So much empty Yet so many glints Of timespace Of time’s pace That your place in it is barely molecular Yet unique Ironic is how difficult To express either extreme and 8 billion beings Each contemplating In their own orbit
Hour 17 text prompt – kaleidoscope
I always wonder whether What I see is real A series of colors And worlds and flowers Just glass and light Sights a mood just right That life must surely live In a moment so bright And then just as quickly It Crushes Smashes Ends…
Kaleidoscope – Hour 17
Nothing seems more magical to a child than to spend some hours with a kaleidoscope. Endless magical scenes unfold as the colors roll and twist and dissolve one into another. There may once have been a purpose for them, but now we only…
Flamingo dreams #17
The pink flamingo Gave me a kaleidoscope That I might better see The repeating patterns Of all mankind And their futility I turned the wheel This way and that Like another little hamster But no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t find the answer…
Hour 17: Acrostic
Pragmatic practices apparently doesn’t work well here, Opportunities await through imagination and creativity, Endless possibilities, Trusting your writing utensils to carry you to depths unknown, Remedies for the heart and mind, Yes this is it, until I comprise another piece
There Have Been No Fireflies
When last did I see a firefly? When I was a child, I remember a preponderance of their flickering every summer. Maybe because I’m long past bartering with my mother to stay outside in the backyard, I no longer have the vantage from which to…
A Poem Puzzle
A Poem Puzzle Our Words little seem dance our whispers to across …
Hour 16: Chance of Rain
High of 92 degrees Low of 54 High likelihood of ending In a puddle on the floor Hot and high humidity At 89 percent Near certainty of winding up In existential dread Expect an inch of snow today ‘Cause fuck you, it’s my forecast To…
Circus
shoulda done read more books every blink is a change- attention shift attention drift like living in a casino, except there’s no money anywhere tapp an app