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Category: Marathon Poem
We Call it Information
and it’s nothing but noise. Several billion by now hands typing, tapping the errant thoughts the endless opinions the word invented six thousand years ago along trading routes, in temples, beneath the tired frenzied eyes that felt strange being human and searched for what to…
She Was Once Kind(Prompt 1)
Her eyes rewind the hands of time, In her mind she would plot the demise, All men in sight, Because of one man who destroyed her pride, Her eyes could rewind the hands of time, She became their muse, Strived to be worshipped, Whilst hurting…
Can we promise each other this?
It’s a long road ahead that you and I will #walk. We may or may not match our stride. We may never ever cross paths. But if we ever do, and if our #masks still hide our #smiles, …can we #promise each other this ?…
Fear
Anxiety swirls in my stomach like an F5 tornado sweat leaks from my palms in age-old embarrassment the thoughts rushing through my brain like seagulls after bread Hot then cold waves wash over my body in a sussurus of fear, shame, guilt. I’ve failed so…
Bahman Moment
We never asked for the multiple overtures from the Bahman bums who took none of his creeds to their grasping chest cavities, but there we were, spreading out the adverts masking as letters, all claiming to know exactly the bind we were in and what…
Introduction
In this time of COVID, please warmly embrace my brief introduction. Not only am I grateful and honored that is the fourth Poetry Marathon of which I have been an active participant, I am a daughter, wife, mother and grandmother. Two years ago, I retired…
Toss and Turns
It was so hard for me to sleep. If the Creator had not created in us the ability to fall asleep, the world would have been filled with sleep junkies: Men and women and girls and boys who are permanently high on the severe dose…
Moonshadow – hour 10, prompt 10
If moonshadow were following me in the gloom i dare not think of what doth loom nor turn my head to see the ghoul or else my limbs would freeze, and who’ll be there to aid, to help me flee the shadows caving in on…
Hello From Del
Well, here it is. I am excited for the adventure to begin. I’ve wanted to do it in the past, but it wasn’t the right time. I believe this is it. It is my first time attempting the marathon, so I’m going for the 24…