Quiet yourself and grow smaller One pill makes you larger The pill you tell men that you cannot take Protection comes in so many forms Like a wallflower trying not to be seen To be plucked pulled cut at the root I don’t dye my…

Hi, everyone! I am honored to participate in the poetry marathon. I feel a bit breathless as I imagine what it will feel like to produce one poem each hour for 24 hours. I know it is a challenge and a feat to complete such…

http://www.financialtechnologyafrica.comRarzack Olaegbe is my name. I am a journalist with over two decades of journalism practice. I have been privileged to report different beats including politics, health, society and entertainment, information technology, telecoms and financial technology for magazines and newspapers including Business in ECOWAS magazine,…

Hello everyone–glad to make your acquaintance! This will be my first poetry marathon, although I’ve been writing poems since I was a kid. Prose, screenplays, academic papers…well, those have taken over most of my writing these last few years, so I want to stretch myself;…

Hello everyone! I’m Ana Marie, and it’s my first time joining The Poetry Marathon from the Philippines. Thanks to Jacob and Caitlin. Thrilled as I am to be part of this exciting event I hope that things will run smoothly on the day itself, and…

Aloha Poets!I am so excited about our upcoming 2020 marathon! I have been working on lists of prompts and topics, as well as people for or about whom I would like to write a poem.Funnily enough, iced water was a great comfort last year, so…

The car is waiting outside Mom calls, “Hurry up, you guys!” Sister runs down the stairs While I try and find my games The sun shines bright outside And the car heats up inside As we drive on the highway Past fields and fields There…

(Before the world, there was a world)   It was dark, but also light It was black, but also white There was nothing But at the same time everything The universe had big plans A new world was about to start Which would last longer…

Don’t stop belivin’ In what you have dreamt For the world is ment To keep you depressing.   Don’t stop belivin’ For after every sunset There is a new hope of sunrise So keep hoping till you become achieving.   Don’t stop belivin’ For it…

One fine morning as I stood in balcony To breathe in the air freshy My eyes caught sight of A pigeon grey-black on the corner pot.   As our sights held each other together She hastly ran and took on flight. This was what everyday…